A standard operating environment can reduce the time it takes to deploy, configure, maintain, support, and manage containerized applications. Let’s get SOEs and containers back together. Hello, ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

Even with all of the advances in IT, whether it’s modular hardware, massive cloud computing resources, or small-form-factor edge devices, IT still has a scale problem. Not physically—it’s easy to add ...

Virtualization technology, whereby multiple operating systems can be run on shared hardware, is extremely well understood if somewhat inefficient in its use of resources. Just a few decades ago, ...

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 ...

Although containers emerged from the land of Linux, Microsoft has wholeheartedly embraced them. Beginning with Windows Server 2016, the company began offering two types of Docker-compatible containers ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Before using Proxmox to run my home lab, I always considered the operating system I used at the time reflected my technical ambition. By that, I mean dual-boot systems and other dedicated applications ...