A quick overview of the differences between virtual machines and containers. Steve Tegeler, Director for Systems Engineering at VMware, presents a high-level comparison between virtual machines and ...

The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs ...

One of the prominent features of OpenShift’s latest release is OpenShift Virtualization that brings the ability to orchestrate both virtual machines and containers. The platform makes VMs first-class ...

Catching up on several interesting developments that slipped by due to volume, here’s a look at the TeaVM translator, Nvidia’s Jetson emulator, and Ubuntu’s MicroK8s container... Both hypervisors and ...

We look at block vs file storage for contemporary workloads, and find it’s largely a case of trade-offs between cost, complexity and the level of performance you can settle for.

Virtual machines are extremely easy to set up, use, and replicate. Over the years, I've always had a virtual machine handy for various key reasons, and they've never failed me. So much so that I ...

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 ...

Google LLC today announced that virtual machine support in Anthos is now generally available, allowing customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform.

I’ve been a fan of containers ever since I came across Docker. Between their lightweight nature, decent isolation, and a massive number of images, containers are ideal for deploying a self-hosted ...