Microsoft and Docker, the company behind the Docker open platform for distributed applications, have inked a partnership to provide Docker with support for new container...

Docke has raised $40 million in a series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Insight Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Jerry Yang also participated. Bill Coughran, who joined Sequoia after eight years as a senior vice president of engineering at Google, will represent Sequoia on the Docker board. Launched in March 2013, Docker is an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications.