F or years, running Docker on Windows meant allocating multiple gigabytes of RAM to a heavy, full-blown virtual machine (VM), ...

If you had any doubts about just how popular Docker's containers are, the news that VMware is partnering with Docker, Google, and Pivotal to integrate Docker containers into VMware's virtualization ...

VMware may have pioneered enterprise virtualization, but until Monday it had been relatively quiet when it comes to Docker containers, the popular lightweight form of application virtualization. Now ...

A few weeks ago, I switched from Docker to Podman, as the latter provides some extra features for my containerization needs. That said, Docker is still a neat container runtime despite all its faults, ...

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 ...

Docker is hot. Docker is cool. But Docker is nowhere near a sustainable business. Despite being top-of-mind for every startup and a rising number of enterprises, some reports put the company's annual ...

Linux container technology is getting lots of attention for its ability to solve technical challenges, and now VMware is teaming up with Docker and Google to take it deeper into the enterprise. On ...

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 ...

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 ...