Containers Go Mainstream

At open-source technologies giant Red Hat, executives say it's their company—not Docker—that is the player to beat in containers for the enterprise. Paul Cormier, an executive vice president who heads Red Hat's technology and products organizations, sat down with CRN during Red Hat Summit 2017 in Boston and had plenty to say about the competition around containers. "You need a production-ready environment to really start to deploy [containers] and bet your business on it," Cormier said, "and we're the only one that's proved we can do that."

He added later, "I'm not trashing on Docker specifically. I'm just saying, I haven't seen another container solution from another vendor that I would call a successful commercial Linux vendor."

Following are excerpts of our interview with Cormier.