Red Hat Shares — August 2016: Containers

Big innovations like cars, radios—even vacuum cleaners—happened in the early 20th century. Why? The assembly line. It's an infrastructure that supported (even spurred) entrepreneurs' inventions. Without it, these creations might have been stifled.

Similarly, in programming today, innovations made possible by lightweight Linux^® containers are curbed by legacy infrastructure. The pace at which IT innovates is capped by the limits of old servers, virtualization environments, and operating systems. But ripping out your infrastructure isn't the answer. A more practical solution is to update your IT foundation with container-compatible platforms that work across the systems you have and the environments you want to adopt.

You need flexibility and agility, 2 fundamental traits of open source.

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Many of the applications running our world are built on open source. Small startups are adopting containers for their agility, while global tech companies see containers as a powerful DevOps alternative. As container adoption spreads to more businesses, the importance of an open source foundation will only grow.

Learn more about the role of open source in containers and what to look for in a vendor from Paul Cormier, president of Products and Technologies at Red Hat.

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• 52% are using containers in production for new apps.
• 89% of developers surveyed are likely to increase use of containers in the next 12 months.
• 1/3 said release cycles are much faster with containers.
• 74% are shipping new software faster using container technology.

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Amadeus, a leading travel booking provider, created a better foundation for a new app infrastructure and containers. Amadeus expects to decrease system latency for better customer service, increase platform availability, streamline operations through automation, and reduce time to market for new services.

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• Red Hat Virtualization 4