Containers are here. And it doesn’t mater whether or not containers are a transitional technology (they are, as our JP Morgenthal covered in Containers are designed for an antiquate application architecture) until all applications are designed for cloud and web-scale, containers will be part of the cloud and virtualization scene. Right now, containers are white hot. And as you’ve seen here in the past month, containerization was an editorial focus for us throughout March.
To give you an idea of how popular containers are right now, consider…

Written byGeorge V. HulmeGeorge V. Hulme is an award-winning, internationally recognized business and information security technology writer with more than 20 years of experience covering business, technology, and IT topics. From March 2000 through March 2005, he served as senior editor at InformationWeek magazine, where he covered the IT security and homeland security beats; he has continued contributing to InformationWeek as a security blogger since. His work has appeared in CSO Online, Computerworld, Network Computing, Government Computer News, Network World, TechWeb, VARBusiness, and Dark Reading, among dozens of other technology and trade publications, and he has been recognized with regional Azbee Awards of Excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He has contributed to devopsy.kinsta.cloud since 2014 as a founding member of its editorial team, and has served as founding editor at Security Boulevard since 2016, where his reporting centers on cybersecurity analysis, industry trends, regulatory changes, and emerging threats. He also wrote extensively for Techstrong.ai on enterprise AI and MLOps adoption. Today, when it comes to agentic AI and AI governance, digital transformation strategy, CIO/CMO leadership, go-to-market and revenue-organization redesign, and enterprise data strategy for a C-suite audience, Hulme's primary and most active outlet is Techstrong Group's Digital CxO.