What makes this important, even vital, news to the larger world of system administrators, datacenter managers, and cloud architects, is that Google, Red Hat, and Parallels are now helping build the ...

As an alternative to virtual machines, containers on Linux systems have been slowly gaining traction as of late. Containers essentially split operating systems into two components. The lower level ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

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Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon. The move, which was unveiled at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, ...

Red Hat's platform business vice president Jim Totton believes the current focus on containers could signal the growth of an alternative type of computing architecture — but says it's not yet clear ...

Linux-based container infrastructure is an emerging cloud technology based on fast and lightweight process virtualization. It provides its users an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux ...

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

Fortunately, there are currently no reports of any of the three bugs being actively abused in the wild, and runC developers ...

Kubernetes, the container management solution originally open sourced by Google, is deemed ready for mainstream use as it reaches version 1 today. Alongside this software versioning milestone, Google ...