Developers love containers. They’re easy to use and fast to start. You can run a lot of them on even simple hardware. Startup overhead has always been a bane of development and testing, and this ...

Having made its fortunes virtualizing the X86 servers at some 500,000 customers worldwide, there is no bigger threat to the continued financial success of server virtualization and cloud player VMware ...

VMware recently updated its vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) platform with a few additions that while admittedly “minor” continue to show how the company is pivoting toward the container market.

Every major provider of computing software, hardware and cloud services, along with many newcomers, see containerization as the future architecture for developing and sharing applications across OSes, ...

People once wondered whether VMware Inc. would ever embrace containers because they could be seen as a threat to the VMware cash cow, the virtual machines (VMs) created by its hypervisor, ESXi. In ...

At VMworld 2016, VMware announced an enhancement to its vSphere Integrated Containers product by more closely integrating Docker's version of operating system virtualization and partitioning, a.k.a.

Ray O'Farrell, VMware's CTO and chief development officer, said in a statement, "Today, VMware is announcing foundational infrastructure that will enable customers to deploy cloud-native applications ...

VMware executives demonstrated new virtualization technologies designed to run in the data centers of the future at the company’s annual VMworld conference. VMware showed off a new capability of ...