Containers are leading us into the third wave of computing where the fundamental unit of computing is shifting from virtual machines to containers. With the core infrastructure including hypervisors, ...

Developers love containers. They’re easy to use and fast to start. You can run a lot of them on even simple hardware. Startup overhead has always been a bane of development and testing, and this ...

We often say, “HTTPS is secure,” or “HTTP is not secure.” But what we mean is that “HTTPS is hard to snoop and makes man-in-the-middle attacks difficult” or “my grandmother has no trouble snooping ...

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 ...

Ever since Docker arrived to make containers popular, companies have turned to containers. The inevitable result was virtual machines (VMs) began to decline. According to Diamanti, a bare-metal ...

Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author’s employer and has been edited and approved by Network World editors. From certain angles, ...

Enterprises looking to garner more efficiency from their cloud operations are increasingly turning to containers. SDxCentral recently conducted a survey as part of our 2017 Container and Cloud ...

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 ...

In a little over four years' time, the project born from Google's internal container management efforts has upended the best-laid plans of VMware, Microsoft, Oracle, and every other would-be king of ...

Information technology has always been a black and white world where decisions are between option A and option B, experts spend hours arguing over which technology is going to win the supremacy battle ...