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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One term popping up more and more in the cloud space is “containerization.” If you’re-paying attention to the trends in cloud computing, you’ve probably heard about it, or at least about the most ...

No one can dispute the amazing impact that hypervisor-based virtualization has had on the modern data center and its role in enabling cloud computing. A hypervisor provides a complete abstraction of ...

BOSTON -- Many new applications start in containers, but that doesn't mean VMs are falling by the wayside. There are some legacy applications that IT administrators can't deploy in containers, and the ...

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 ...

Containerized applications and microservices have taken the IT and development world by storm in the last few years. In this session, we'll briefly look at the history of how we got to this point and ...