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 ...

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 ...

Network virtualization has emerged as a key tool for injecting flexibility into enterprise networks. Nowhere is that flexibility more needed than when an enterprise IT organization moves to embrace ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenStack community today released Newton, the 14th version of the most widely deployed open source software for building clouds. New features in the Ironic bare ...

Containerization as a concept, and Docker in particular, has received a great deal of attention in the virtualization tools and cloud computing space recently, yet the promise of this lightweight, ...

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 ...

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 ...