There’s a reason why IBM’s YouTube explainer video on “containers vs. virtual machines (VMs)” has 243,000 views and counting. There are still plenty of developers who work with VMs and have just a ...

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Over at the UberCloud, Wolfgang Gentzsch writes that, despite the ever increasing complexity of CAE tools, hardware, and system components engineers have never been this close to ubiquitous CAE as a ...

In this special guest feature, Wolfgang Gentzsch from The UberCloud writes that we’ve never been so close to ubiquitous computing for researchers and engineers. High-performance computing (HPC) ...

Embedded systems are hotrods. They are specialized hardware and software with real-time requirements that are custom-built to optimize cost, performance, and features. Embedded systems are everywhere, ...

Gremlin updated its “failure-as-a-service” platform with the ability to automatically identify Docker containers and to simulate real-world outages. The firm said the updates help organizations build ...

Whether you have considered trying to secure an application by putting it into a “sandbox” or wondered how a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider keeps your application and data isolated from other ...

The 2015 Red Hat Summit opened this week in Boston and attendees are expected to be knee-deep in topics such as system optimization, container-based approaches and application performance concerns.

We love containers. They let us run many more server applications on the same hardware than virtual machines do. There's only one not so little problem with containers: Security. CoreOS's Clair ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. In the world of software application development, container ...