You know that an event was good when your feet hurt from standing all day. You know that it was excellent when your feet have  passed that stage and you can’t feel them at all. That was DockerCon 2016.

The proverbial digital ink is not yet dry on our GA announcement last month, and here we are at DockerCon only a month later announcing Aqua Container Security Platform v1.1.

The early days in a start-up’s life are always interesting and fun - you focus on building stellar technology, learning the market that you’re in and building the team.

Timed with our emergence out of beta, we’ve renamed the company. Here’s why.

As virtual containers become even more popular, professionals will have only more to talk about and will continue expanding the social presence of the industry. I, for one, enjoy following these leaders and influencers on Twitter, especially those who best show how open source containers improve the DevOps experience.

Security is the enterprise’s foremost concern on its way to production adoption of container technology. However, security is never a one-off deal, and in the context of the still nascent container technology that’s especially true.

Like many of you working in Docker-space, over time I’ve come across a ton of third-party tools that improve management, cleanup, orchestration, development and other container processes.

A month ago we introduced Peekr, Scalock’s free security scanner for container images.

Docker is but a 3-year-old toddler, but this toddler seems to be on steroids… growing at a pace reminiscent of Species (not that Moby Dock would ever turn into Natasha Henstridge, or start seeking humans to mate with!)

This post is the second in a two-part series on the future of containers in the cloud. The post reviews the challenges to bridging containers and the cloud, and offers advice on how to address those challenges. Read the first part on how mainstream use of the cloud has turned the spotlight on the value of containers …