VMware recently updated its vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) platform with a few additions that while admittedly “minor” continue to show how the company is pivoting toward the container market.

Every major provider of computing software, hardware and cloud services, along with many newcomers, see containerization as the future architecture for developing and sharing applications across OSes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. virtualization-zdnet-joe-mckendrick.jpg Image: Joe McKendrick In a previous post, I discussed the challenges of integrating Docker ...

This column will review the key aspects of compute virtualization and application containerization as used in the data center and the cloud. Not familiar with these ideas? If you care about the future ...

Ray O'Farrell, VMware's CTO and chief development officer, said in a statement, "Today, VMware is announcing foundational infrastructure that will enable customers to deploy cloud-native applications ...

Having made its fortunes virtualizing the X86 servers at some 500,000 customers worldwide, there is no bigger threat to the continued financial success of server virtualization and cloud player VMware ...

People once wondered whether VMware Inc. would ever embrace containers because they could be seen as a threat to the VMware cash cow, the virtual machines (VMs) created by its hypervisor, ESXi. In ...

There’s few more exciting topics in infrastructure software than containerization at the moment, and with good reason too. As an easy-to-use and lightweight alternative to virtualization, there’s been ...

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman took a jab at longtime partner VMware earlier this week, suggesting the rise of Linux containers would eventually make the virtualization software vendor ...

Every major provider of computing software, hardware and cloud services, along with many newcomers, see containerization as the future architecture for developing and sharing applications across OSes, ...