IDG Contributor Network: Elastic cloud apps are great, but how do we protect the containers that power them?
Increasingly, organizations are recognizing—and taking advantage of—the benefits of cloud-based apps.
The compute, storage and I/O cloud infrastructure is dynamic, allowing for new virtual resources to be created and made available to the application at a moment’s notice. Also, each cloud application is componentized into a number of container functional units that can be added, deleted or changed as needed.
This latter point is the buzz of our industry—containerization.
As we march into a world of dynamic containerized applications, however, we need to keep in mind that there are subtle differences between them and their static virtual machine (VM) predecessors.
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