virtual machines
Twistlock Extends Container Security Platform to VMs
Twistlock announced it has extended the reach of its container security platform to include support for virtual machines running on-premises or in public clouds. In addition, version 19.03 of the company’s namesake ...
The Rise of Bare-Metal Kubernetes Servers
While most instances of Kubernetes today are deployed on virtual machines running in the cloud or on-premises, there is a growing number of instances of Kubernetes being deployed on bare-metal servers. The ...
Red Hat Survey Sees Major Spike in Container Adoption
Although there’s a lot of interest in all things related to containers, mainstream adoption among enterprise IT organizations is still in its early days. But a recent survey of 400 customers conducted ...
Kubernetes vs. Docker: A Primer
The differences and similarities between two of the most influential open source projects of 2018. Kubernetes versus Docker is a topic that has been raised numerous times in the cloud computing industry ...
Why You Should Incorporate AIOps Into Your Container Strategy
If you’ve been paying attention to container adoption in recent years, you’ve witnessed its steady growth. According to a report from Diamanti, 44 percent of the surveyed IT leaders plan to switch ...
VMware Acquires Heptio to Add Kubernetes Expertise
VMware announced it is acquiring Heptio as part of an ongoing effort to extend its reach into clusters based on Kubernetes. Announced at VMworld Europe 2018 conference, the acquisition adds several Kubernetes ...
SOA vs. Microservices Monitoring
Some look at microservices as an extension of service-oriented architecture (SOA), and some would say the differences are too numerous to associate them together. Whichever end of this spectrum you’re on, there ...
Container-Based Database Platforms: Fueling DevOps
Database systems traditionally have relied on rather complex, OS-specific clustering technology to provide high availability. Depending on vendor and configuration, these technologies included shared storage devices, transaction-based replication, storage replication or some ...
Deciding Which – and How Many – Workloads to Containerize
No matter how popular containers become, the reality is that they are going to coexist with virtual machines and bare-metal servers at most organizations. They won’t totally replace older forms of infrastructure ...
Red Hat Makes Case for Cloud Native Virtualization
Red Hat is taking an effort to encapsulate virtual machines with containers to the next level by making available a developer preview that provides access to an implementation of the open source ...