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Big Data Ecosystem Updates: Hadoop, Containers, and VMs Explained

October 27, 2021

Twenty years ago, a startup called VMware brought in business by providing a platform to create nonphysical machine virtualizations, such as Linux, Windows, and others. As server processing capacity increased, basic applications couldn’t maximize the use of all the abundant new resources. Enter Virtual Machines (VMs), designed to run software on top of a physical server, and to imitate a specific hardware system. A hypervisor is software or hardware that can create and run VMs.

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