Containers are all the rage among developers, who use the open source software to build, test and run applications. But the technology, offered by companies such as Docker and CoreOS, isn’t on the radar of most Fortune 500 CIOs, suggesting that it has a ways to go before it gains traction in large enterprises. That will change as CIOs swap legacy environments for cloud infrastructure and refashion their IT departments under agile and DevOps principles, experts say.
Virtualization made computing more efficient by enabling companies to run multiple operating systems on a single server.
