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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 ...

Microsoft has suspended its SQL Server on Windows Container beta “with immediate effect”, citing ecosystem challenges. Microsoft senior program manager Amit Khandelwal said: “Due to the existing ...

Databases usually lag behind other servers in moving to new architecture, but containerization brings enough major improvements to convince even the most old-school DBAs. When Microsoft announced back ...

Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies’ ...

Going forward, there is little question that containers have become firmly established as the technology of choice for application deployment – at least until such a time as alternative approaches ...

Microsoft and Docker announced today that the two companies have forged a partnership targeted at bringing support for containerized applications to Microsoft’s products. The partnership will be ...

Docker containers are one of the hottest technologies for developers these days and all the large cloud vendors now support it in some form. For the most part, though, containers are associated with ...

The latest preview of Windows Server shows a new level of support for Docker and hints at Microsoft's overall ambitions with containers Microsoft developers hungry for their first taste of ...