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 ...

IT organizations are going to have to get used to the idea that there are multiple types of containers that are optimized for different use cases. For example, there are containers such as Docker that ...

Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, has announced the availability of LXD 4.0 LTS, its machine container hypervisor. This is the third long-term support release of LXD ...

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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 ...

With a collaboration deal announced between HP and Parallels, Parallels is bringing container-based virtualization to Hewlett Packard's Integrity server line, including the largest 64-processor HP ...

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 ...

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 ...