A major form of confusion about containers says that they're a next-generation, lightweight replacement for VMs. But container advocates say that's never been the goal Repeat after me: Containers are ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. This article is more than 10 years old. When Docker launched a year or so ago, it ...

Vagrant and Docker both provision resources needed to support cloud-native deployments, though they focus on different parts of the deployment stack. Developers use Vagrant to provision VMs upon which ...

The recent controversy over Joyent’s stewardship of Node.js has made it easy to forget about the company’s other cloud and container projects. With its latest project, Joyent joins the ranks of ...

I like the easy replacement feel of Docker, but I've never liked managing the containers. Something always felt missing, and ...

Cue this month's press release from Microsoft with its list of updates to the Azure public cloud platform, and cure some innovations that will make both developers and enterprises alike pleased. As ...

As far as virtual machines in the public cloud go, bigger is better. At least that’s what Microsoft seems to believe in any case, if its new Azure G-Series VMs are anything to go by. Rolled out on ...

As it does every few weeks, Microsoft is rolling out a number of new features for its Azure cloud platform. Microsoft has made available its first Docker image for Ubuntu Linux in the Azure ...