Reed Wiedower (pictured), CTO of Washington, D.C.-based New Signature, after Microsoft announced general availability of a new containers tool for its Azure cloud platform that partners say should help accelerate the deployment of container technologies with customers.

"With a container-based approach, we can start to sell a discrete service that includes the cost of acquisition and monetizes it so that the more money a customer makes, the more money a partner makes. It's truly transformative."