VMware Launches Lightwave and Photon for Linux Containers | Linux Today

VMware Launches Lightwave and Photon for Linux Containers

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 21, 2015

Linux containers and most notably the Docker container ecosystem have emerged in the last two years to become a highly agile way to build and deploy virtualized applications. Early on, some considered Docker to be competitive to the Virtual Machine (VM) hypervisor model that VMware’s platform is based on, but that’s not exactly the case.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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