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CoreOS was the first to demonstrate how Docker and containerization could remake Linux. Now Canonical is getting into the game, albeit from a different direction. Canonical’s new project, LXD, or the ...

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Docker Inc. owns one of the most prominent names in the cloud container ecosystem. But a recent report from Cowen and Company named a handful of established cloud players as potential acquirers of ...

Creation of an on-site private cloud for agile software development and IT operations, or DevOps, is one of the primary enterprise use cases for open source technology. Going beyond the hypervisor and ...

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VMware is the most unusual and unexpected player in the industry to ship a Linux distribution. Here is an analysis of what forced the virtualization giant to make this move. Not long ago, VMware was a ...