May 19, 2015
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VANCOUVER — At OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu‘s founder, announced that benchmarks proved that Ubuntu’s LXD container hypervisor “crushed” Linux’s own built-in virtual machine (VM) hypervisor KVM. Canonical claims LXD crushes KVM. More>
May 13, 2015
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Venom (Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation), the recently discovered security hole in the open-source QEMU virtual machine hypervisor, has been fixed. That’s the good news. The bad news is many of you, even though you may use a QEMU-based hypervisor … Continue reading
May 11, 2015
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I get it. I really do. Containers let data-center and cloud administrators put two to three times more server instances on a given server than they can with virtual machines. That means fewer servers, which means less power usage, which … Continue reading
April 28, 2015
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Name a tech company, any tech company, and they’re investing in containers. Google, of course. IBM, yes. Microsoft, check. But, just because containers are extremely popular, doesn’t mean virtual machines are out of date. They’re not. Containers vs. virtual machines: … Continue reading
March 12, 2015
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Much of Linux’s early business success was based on the Linux, Apache, MySQL and Python/PHP/Perl (LAMP) stack. Looking ahead Red Hat and Docker is hoping that “RHELDoc,” a software stack made up of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Docker … Continue reading
March 5, 2015
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Not much over a year ago, few people knew about containers, and fewer still knew about Docker. Since then, the idea of building server and applications out of container-based micro-servers, has exploded in popularity. Red Hat has been watching this … Continue reading