Virtual machines and containers are both tools frequently used by developers to develop, test, and deploy software. On paper, they share many similarities: both run within a host operating system, ...

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, ...

Building embedded system software can be challenging given the wide range of constraints from the amount of available memory to hardware security capabilities. Technologies like hypervisors, ...

Startup Platform9 envisions the data center of the future as a private cloud running a mix of virtual machines and Linux containers, side by side. Many experts at the leading virtualization vendor, ...

At this week’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple introduced container machines: persistent virtual machines running Linux. A report at The Register says that developers using macOS, as with those ...

When you’re convinced that it is time to move business applications away from bare metal servers, should you choose virtual machines (VMs) or containers and why? To learn more check out this free ...

HI! I'm Elliot Alexander, a London-based Computer Scientist with a background in software engineering. I've worked across the security and high-performance computing space, and am experienced in all ...

The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs ...

The benefits go way beyond speed ...