Few technologies have more disruptive potential than Docker. Although the company and its namesake technology are barely two years old, almost every major cloud vendor has, or is in the process of, ...

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 ...

Docker, which is based on LXC container technology, has exploded in popularity. While far from the first technology to place applications within smaller, lighter-weight "containers" instead of ...

If the first half of the first decade of the 21st Century has been about virtualization, the next half-decade may be dominated by a new approach, the anti-virtualization tool called Docker. Docker, to ...

Linux, of course, has long had hypervisors such as its built-in KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and Xen but containers take a different approach to virtualization. In traditional hypervisors, the entire ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The Docker open-source virtualization container technology ...

The open source Docker container technology is taking on the server virtualization market, offering what some see as a faster alternative to running full virtual machines over hypervisors. For the ...

VMware may have pioneered enterprise virtualization, but until Monday it had been relatively quiet when it comes to Docker containers, the popular lightweight form of application virtualization. Now ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Prior to 2014, Docker was not well-known, but that all ...