A quick overview of the differences between virtual machines and containers. Steve Tegeler, Director for Systems Engineering at VMware, presents a high-level comparison between virtual machines and ...

Containers are a serious and emerging contender as a method of application delivery. Although they are by no means in use universally yet, most enterprises have deployed containers somewhere or are ...

Virtual machines are extremely easy to set up, use, and replicate. Over the years, I've always had a virtual machine handy for various key reasons, and they've never failed me. So much so that I ...

The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs ...

In real life, many companies just don’t see a business case for bleeding-edge everything, and the anatomy of a modernized application isn’t always what cloud-native purists dream about. This is why ...

One of the prominent features of OpenShift’s latest release is OpenShift Virtualization that brings the ability to orchestrate both virtual machines and containers. The platform makes VMs first-class ...

Hardware virtualization using virtual machines (VMs) has several use cases in embedded systems, ranging from workload consolidation to running applications on legacy operating systems.

Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. He has authored several books. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado. When Amazon was still known more as a bookstore than a technology ...

It’s not always the case, but there are circumstances when it’s important to back up Docker and other containers to avoid costly loss. Containers are breaking backups around the world, but there are ...