Rudy de Anda, Head of Strategic Alliances at Penguin Solutions, outlines why virtual machines and containers are often better ...

Virtual machines (VMs) and containers have their place in datacentres, enabling enterprises to ship software quickly while abstracting applications from the underlying infrastructure. So, it isn’t ...

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.

Embedded developers need to deploy ever-more complex systems to take advantage of hardware whose functionality and performance continue to grow at accelerated rates. Writing a single application is ...

The wooden crate in the truck's bed represents the workload (applications) running on the computer. For a desktop OS, this ...

Better yet, modern hypervisors can run most of the popular operating systems inside VMs – including FreeBSD distros and even ...

Are virtual machines (VM) more secure than containers? You may think you know the answer, but IBM Research has found containers can be as secure, or more secure, than VMs. James Bottomley, an IBM ...

Everyone's heard the term, but what exactly are containers? The software enabling this technology comes in many forms, with Docker as the most popular. The recent rise in popularity of container ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. A container is a collection of one or more processes, organized under a single name and ...

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