virtual machines
Survey Finds Containers Forcing IT Platform Decisions
A survey published today by Diamanti, a provider of bare-metal servers optimized for containers, finds that nearly half (47 percent) of IT leaders surveyed said they plan to deploy containers in a ...
A Pragmatic Guide to Container Security
Developers have long been chasing the dream of being able to write an application once and having it run anywhere. Despite valiant attempts over the years, we’ve never quite succeeded. But over ...
New Relic Provides Kubernetes Support in Beta
New Relic announced this week that it is extending its monitoring capabilities to include the ability to peer inside Kubernetes clusters. Ramon Guiu, director of product management at New Relic, says the ...
Will Docker Ever Totally Kill Virtual Machines?
Docker containers are everywhere. Kubernetes is a household word (in geek households, at least). Yet the question remains: Will containers ever totally displace virtual machines? That’s a question worth asking as Docker’s ...
VMware Advances Container Case
VMware has advanced its campaign to make containers an extension of its virtual machine environment by making it simpler to deploy VMware Integrated Controllers (VIC). VIC enables IT organizations to deploy Docker ...
OpenStack Foundation Launches Kata Container Project
The OpenStack Foundation announced this week that it is leading an effort to combine two existing open source projects to create a Kata class of containers that can be deployed on a ...
Attention, Enterprises: Only You Can Secure Your Containers
The open-source world is quickly taking large strides into containerization, specifically consolidating its efforts behind solutions such as Kubernetes. Containers increasingly are becoming attractive options for running applications, thanks in large part ...
Using CI/CD Over Containerization to Drive Down Pre-Production Costs
Let’s look at traditional, linear application development process. It follows a sequential methodology, which means the bugs that are present in the current build will have to wait for the next build ...
VMs, Serverless, LXC and Beyond: What is the Opposite of Docker?
You know what Docker is. But what is Docker not? What is the opposite of Docker? There are several ways to think about that question, all of which help to highlight Docker’s ...
For Portability, VMs Still Beat Docker Containers
Docker containers have many advantages. Arguably, portability is not one of them. Here’s why containers are less portable than virtual machines. Defining Portability Portability means the ability to move an application—in other ...
