In recent months, the rise of containers as a lighter-weight alternative to virtual machines has emerged as a major challenger to VMware, the dominant provider of virtual machines inside the ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

Container infrastructure has gone from a niche technology favored by tech-savvy developers and cloud services to a mainstream enterprise deployment environment with stunning speed, however, what’s ...

The open-source Docker container virtualization technology has a new ally today. VMware announced a new partnership with Docker, Google and Pivotal to enable container technology in VMware ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...