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Welcome to The Register Debates in which we pitch our writers against each other, and you – the reader – decide the winning side.

Containers will kill virtual machines

Should you migrate your services and applications to containers, or are virtual machines good enough? Is containerization an overkill and just for the likes of Google and Amazon, or are virtual machines a blunt tool unsuitable for modern software deployment?

Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative

Hackers are friends not foes, says Alyssa Miller in this opening argument for our latest debate

Consolidating databases has significant storage benefits, therefore everyone should be doing it

Proponents claim storage consolidation means less storage, which means lower costs. Naysayers argue storage consolidation may actually increase costs and can be hugely complex. Where is the benefit?

Artificial intelligence in the enterprise is just yesterday's dumb algorithms rebranded as AI

Is this artificial intelligence genuinely useful, does the technology as it stands today have a place in the enterprise, or is it simply a cynical marketing turn to dress up previous algorithms as intelligent?

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