Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

The release of Windows Server 2016 will bring a new option of building apps based on micro-services that run in Docker and other standard containers. Does that portend the end of the VM? The rise of ...

Virtual machines (VMs) are so firmly entrenched in the datacenter now that it's hard to remember a time when they weren't available. In fact, many younger IT pros may be only vaguely familiar with a ...

With containers such as Docker on Linux platforms starting to gain some momentum as an alternative to virtual machines, managing containers and virtual machines under a common framework is likely to ...

Creation of an on-site private cloud for agile software development and IT operations, or DevOps, is one of the primary enterprise use cases for open source technology. Going beyond the hypervisor and ...

Container instances. Calling docker run on an OCI image results in the allocation of system resources to create a ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. When a Docker container is first explained to you, it's hard not to wonder if these Linux structures ...

VMware has even more up its sleeve for containers, in the areas of security and networking. Granted, I got this from Guido Appenzeller, who's the CTO of VMware's networking and security business unit.

CoreOS was the first to demonstrate how Docker and containerization could remake Linux. Now Canonical is getting into the game, albeit from a different direction. Canonical’s new project, LXD, or the ...

VMware Inc.’s recent foray into the converged infrastructure market is not merely an attempt to gain more control of its ecosystem but part of a broader push to help CIOs retool their operations, ...