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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon. The move, which was unveiled at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, ...

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 ...

If you want to make containers under Linux, plenty of high-level options exist. [Lucavallin] wanted to learn more about how containers really work, so he decided to tackle the problem using the ...

In front of a crowd at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, Microsoft showed off a new Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016. The move would break down a fundamental wall in ...

The new container and container image paradigm seems to be just right as companies struggle to meet demand for applications that expand business processes across all digital platforms Linux containers ...

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 ...

State and local governments’ IT departments increasingly rely on DevOps practices and agile development methodologies to improve service delivery and to help maintain a culture of constant ...

You’ve always been able to run containers on a variety of operating systems: Zones on Solaris; Jails on BSD; Docker on Linux and now Windows Server; OpenVZ on Linux, and so on. As Docker in particular ...