Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.

Container Solutions Brings minimesos Local
The disparity between what developers see on their local systems versus what actually occurs on servers in a production environment is at the core of almost every DevOps issue. Developers inevitably become ...

Mesosphere, Vapor IO Partner on Scheduler
When it comes managing when and where applications workloads run, IT organizations today have no shortage of choices. The hard part is determining which one makes the most sense from economic and ...

Citrix Uses Docker Containers to Deploy ADCs
Most IT organizations today are still in the process of converting physical devices into virtual appliances that can run on standard x86 servers. That approach not only reduces the number of physical ...

3Scale Deploys API Gateway as a Docker Image
By definition, the API economy is dependent on providing developers with access to a broad range of back-end applications and services that can be invoked easily. But with the rise of microservices, ...

Red Hat Optimizes Ansible Docker Support
With thousands of containers soon to descend on enterprise IT systems everywhere, most IT organizations will have little choice when it comes to relying more on IT automation frameworks. To enable higher ...

JFrog Shines Light on Container Issues
At the recent JFrog swampUp annual user conference JFrog expanded its DevOps ambitions into the realm of containers with tools that gives IT organizations visibility into both the container and the IT ...

Containers Emerge at the Core of SAP Integration Strategy
Containers are rapidly emerging as the primary mechanism that SAP will rely on to integrate its growing portfolio of applications running inside and out of the cloud. Speaking at the SAP SapphireNow ...

Rancher Labs Picks Up $20M to Advance Container Management
Rancher Labs, fresh off of raising another $20 million in financing, is gearing up to further adoption of containers by making them simpler to manage. Shannon Williams, vice president of sales and ...

RightScale Survey Finds Many Containers Land on Virtual Machines
When Docker containers first came on the scene the general expectation was that they would emerge as a lighter weight alternative to traditional virtual machines. But as it turns out a new ...

CNCF Takes on Project Prometheus To Advance Monitoring
Building a container application is one thing; learning to live with it in a production environment on the other hand represents a major set of IT operational challenges. To help address this ...