Much of the growth in IT over the last 10 or so years can be attributed in some way or another to virtualization. The key to virtualization is the hypervisor. Whether open source, such as Xen or ...

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Docker is making waves again. Just this week, Google Inc. launched its cloud-based Docker-as-a-service called “Container Engine”, which is now available on its Google Compute Engine platform. And now, ...

Hypervisors, also known as virtual machine monitors (VMMs), are software that create and run virtual machines (VMs). They allow a single physical computer to support multiple VMs by sharing resources ...

In 2015, a multi-vendor hybrid cloud is the only hybrid cloud that will matter, software-defined storage will build a bridge between public and private clouds, and Docker will replace hypervisors as ...

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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 ...

Most technologists have heard about software containers (or simply “containers”) – a technology that became popularized by Docker, which is an open platform for building, shipping and running ...

Virtualization is no longer merely the realm of the hypervisor and its virtual machines. The microvisor and its containers are firmly a part of virtualization today, and this isn't going to change.