Monitoring used to be a relatively simple matter. Most companies had a fixed number of applications to monitor. These were usually delivered on the web and lived for a number of years on a fairly ...

Does a microservices-based approach to software development in which services are deployed to Docker-like containers and orchestrated with technologies like Kubernetes and Swarm actually make DevOps ...

CoreOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, VMware, Rancher, and Microsoft put unique twists on the stripped-down, container-focused, cloud-scale operating system There’s an all-out war going on to see which OS will be ...

VMware is the most unusual and unexpected player in the industry to ship a Linux distribution. Here is an analysis of what forced the virtualization giant to make this move. Not long ago, VMware was a ...

VMware jumped into burgeoning software-defined networking (SDN) field in a big way four years ago when it bought started Nicira for $1.26 billion, a deal that led to the launch of VMware’s NSX ...

Containers are a small, fast, and easy-to-set-up way to deploy and run software across different computing environments. By holding an application’s complete runtime environment, including libraries, ...

The history of computing is punctuated by a set of seismic shifts in enterprise IT architectures. Monolithic, highly integrated applications moved to integrated software stacks and N-tier ...