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 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 ...

This column will review the key aspects of compute virtualization and application containerization as used in the data center and the cloud. Not familiar with these ideas? If you care about the future ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few technologies have more disruptive potential than Docker. Although the company and its namesake technology are barely two years old, almost every major cloud vendor has, or is in the process of, ...

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 ...

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 ...