In a previous post, I discussed the challenges of integrating Docker containers with VMware. While VMware would prefer you run containers inside a virtual machine (VM), a more common use case for ...

Every major provider of computing software, hardware and cloud services, along with many newcomers, see containerization as the future architecture for developing and sharing applications across OSes, ...

VMware recently updated its vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) platform with a few additions that while admittedly “minor” continue to show how the company is pivoting toward the container market.

There’s few more exciting topics in infrastructure software than containerization at the moment, and with good reason too. As an easy-to-use and lightweight alternative to virtualization, there’s been ...

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman took a jab at longtime partner VMware earlier this week, suggesting the rise of Linux containers would eventually make the virtualization software vendor ...

VMworld is as big and popular as ever, with legions of faithful swarming to San Francisco to see what the virtualization giant and its ecosystem of third-party developers has in store for the coming ...

Having made its fortunes virtualizing the X86 servers at some 500,000 customers worldwide, there is no bigger threat to the continued financial success of server virtualization and cloud player VMware ...

As the hype about containers has mounted over the past year, it has raised questions about what this technology – which is for packaging applications – means for traditional management and ...

People once wondered whether VMware Inc. would ever embrace containers because they could be seen as a threat to the VMware cash cow, the virtual machines (VMs) created by its hypervisor, ESXi. In ...

They let you test new software without setting your OS on fire ...

Pivotal, VMware and Google have teamed up on a containerization project that the companies say should simplify creating, deploying and managing container projects at scale. The companies are taking ...

Every major provider of computing software, hardware and cloud services, along with many newcomers, see containerization as the future architecture for developing and sharing applications across OSes, ...