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It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (8 children)

This may be a silly question, but what are VMs generally used for in a corporate setting? Is it the same use case as docker?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

VMs provide a meaningful security boundary between applications. Containers (docker, etc) do not.

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