Knowing the differences between the two will help you get a handle on what will work best for your environment.
Mitch Parker of Citrix believes the platform "will offer APIs to connect to all of the on-premises datacenter elements seamlessly."
App Volumes had its genesis in the acquisition of CloudVolumes last August.
The services are aimed at supporting multi-container, multi-host distributed applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/08/2014
It also builds functionality for Docker Machine, used for remote container orchestration, into several core offerings.
Dan analyzes the new fight brewing between Docker and its challengers, including the just-announced Rocket.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 12/04/2014
Although not a full-fleged client, a new command-line interface may be a harbinger of things to come.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/18/2014
Dan argues that containers are great, but not always the right choice.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 11/05/2014
Does CTERA's answer get it right?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 10/28/2014
Try this quick, inexpensive fix when your options are limited.
Expected in December, VMware Workstation 11 will also support Ubuntu, Red Hat and other Linux-based operating systems.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/09/2014
The tool is easy to use, but does lack some important capabilities.
- By Elias Khnaser
- 10/09/2014
Microsoft is expected to release details of "enterprise" functionality on Sept. 30.
Before you update that older vSphere, gain some insight into your licensing requirements for vSphere 5 with this nifty tool.
In the recently posted "The World Runs on VMware vSphere" infographic, WiredCPU.com shows how just in the last 10 years (2001-2011) we have gone from virtually NO server virtualization in use to more than 50 percent of the servers in the world being virtualized (and over 20 million vSphere virtual machines running every day).