Is Docker the Future of Virtualization Security? | Linux Today

Is Docker the Future of Virtualization Security?

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 5, 2013

Virtualization is now the norm in data centers around the world, and with it have come new security challenges. Most virtualization is deployed today with a traditional hypervisor virtual machine (VM) model, using technologies from VMware or the open source KVM or Xen projects. Now, however, there is another way to deploy virtualization — and it could revolutionize the way virtual security is done.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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