This column will review the key aspects of compute virtualization and application containerization as used in the data center and the cloud. Not familiar with these ideas? If you care about the future ...

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 ...

Catching up on several interesting developments that slipped by due to volume, here’s a look at the TeaVM translator, Nvidia’s Jetson emulator, and Ubuntu’s MicroK8s container... Both hypervisors and ...

The enterprise has grown quite accustomed to virtualization, so comfortable, in fact, that virtualized infrastructure is now routinely used to support mission-critical applications. But you didn’t ...

For its 18th code release, issued today, the OpenStack community is making the software easier to deploy on bare metal. The release, named “Rocky,” takes advantage of the way physical servers are ...

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, ...

There’s a reason why IBM’s YouTube explainer video on “containers vs. virtual machines (VMs)” has 243,000 views and counting. There are still plenty of developers who work with VMs and have just a ...