As the virtualization of U.S. defense agencies commences, the technology’s many attributes – and drawbacks -- are becoming apparent. Virtualization has enabled users to pack more computing power in a ...

Every day in every way, Microsoft and Linux are getting closer. Maybe MS-Linux isn't a joke after all? While Julia Liuson, Microsoft's corporate VP of developer tools and services, was singing Linux ...

Joe Brockmeier, a senior evangelist at Red Hat, explains the benefits of containers on Linux, how they work and how to prepare to use them. One of the most exciting things to happen in the Linux world ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

Part I of this Deep Dive on containers introduces the idea of kernel control groups, or cgroups, and the way you can isolate, limit and monitor selected userspace applications. Here, I dive a bit ...

CoreOS Container Linux is an open-source container operating system designed to support Kubernetes. The CoreOS flavor of container infrastructure management uses the Rocket or Docker container engine, ...