The recent addition of four 16GB DDR3 DIMM modules to my VM server (Octeron) has seen its RAM capacity double from 64GB to 128GB thus facilitating the creation of even bigger virtualised environments. Subsequent testing of the new RAM modules »

The gradual maturity of Linux Control Groups and in-kernel namespaces (i.e. net, user, mount, IPC, etc) has enabled powerful OS-level virtualisation utilities such as Docker and LXC to offer a lightweight, high-performing alternative to typical hardware based virtualisation (e. »