Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...

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 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 ...

Docker Desktop features a simplified security context that masks many errors and failures behind the veil of a VM. Even though logs exist, diagnosing issues is difficult, and most problems are solved ...

1. Container use will continue its rapid rise. With downloads of Docker images having risen from 67 million in December 2014 to 1.2 billion just a year later, that containers will become the prevalent ...

Containers are all the rage in the software development and DevOps worlds. They increase hardware utilization efficiency, improve infrastructure performance and help with software testing. Docker has ...

With major IT trends like the cloud, popularity builds over a period of years—waxing and waning but moving inexorably forward. Other trends take the enterprise world by storm, seeming to come out of ...

Containers are a hot technology, and the one currently burning brightest is Docker; it's the default starting point for admins considering using containers in their enterprise. But as with any new ...

Have you ever spent hours setting up a development environment, only to find that your application behaves differently on another machine? Or perhaps you’ve wrestled with dependency conflicts that ...

Cisco Systems this week rolled out new software releases for its Nexus 9000 switches and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) SDN that feature enhanced integration with VMware environments and ...

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 ...