This column will review the key aspects of compute virtualization and application containerization as used in the data center and the cloud. Not familiar with these ideas? If you care about the future ...

Application design has shifted dramatically in the past few years. Virtualization continues to be the primary foundation for many legacy systems, but organizations are increasingly building new ...

Containers have captured the imagination of the enterprise in recent months, and no one is more enthusiastic than VMware. The virtualization company, in fact, led some of the initial research into ...

Containers are hot, but virtualization adoption remains on the rise within the enterprise, according to recent Red Hat research. The survey of more than 900 enterprise IT pros found businesses are ...

As the virtualization of U.S. defense agencies commences, the technology’s many attributes – and drawbacks -- are becoming apparent. Virtualization has enabled users to pack more computing power in a ...

The difference between containers and VMs is primarily in the location of the virtualization layer and the way OS resources are used. Containers and VMs are simply different ways of provisioning and ...

It can do more than just store all your files.

I had an interesting discussion with Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson, director of product management, about whether containers are competitive or complementary with virtual machines (VMs). From my ...

Containers are changing the way developers architect, build, test and deploy cloud-based applications. At the Container Summit held yesterday in New York, the convergence of Docker, microservices and ...

The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. That is the thinking of Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux project more than a decade ago and head of ...

The open source Docker container technology is taking on the server virtualization market, offering what some see as a faster alternative to running full virtual machines over hypervisors. For the ...

Few technologies have more disruptive potential than Docker. Although the company and its namesake technology are barely two years old, almost every major cloud vendor has, or is in the process of, ...