Containers are leading us into the third wave of computing where the fundamental unit of computing is shifting from virtual machines to containers. With the core infrastructure including hypervisors, ...

This saves a ton of time that would otherwise be wasted in dealing with version conflicts, missing dependencies, or subtle ...

In a previous post, I discussed the challenges of integrating Docker containers with VMware. While VMware would prefer you run containers inside a virtual machine (VM), a more common use case for ...

Containers add another layer of virtualization to an already virtualized data environment, but they are by no means a complete replacement for the virtual machine that first broke the dependency ...

Developers love containers. They’re easy to use and fast to start. You can run a lot of them on even simple hardware. Startup overhead has always been a bane of development and testing, and this ...

We often say, “HTTPS is secure,” or “HTTP is not secure.” But what we mean is that “HTTPS is hard to snoop and makes man-in-the-middle attacks difficult” or “my grandmother has no trouble snooping ...

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, ...

Ever since Docker arrived to make containers popular, companies have turned to containers. The inevitable result was virtual machines (VMs) began to decline. According to Diamanti, a bare-metal ...

Enterprises looking to garner more efficiency from their cloud operations are increasingly turning to containers. SDxCentral recently conducted a survey as part of our 2017 Container and Cloud ...

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.