There’s a reason why IBM’s YouTube explainer video on “containers vs. virtual machines (VMs)” has 243,000 views and counting. There are still plenty of developers who work with VMs and have just a ...

What exactly is a container and what makes it different -- and in some cases better -- than a virtual machine? To answer this question, Joey explains why we ever needed containers in the first place.

In a story I wrote for Computerworld in January, which was a review of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, I mentioned Windows Server’s new support for Hyper-V containers that had been added to ...

The release of Windows Server 2016 will bring a new option of building apps based on micro-services that run in Docker and other standard containers. Does that portend the end of the VM? The rise of ...

Developers and students are increasingly turning to Docker containers and virtual machines to create consistent, reproducible, and isolated coding environments. These setups eliminate dependency ...

Are virtual machines (VM) more secure than containers? You may think you know the answer, but IBM Research has found containers can be as secure, or more secure, than VMs. James Bottomley, an IBM ...

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We all get tempted to try that new app or the OS everyone’s talking about. It’s fun, but testing new software on your main system is risky. A lot can go wrong. You might introduce security issues, ...

From a security perspective, containers are the Wild West – full of exciting possibilities, but also unfamiliar dangers. A study out of Forrester points to this mix of hopes and fears. In the report, ...

Why Do Kubernetes and Containers Go Hand in Hand with Machine Learning? As an increasing number of enterprises ride the wave of digitization that has swept the current IT landscape, an amalgamation of ...

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