Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Virtual machines were the cock of the walk fifteen years ago, but they have fallen out of favor ...

Virtual machines are extremely easy to set up, use, and replicate. Over the years, I've always had a virtual machine handy for various key reasons, and they've never failed me. So much so that I ...

The release of Windows Server 2016 will bring a new option of building apps based on micro-services that run in Docker and other standard containers. Does that portend the end of the VM? The rise of ...

Creation of an on-site private cloud for agile software development and IT operations, or DevOps, is one of the primary enterprise use cases for open source technology. Going beyond the hypervisor and ...

Last week saw 20,000 or so IT administrators and CIOs descend on San Francisco for virtualization-king VMware’s annual VMworld conference (disclosure, VMware covered my travel and expenses to attend ...

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 ...

Portland-based software-automation firm Puppet today announced tighter integrations with virtualization firm VMware and container powerhouse Docker. The announcements came in conjunction with ...

Puppet is forging tight links between its devops platform and Docker containers, Jenkins continuous integration, and VMware virtual machines. These improvements are part of a series of product ...

Optimized for the VMware hypervisor, Photon OS is an easy-to-use container OS with all the advantages of virtual hardware With the Photon open source project, VMware hopes to build a community around ...