The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs ...

Virtual machines (VMs) and containers have their place in datacentres, enabling enterprises to ship software quickly while abstracting applications from the underlying infrastructure. So, it isn’t ...

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 ...

Catching up on several interesting developments that slipped by due to volume, here’s a look at the TeaVM translator, Nvidia’s Jetson emulator, and Ubuntu’s MicroK8s container... Both hypervisors and ...

One of the prominent features of OpenShift’s latest release is OpenShift Virtualization that brings the ability to orchestrate both virtual machines and containers. The platform makes VMs first-class ...

In real life, many companies just don’t see a business case for bleeding-edge everything, and the anatomy of a modernized application isn’t always what cloud-native purists dream about. This is why ...

Hardware virtualization using virtual machines (VMs) has several use cases in embedded systems, ranging from workload consolidation to running applications on legacy operating systems.

Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. He has authored several books. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado. When Amazon was still known more as a bookstore than a technology ...