Infrastructure optimization
Virtualization has been the main mechanism for hugely optimizing and organizing various IT infrastructures (server machines, storage appliances, networking, and security solutions). The proven divide and conquer technique accomplished through VMs is the main target for IT optimization. In the recent past, Docker containers emerged as a blessing in disguise. Containers contain only what is necessary to build, ship, and run software applications. Unlike VMs, there is no guest OS or hypervisor necessary for containers. This allows enterprises to radically reduce the amount of storage and totally eliminate hypervisor licensing costs. The number of containers that can be accommodated in a physical host or in a VM is ...
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