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Tag: virtualization
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Containers vs Serverless Computing: A Competition or Natural Progression?
Do containers and serverless computing compete, do they complement each other, or does one lead to the other? We've asked industry experts for their thoughts.
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VMware Updates Workspace ONE for 'Consumer Simple, Enterprise Secure' Results
When VMware acquired mobility startup AirWatch for $1.54 billion in 2015, one thing was made clear — it was serious about endpoint computing.
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VMware, AWS Announce Strategic Partnership
They are launching a vSphere-based cloud service that runs on AWS.
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Has Citrix Lost Its Focus?
It’s been a good run. Is it time to say “goodbye”?
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Birst Expands Networked BI With Collaboration, Data Prep
Birst is now doubling down on this product that it launched last September.
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Birst Schools Industry on Networked BI
Birst has created a new framework on which it hopes to see the business intelligence ecosystem become virtualized.
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What You Need to Know About Containerization
Only IT could come up with a word that is such an assault on the ears as “containerization.” We don’t “boxify” gifts on Christmas Eve, a fact for which we may give thanks the month before.
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Who Wins With Citrix's New Workspace Cloud?
Christmas in August? VMWare’s End-User Computing boss Sanjay Poonen may not think so, but IT managers and the end users they serve just may smile when they experience Citrix’s Workspace Cloud.
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Windows and Linux Mix-and-Match Clouds
Developers outside of Microsoft will be able to experiment for the first time with new classes of applications that run partly on Windows, partly on Linux. This is a result of Microsoft's public release today of its third preview of Windows Server 2016. It’s a new phase in the relationship between Microsoft and Docker Inc.,
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How the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Affects You
After a few decades of covering the technology industry, déjà vu becomes an affliction one learns to live with and ignore, like a karbunkle or Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the leading industry players in the emerging field of containerization formed a foundation.
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Can Docker and Hadoop Just Get Along?
The ideal of containerization is that workloads may be distributed safely across multiple platforms and orchestrated through a common portal. “Big data” is arguably the biggest workload of all, with some organizations now visualizing their data warehouses in terms of petabytes.
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What OpenStack Should and Should Not Be
In the strange and sometimes ridiculous parlance that technologists have created for themselves, a stack is a collection of technologies that interoperate with one another to provide a platform for running services and applications.
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Like Windows? Docker Does, Too
Server-based applications built for Linux and packaged in Docker containers will be able to run on a Windows platform. This a result of Docker Inc.’s release today of its Docker 1.6 package, which features a Windows-based Docker client console contributed to the project by Microsoft itself.
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Workspot Offers Remote Desktops Without Virtual Desktops
The rise of virtualization in the workplace has made us question the need for operating systems to be installed on our computers, just so we can use our software.
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