Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Whether the goal is ...

One term popping up more and more in the cloud space is “containerization.” If you’re-paying attention to the trends in cloud computing, you’ve probably heard about it, or at least about the most ...

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 ...

That said, even the uber-popular Raspberry Pi family remains left out of the home lab game, as anything more demanding than a ...

Linux containers have become the standard for how server-side applications are built, tested, and deployed. When deploying server-side workloads at scale, they need to run in different environments.

It's a bit geeky but the impact of this technology shift on cloud computing costs and enterprise app development could be huge, so bear with me OK, I'll admit this is a bit of a geeky topic but it's ...

But for folks on the hunt for a free home server platform that’s adept at running VMs and containers, MicroCloud is definitely worth checking out. Its clustering provisions are pretty amazing, and the ...