Best Runtime Software
Container runtime solutions enable container usage by providing APIs and abstracting technical components. They facilitate the execution of container lifecycle commands against each container instance. Runtime environments couple the configuration files with the actual files that are necessary to execute the application. Companies use these tools to launch applications and manage the container application lifecycles. With container runtimes specifications, companies can specify how file systems are unpacked, built, and configured. They allow developers to reduce system overhead, share resources, and enforce access capabilities.
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Best Runtime Software At A Glance
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Red Hat Runtimes is a collection of cloud-native runtimes for developing Java™ or JavaScript applications on OpenShift. It provides portability across multiple cloud infrastructures, allowing the deve
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- 47% Enterprise
- 28% Mid-Market
297,275 Twitter followers
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IBM Storage Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system. It is comprised of an object store, block store, and a distributed file system.
- Information Technology and Services
- 33% Enterprise
- 33% Mid-Market
709,117 Twitter followers
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GlusterFS is an open source, distributed storage system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.
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- 44% Small-Business
- 33% Mid-Market
297,275 Twitter followers
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Apache Karaf provides dual polymorphic container and application bootstrapping paradigms to the Enterprise.
- 33% Enterprise
- 33% Mid-Market
65,738 Twitter followers
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- an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability.
- Computer Software
- 55% Small-Business
- 36% Enterprise
265 Twitter followers
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Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF, and Karaf into a powerful runtime platform you can use to
- 38% Enterprise
- 31% Mid-Market
65,738 Twitter followers
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Nexenta Systems offers NexentaStor, a platform delivering ultra-scalable, cloud and virtualization-optimized storage solutions.
- 50% Mid-Market
- 50% Small-Business
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Diego is Cloud Foundry's container management system, responsible for scheduling, running, and monitoring application instances and tasks. It ensures applications are efficiently distributed across vi
- 67% Mid-Market
- 33% Small-Business
75,775 Twitter followers
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From our humble beginnings through today, Quobyte has been empowering customers by providing real software storage so that they can keep up with the ever-increasing amounts of data in today’s data-dri
- 60% Mid-Market
- 40% Small-Business
416 Twitter followers
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CRI-O is an implementation of the Kubernetes CRI (Container Runtime Interface) to enable using OCI (Open Container Initiative) compatible runtimes. It is a lightweight alternative to using Docker as t
- 100% Mid-Market
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Diamanti is an appliance built to combine the ease of hyperconverged infrastructure with the unparalleled performance of bare-metal containers.
- 100% Small-Business
701 Twitter followers
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Payara Cloud is the next generation of cloud native application runtime. It offers a flexible and powerful way to easily run your Jakarta EE apps on the cloud. Simply select your WAR, click deploy, an
- 50% Mid-Market
- 50% Small-Business
10,127 Twitter followers
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Sheepdog is a distributed object storage system for volume and container services and manages the disks and nodes intelligently. Sheepdog features ease of use, simplicity of code and can scale out to
- 50% Enterprise
- 50% Small-Business
96,312 Twitter followers
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Springpath is the pioneer in hyperconvergence software, turning standard servers of choice into a single pool of compute and storage resources. The Springpath Data Platform eliminates the need for net
- 50% Enterprise
- 50% Small-Business
582 Twitter followers
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edgeEngine is a downloadable runtime software that enables smart devices to act as a cloud servers when plausible. the engine works on any smart device with any OS across any network and connected to
- 100% Small-Business
