Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies’ ...

If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...

Databases usually lag behind other servers in moving to new architecture, but containerization brings enough major improvements to convince even the most old-school DBAs. When Microsoft announced back ...

Microsoft has suspended its SQL Server on Windows Container beta “with immediate effect”, citing ecosystem challenges. Microsoft senior program manager Amit Khandelwal said: “Due to the existing ...

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In a story I wrote for Computerworld in January, which was a review of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, I mentioned Windows Server’s new support for Hyper-V containers that had been added to ...

Docker Windows Server containers let you run programs on Windows in a lightweight and isolated environment. They work like small packages that include everything a program needs to run, such as the ...

Docker is one of the biggest buzzwords in the IT world. If you're wondering why, the main answer is because of the value that containers and development with Docker instances provide to software ...