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, ...

Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. He has authored several books. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado. When Amazon was still known more as a bookstore than a technology ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. virtualization-zdnet-joe-mckendrick.jpg Image: Joe McKendrick In a previous post, I discussed the challenges of integrating Docker ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much of the industry seems to agree that containers aren't going to replace virtual machines any time soon. But people are certainly thinking about it. At OpenStack Silicon Valley (OSSV) this past ...

As infrastructure costs increase, small businesses may want to consider how containers can better fit their workloads.