Docker containers are lightweight, self-contained packages capable of efficiently running various services. Virtual machines are more robust, emulate full computers, and require more resources, but ...

From a security perspective, containers are the Wild West – full of exciting possibilities, but also unfamiliar dangers. A study out of Forrester points to this mix of hopes and fears. In the report, ...

There’s a reason why IBM’s YouTube explainer video on “containers vs. virtual machines (VMs)” has 243,000 views and counting. There are still plenty of developers who work with VMs and have just a ...

Virtual machines (VMs) and containers have their place in datacentres, enabling enterprises to ship software quickly while abstracting applications from the underlying infrastructure. So, it isn’t ...

That is, Kata Containers provides a secure container runtime with lightweight VMs. These feel and act like containers but come with VM's stronger workload isolation. It relies on AMD SVM and Intel ...

Platform9 Systems Inc. today added support for KubeVirt, an interface for running virtual machines alongside the encapsulated software environments called containers, to its platform for managing ...

A virtual machine is a computing resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications. It operates by running one or more virtual “guest” machines on a ...

VMware Inc. made a wide range of announcements this week that advance its competitive positioning in multicloud computing. One of those announcements stands out as a classic “bet the business” gambit: ...