Containers, a different, lightweight take on virtualization, has finally gone mainstream with Linux Containers (LXC) and Docker -- and that spells big changes for server farms, data centers, and the ...

The open source Docker container technology is taking on the server virtualization market, offering what some see as a faster alternative to running full virtual machines over hypervisors. For the ...

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 ...

Few technologies have more disruptive potential than Docker. Although the company and its namesake technology are barely two years old, almost every major cloud vendor has, or is in the process of, ...

This column will review the key aspects of compute virtualization and application containerization as used in the data center and the cloud. Not familiar with these ideas? If you care about the future ...

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about vendors selling bare metal servers to customers. The post was pretty strongly worded, at the time I felt that we were seeing legacy vendors justify their ...

Containers are all the rage today. Microvisors are the new hypervisors and storage startups are scrambling to declare themselves "container-aware." Entire ecosystems are popping up to plug the gaps in ...

The growth in the importance of containers to the IT and developer community has been mirrored inside VMware. For instance, both the vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and Photon Controller platforms ...

More from Mark Russinovich’s Ignite 2025 sessions, detailing software developments that underpin Microsoft’s move to ...