Docker, the company behind the rapidly growing open source container project, announced they raised $95 million in a Series D round of funding. This round included a large number of financial services companies including Goldman Sachs, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capitol; this was a result of the growing popularity of Docker in financial services IT. Docker still has plenty of money remaining from their Series B round, but they chose to continue with this round to build off their momentum and to give the company the ability to scale when needed. Docker is currently investing heavily in improving network security and storage tools as evidenced by the company’s recent acquisition of SocketPlane: a company that developed Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools for Docker.
