Cisco wants to transform into a software company and to further move towards that goal it announced the acquisition of CointainerX, a small start-up formed by engineers from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. The container-as-a-service business creates virtual containers for data centres, for Windows and Linux. The financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. ContainerX didn’t try to hide the excitement. Writing a blog post, co-founder and CEO Kiran Kamity says the company will continue developing a "comprehensive cloud-native stack" for customers. "The Cisco team has been extremely supportive of our plans to accelerate product development as we strive to build… [Continue Reading]