February 2015 - Docker Networking, Cloud Security Issues, Sam Ramji and the Future of Cloud Foundry

ActiveState Newsletter - February 2015 Cloud Luminary Fireside Chat: Docker Networking Don't miss our next Cloud Luminary Fireside Chat, emanating live from London prior to Cloud Expo Europe! Guest: Alexis Richardson, Founder & CEO, Weaveworks Date/Time: Tues. March 10th, 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT Entrepreneur and investor Alexis Richardson joins Bernard Golden to discuss the state of Docker and his open source project, Weave, which creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts. Alexis Richardson is the founder of Weaveworks, makers of Weave - a new product for Docker and containerized applications. Previously, Alexis was Head of Product for App Suite & Real Time Intelligence at Pivotal, where he led commercial vFabric products that moved to Pivotal from VMware, including open source projects Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis and Tomcat. Register   Sam Ramji on the Cloud Foundry Foundation and PaaS Watch the recording of Bernard Golden's interview with Sam Ramji, the newly appointed CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. They discussed Sam's initial focus, his goals and the vision for Cloud Foundry as well as the impact Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has for businesses. Below is a recording of the entire Fireside Chat and notable quotes from the new CEO. Watch Now   Forget About PaaS. It's About Enabling Applications Over the last couple of years I have talked to numerous enterprise customers, analysts, industry pundits, and others interested in cloud technologies, and one thing is abundantly clear…Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) seems to mean different things to different people. But the term PaaS is irrelevant--it's just noise. What is relevant, and what is important, is what PaaS does: enable applications! That's what enterprises care about. Read More   Unravelling the Internet of Things: What Does it Really Mean to be on the IoT? We have some great new blogs since our last newsletter - read the latest from the Cloud Foundry CAB meeting, Bernard Golden expands on the Cattle vs. Pets meme to include chickens, find out more about Docker and its challenges for Enterprise IT and John Wetherill discusses 18 cloud security issues that will keep you up at night! Read More   Microservices Tips & Tricks Learn how to successfully transition to a microservices-based architecture and, ultimately, how to accelerate and innovate your application development! Watch Now   Going to DockerCon? See You There We'll be at DockerCon so stop by and learn how we've incorporated Docker containers into Stackato. If you can't make it there, you can also visit us at Cloud Expo Europe in March, the Cloud Foundry Summit in May or maybe join us in Vancouver for OpenStack Summit this year.  Check out the list of events we'll be attending. Learn More   Keep up to date on all ActiveState news! Click here to read the complete newsletter   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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