What makes this important, even vital, news to the larger world of system administrators, datacenter managers, and cloud architects, is that Google, Red Hat, and Parallels are now helping build the ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

Red Hat's platform business vice president Jim Totton believes the current focus on containers could signal the growth of an alternative type of computing architecture — but says it's not yet clear ...

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Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux ...

Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher ...

In front of a crowd at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, Microsoft showed off a new Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016. The move would break down a fundamental wall in ...

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 ...

Windows 10: Containers are the future, and here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent With two use cases for its containers, and five different container models, it would seem that ...