The open-source Docker container virtualization technology has a new ally today. VMware announced a new partnership with Docker, Google and Pivotal to enable container technology in VMware ...

And moving legacy applications to Docker, enabling them to run on any modern infrastructure, typically cuts costs in half. Those savings result from a substantial increase in application density, ...

With containers such as Docker on Linux platforms starting to gain some momentum as an alternative to virtual machines, managing containers and virtual machines under a common framework is likely to ...

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 ...

VMware has even more up its sleeve for containers, in the areas of security and networking. Granted, I got this from Guido Appenzeller, who's the CTO of VMware's networking and security business unit.

VMware may have pioneered enterprise virtualization, but until Monday it had been relatively quiet when it comes to Docker containers, the popular lightweight form of application virtualization. Now ...