In early July, GitHub deposited 186 kilometers of photographic film, containing 21TB of digitized snapshots of all the public-facing code in its repository, to its underground Arctic Code Vault, located on a Norwegan island in the Arctic Ocean.
Joe Beda, one of its creators, said one reason for the move was reassuring non-VMware developers that Contour's development wouldn't be steered by a single company.
The open source platform may no longer have the ‘next big thing’ status it once had, but it’s very much alive in the private cloud services space.
Of late, IBM hasn't been the strongest supporter of the open source OpenStack cloud platform, but with Red Hat that is changing.
At first glance, it may seem that there's little impact, but containers make applications more portable, making infrastructure less "sticky."