As you may have heard, Hitachi Vantara recently announced the intent to acquire the assets of Waterline Data. Today, that deal has become official and, as Waterline’s founder, let me say we’re super excited about our strategic role in furthering Hitachi Vantara’s vision to become the world’s preferred digital innovation partner.

Container technology promises to usher in the biggest step change in infrastructure economics since server virtualization. By some estimates, customers are saving as much as 50% on infrastructure costs by switching from hosting cloud native applications in their own data centers to hosting containerized versions of those applications in a private, hybrid or public cloud.