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• VMware prepares its virtualization stack for Docker

  VMware may have pioneered enterprise virtualization, but until Monday it had been relatively quiet when it comes to Docker containers, the popular lightweight form of application virtualization.

• Microsoft creates a container for Windows

  Hoping to build on the success of Docker-based Linux containers, Microsoft has developed a container technology to run on its Windows Server operating system.

• Google Cloud offers streamlined Ubuntu for Docker use

  Google has adopted for use in its cloud a streamlined version of the Canonical Ubuntu Linux distribution tweaked to run Docker and other containers.

• IBM climbs on the Docker bandwagon

  Docker fever continues to spread across the enterprise IT landscape. Following similar moves by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, IBM is equipping its enterprise Cloud services to run the Docker virtualization containers.

• CoreOS's Rocket launch aimed directly at Docker

  Citing concerns around Docker's security model and its increasingly complex supporting platform, CoreOS is developing Rocket, an alternative to the open-source container technology.

• Docker gets some competition with new Joyent, Canonical containers

  Spurred by the sudden success of the Docker virtualization technology, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies.

• Docker gets some competition with new Joyent, Canonical containers

  Spurred by the sudden success of the Docker virtualization technology, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies.

• Xen Project discloses serious vulnerability that impacts virtualized servers

  The Xen Project has revealed the details of a serious vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor that could put the security of many virtualized servers at risk.

• VMworld 2014: Be brave and partner, says Gelsinger

  "Brave" is the current watchword for virtualization software giant VMware.

• VMware prepares OpenStack for enterprise use

  VMware wants to bring enterprise-class reliability to OpenStack by releasing a distribution of cloud hosting software that runs on top of the virtualization stack.

• Sparc and Windows get more love in Oracle VM update

  The latest release of Oracle's software for managing virtual machines offers the same set of features to Sparc users as to those who manage virtual machines on x86 servers.

• VMware opens up testing of next-gen vSphere to anyone

  VMware is for the first time inviting anyone to beta test the next version of vSphere, the company's virtualization platform.

• USENIX: Unstable code can lead to security vulnerabilities

  As if tracking down bugs in a complex application isn't difficult enough, programmers now must worry about a newly emerging and potentially dangerous trap, one in which a program compiler simply eliminates chunks of code it doesn't understand, often without alerting the programmer of the missing functionality.

• Docker all geared up for the enterprise

  Docker 1.0 has officially arrived, giving organizations a proper chance to use the emerging cloud technology to create and run applications with even more agility.

• HP jumps into OpenStack fray with new Helion distribution

  Joining Red Hat, Oracle, Canonical and others, Hewlett-Packard is releasing its own distribution of the OpenStack cloud hosting software.