It's pretty handy for low-power server nodes ...

Docker containers are lightweight, self-contained packages capable of efficiently running various services. Virtual machines are more robust, emulate full computers, and require more resources, but ...

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 ...

Google LLC today announced that virtual machine support in Anthos is now generally available, allowing customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform.

Linux and Mac users that have a need to periodically access Microsoft Windows will be pleased to know that it is possible to run a full version of Windows in a Docker ...

A virtual machine is a computing resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications. It operates by running one or more virtual “guest” machines on 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.

A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated ...

Rafay Systems, a platform provider for Kubernetes operations, is adding support for running both Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers on Kubernetes through its Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP).