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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher ...

Explore the advantages of running Windows 11 in a Docker container for development and testing. Learn how to set up and optimize your containerized Windows environment.

AUSTIN, Texas — At the Dockercon 2017 conference today Docker and Microsoft revealed they are working together to make Linux containers available on both Windows and the Azure cloud. Using a new Linux ...

How small can you make a Docker image? These tiny (and even super-tiny) base images pack a surprising amount of punch for their size. Docker images can get pretty bulky if you’re not careful. Your ...

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 ...