As the virtualization of U.S. defense agencies commences, the technology’s many attributes – and drawbacks -- are becoming apparent. Virtualization has enabled users to pack more computing power in a ...

Containerized applications and microservices have taken the IT and development world by storm in the last few years. In this session, we'll briefly look at the history of how we got to this point and ...

Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executabl ...

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No one can dispute the amazing impact that hypervisor-based virtualization has had on the modern data center and its role in enabling cloud computing. A hypervisor provides a complete abstraction of ...

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.

That is, Kata Containers provides a secure container runtime with lightweight VMs. These feel and act like containers but come with VM's stronger workload isolation. It relies on AMD SVM and Intel ...

Container technologies are driving enterprise innovation as companies shift from traditional virtualization to more scalable, container-based architectures. The growing adoption of AI and machine ...

(1) The term may erroneously refer to traditional virtualization methods rather than the technique described below (see virtual machine). (2) A method for splitting a server into multiple partitions ...