In a previous post, I discussed the challenges of integrating Docker containers with VMware. While VMware would prefer you run containers inside a virtual machine (VM), a more common use case for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two years ago when Frank Macreery started Aptible to help companies host sensitive healthcare data in the cloud, as CTO he decided that containers would play a pivotal role in the company’s operations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Docker is the new kid on the virtualization and containerization block. The technology started out as a project of The Next Platform-as-a-service company dotCloud in 2013. It very quickly became the ...

Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon Web Service sell virtual machines. EC2 revenue is expected to surpass $1B in revenue this year. That's a lot of VMs. It's not hard to see why there is such ...

VMware executives demonstrated new virtualization technologies designed to run in the data centers of the future at the company’s annual VMworld conference. VMware showed off a new capability of ...