Red Hat's correct. Containers, thanks to the fact that they don't need an operating system kernel of their own, are much lighter on system resources.

A new technology called 'containers' is creating 'winners and losers' says Red Hat CEO By Julie Bort Aug 8, 2016, 2:52 PM PT Jim Whitehurst Red Hat CEO Biz Carson/Business Insider ...

Red Hat OpenShift is recognized for its robust capabilities in core Kubernetes areas, developer experience and enterprise-grade offerings ...

Red Hat bolstered its position in the container space, announcing today a deal to acquire CoreOS for $250 million. Red Hat will gain CoreOS' container platform expertise, with a specific focus on ...

Red Hat talks about the use of containers in several ways, including: a discussion of how they help in a DevOps environment; how they make it more easily possible to decompose applications into ...

But making containers that do everything we want without problems… well, that's not so easy. At Red Hat Summit in Boston, Red Hat has an idea on how to fix that: Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI).

With OpenShift 4.7, Red Hat attempts to simplify the migration of virtual machines to containers. Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) can migrate existing VM workloads to OpenShift at scale.

Red Hat is making it happen by repackaging three of its signature enterprise products — OpenShift, OpenStack, and CloudForms– and adding cross-integration between them.

Now, Red Hat is taking things a step further with the general availability of a new migration toolkit for virtualization that companies can use to migrate VMs at scale to Red Hat OpenShift.