As the virtualization of U.S. defense agencies commences, the technology’s many attributes – and drawbacks -- are becoming apparent. Virtualization has enabled users to pack more computing power in a ...

Heterogeneous datacenters are the rule rather than the exception these days, and Microsoft is increasing its efforts to acknowledge that reality. Windows servers work side-by-side with their Linux ...

The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. That is the thinking of Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux project more than a decade ago and head of ...

Red Hat has announced a new application certification program: LXC containerized applications. This Red Hat Container Certification (RHCC) program ensures that application containers built using Red ...

Linux vendor Red Hat has been working toward the next major release of its flagship platform for much of the last two years and is now gearing up for the home stretch. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 ...

Virtualization is a technology offering an abstraction layer between software and hardware. It can emulate a hardware platform in order to provide the operating system abstractions of various ...

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Docker Desktop features a simplified security context that masks many errors and failures behind the veil of a VM. Even ...

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 ...

Linux containers have become the standard for how server-side applications are built, tested, and deployed. When deploying server-side workloads at scale, they need to run in different environments.