If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...

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 ...

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 is an open platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. Dockerized applications can run locally on a developer’s machine, and they can be deployed to production across ...

Comparison of security postures for containers and different types of hypervisors. Key measures of software security. Security certifications for virtualization solutions. How to improve the security ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

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