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.

Virtual machines (VMs) and containers have their place in datacentres, enabling enterprises to ship software quickly while abstracting applications from the underlying infrastructure.

Because containers consist of an entire runtime environment, they cut through differences in operating system distributions. Moreover, containers are small (often, just several megabytes), while VMs ...

IBM Research has created a new way to measure software security, Horizontal Attack Profile, and it's found a properly secured container can be almost as secure as a virtual machine.

A container image is a template that defines how an image will be realized at runtime. While containers started out as a Linux technology, you can create containers within the Windows operating system ...

Like Windows, Linux also supports VirtualBox, though the limitations of the Type-2 hypervisor become apparent once you get into complex workloads. Performance-wise, it leaves a lot to be desired, ...

Hardware virtualization using virtual machines (VMs) has several use cases in embedded systems, ranging from workload consolidation to running applications on legacy operating systems. Operating ...