Paul Rubens

The container ecosystem took a great leap forward at the end of February with the full launch of Docker Datacenter (DDC). It's what Docker describes as

VMware is typically considered the biggest name in server virtualization, with Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology a close second. But these are

You've probably noticed a lot of talk recently about the future of the EMC Federation. It owns 80% of VMware, along with Pivotal, Virtustream and the

It's probably fair to say that, until recently, CoreOS didn't like Docker. Why? One of CoreOS's biggest gripes with Docker was that the container

With virtual machines, as in life, you get what you pay for. So if a service provider is offering very cheap virtualized servers in the public cloud, it's

Competition is always good for consumers, and things are heating up nicely in the public cloud arena. That's because Microsoft has just blown Amazon out

Now that the dust has settled on VMworld 2014, the time has come to ask: What was it all about? And what was the biggest thing to come out of it? On the

Are virtual machines less susceptible to malware than physical machines? It turns out that the answer is probably yes, but the security benefit of using a

If your organization is a small or medium-sized business (SMB) rather than an enterprise and has started to utilize server virtualization, then chances

VMware is making a habit of monster acquisitions these days. Back in July 2012 the company bought network virtualization specialist Nicira for $1.05

Hypervisor heterogeneity is on the rise, and over the last few years we've talked extensively about multi-hypervisor management tools. But Convirture is a

Hotlink is a vendor of some very clever bits of software that make the management of virtualized environments easier. And recently the company has been