Posted on March 18, 2015 by Bhavna Sarathy of Red Hat.

Over the last 18 months, especially since the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, “containers” have emerged as a hot topic. With the more recent introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, an operating system optimized for running the next generation of applications with Linux containers, one might wonder… what about virtualization? In that the benefits of containerization seem to overlap those of traditional virtualization, how do organizations know when to pick one approach over the other?

Read the whole article via Virtual Machines or Containers? Maybe Both? | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog.