Virtual containers are among the hottest technologies in the software development world today. Containerization is an approach to virtualization in which apps and all their components are packaged up ...

Name a tech company, any tech company, and they’re investing in containers. Google, of course. IBM, yes. Microsoft, check. But, just because containers are extremely popular, doesn’t mean virtual ...

For example, VMs remain useful when running multiple applications together, or when running legacy applications on older operating systems. In addition, some feel that containers are less secure than ...

The release of Windows Server 2016 will bring a new option of building apps based on micro-services that run in Docker and other standard containers. Does that portend the end of the VM? The rise of ...

Containers represent the next generation of virtualization technology for cloud environments. They can best be described as a self-contained unit of software—including application code plus its ...

Two years ago when Frank Macreery started Aptible to help companies host sensitive healthcare data in the cloud, as CTO he decided that containers would play a pivotal role in the company’s operations ...

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 ...

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