Container company Docker has acquired startup SocketPlane and its six-strong team to help add standard networking interfaces to Docker for increased portability of multi-container distributed apps.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Docker, Inc., the corporate sponsor of the open platform for distributed applications, today announced the acquisition of software-defined networking (SDN) startup ...

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

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Linux container company Docker this week said it would acquire SDN start-up SocketPlane, a developer of a native networking stack for Docker software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

In what may set a record for the shortest time between startup and buyout, the software-defined networking (SDN) company SocketPlane has been acquired by Docker Inc. in an effort to shore up its ...

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