Startup ContainerX is fervently working toward to make its enterprise-focused container management platform generally available by early June. The San Jose-based company came out of stealth at DockerCon Barcelona in November and has since been releasing a beta a month.
The company aims to differentiate itself in the ever-more-crowded container-management segment with two pieces of IP: Elastic Clusters and Container Pools, which combined, can allocate infrastructure to container clusters based on the pre-defined priority level and the current utilization pattern of resources.
“We would be humbled if people thought of us as vSphere for containers,†said company CEO Kiran Kamity. He says that’s what vSphere and Hyper-V have been doing in the world of virtual machines, but adds, “a platform like that is missing from the world of containers.â€
