Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

With containers such as Docker on Linux platforms starting to gain some momentum as an alternative to virtual machines, managing containers and virtual machines under a common framework is likely to ...

If you had any doubts about just how popular Docker's containers are, the news that VMware is partnering with Docker, Google, and Pivotal to integrate Docker containers into VMware's virtualization ...

Creation of an on-site private cloud for agile software development and IT operations, or DevOps, is one of the primary enterprise use cases for open source technology. Going beyond the hypervisor and ...

Portland-based software-automation firm Puppet today announced tighter integrations with virtualization firm VMware and container powerhouse Docker. The announcements came in conjunction with ...

VMware has even more up its sleeve for containers, in the areas of security and networking. Granted, I got this from Guido Appenzeller, who's the CTO of VMware's networking and security business unit.

Virtual machines (VMs) are so firmly entrenched in the datacenter now that it's hard to remember a time when they weren't available. In fact, many younger IT pros may be only vaguely familiar with a ...

VMware Inc.’s recent foray into the converged infrastructure market is not merely an attempt to gain more control of its ecosystem but part of a broader push to help CIOs retool their operations, ...