Docker, which is based on LXC container technology, has exploded in popularity. While far from the first technology to place applications within smaller, lighter-weight "containers" instead of ...

It seems complicated, but it makes things a lot simpler.

Much of the growth in IT over the last 10 or so years can be attributed in some way or another to virtualization. The key to virtualization is the hypervisor. Whether open source, such as Xen or ...

Choosing a cloud provider may seem like a trivial thing. You could go with the choice that most of the world has already made and pick the clear leader in the cloud space — AWS. However, as the public ...

Are virtual machines (VM) more secure than containers? You may think you know the answer, but IBM Research has found containers can be as secure, or more secure, than VMs. James Bottomley, an IBM ...

In 2015, a multi-vendor hybrid cloud is the only hybrid cloud that will matter, software-defined storage will build a bridge between public and private clouds, and Docker will replace hypervisors as ...

Have you ever spent hours setting up a development environment, only to find that your application behaves differently on another machine? Or perhaps you’ve wrestled with dependency conflicts that ...

VMware is the most unusual and unexpected player in the industry to ship a Linux distribution. Here is an analysis of what forced the virtualization giant to make this move. Not long ago, VMware was a ...