{"id":5109,"date":"2017-05-02T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/docker-gets-a-new-ceo.html"},"modified":"2017-05-02T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:08:10","slug":"docker-gets-a-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/docker-gets-a-new-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Docker gets a new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There is change in the air<\/a> for Docker<\/a>, the company that, more than anybody else, helped make software containers popular among developers. But while Docker kicked off this movement, it\u2019s now under pressure from the growing ecosystem of Kubernetes<\/a>-based services and other startups that threaten to drown out the earlier leader of this movement. So maybe it doesn\u2019t come as a surprise that after four years at the helm of the company, Docker CEO Ben Golub today announced<\/a>\u00a0he is stepping down.<\/p>\n

Golub will be replaced by Steve Singh, who is joining Docker from SAP. Singh joined SAP after that company acquired Concur, where he was CEO (so blame him if you\u00a0have ever tried to find a hotel in Concur\u2019s laughably bad search interface). He became Docker\u2019s chairman in late 2016.<\/p>\n

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Docker\u2019s new CEO Steve Singh<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there is always some uncertainty about changing roles, I am 100% certain that Steve is the right person for Docker,\u201d Golub writes in today\u2019s announcement (but what else was he going to say in a public statement?).<\/p>\n

Singh took Concur from startup to\u00a0IPO to an $8.3 billion acquisition. It\u2019s worth noting that this isn\u2019t really a case of replacing a startup CEO with a more experienced operator. Golub\u2019s career at Gluster, Plaxo, Avid and Verisign, after all, is impressive in its own right.<\/p>\n

\u201cDocker has the potential to become not only one of the most enduring technology companies, but also a transformational platform, technology, and movement; I can\u2019t think of a better or more qualified individual to lead us to that future than Steve,\u201d writes Golub today.<\/p>\n

Singh takes the reins of Docker at a crucial time for the company. After making the distinction<\/a> between its open source foundation and commercial offerings clearer at its annual developer conference only a few weeks ago, it is now on a path where it needs to aggressively court more\u00a0enterprise users <\/a>and expand its product portfolio or it risks falling behind the growing number of competitors, as much of the core container technologies become commoditized\u00a0thanks to the work of CoreOS, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and various other startups and open source communities.\u00a0Singh has that kind of enterprise experience thanks to his work at Concur and SAP.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that Docker\u2019s investors, which have now put a total of more than $180 million into the company, surely don\u2019t want to see the company \u2014 and their investments \u2014 run into trouble.<\/p>\n

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Docker Team at DockerCon 2017, Austin TX. Photo by Alabastro Photography.<\/p>\n

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