Engine Yard vs KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
A side-by-side look at Engine Yard and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Engine Yard
Development
Engine Yard is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides automated cloud hosting, management, and scaling for Ruby on Rails and PHP applications. It handles provisioning, configuring, monitoring, patching, and managing servers and applications in the cloud.
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KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
System & Hardware
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is an open-source virtualization technology that allows you to create and run virtual machines (VMs) on Linux. It makes use of hardware virtualization capabilities of modern CPUs for efficient virtualization.
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