From a security perspective, containers are the Wild West – full of exciting possibilities, but also unfamiliar dangers. A study out of Forrester points to this mix of hopes and fears. In the report, ...

Otherwise, you can also deploy typical Docker and Podman containers inside virtual machines – and that’s precisely how I’d ...

Are virtual machines (VM) more secure than containers? You may think you know the answer, but IBM Research has found containers can be as secure, or more secure, than VMs. James Bottomley, an IBM ...

Virtual machines (VMs) and containers have their place in datacentres, enabling enterprises to ship software quickly while abstracting applications from the underlying infrastructure. So, it isn’t ...

Docker software containers are seeing increased enterprise adoption at the expense of older virtualization technology platforms, according to a new survey from bare-metal container company Diamanti ...

What exactly is a container and what makes it different -- and in some cases better -- than a virtual machine? To answer this question, Joey explains why we ever needed containers in the first place.

If you want to stop someone from driving a car, you can take away the keys. Quick, easy and effective. Alternatively, removing the wheels and engine will work, too. A container is an OS extension that ...

VMware Inc. made a wide range of announcements this week that advance its competitive positioning in multicloud computing. One of those announcements stands out as a classic “bet the business” gambit: ...

We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container ...

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