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.
Rancher Labs Embraces Kubernetes on Behalf of IT Ops
Rancher Labs this week made good on a promise to fully support Kubernetes as part of an effort to make clusters based on the container orchestration platform more accessible to IT operations ...
Red Hat Expands Scope of OpenShift Platforms Based on Kubernetes
Red Hat today announced an update to its OpenShift application development platform based on Kubernetes that, for the first time, adds tools aimed at IT administrators rather than just developers. Mike Barrett, ...
The Linux Foundation to Drive Shift to Container Network Functions
The rate at which cloud-native network functions (CNF) are going to employed to drive next-generation networking services is about to accelerate following a decision by the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) and ...
Splunk to Add Developer Platform Based on Kubernetes
Splunk this week revealed at its .conf18 conference that it has created a beta version of a Splunk Developer Cloud platform based on Kubernetes to both foster the development of microservices-based applications ...
Sysdig Embraces Prometheus for Container Monitoring
Sysdig has announced it will be making greater use of container monitoring technologies developed under the auspices of the open source Prometheus project starting with release 3.0 of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) container ...
Mesosphere Survey Sees More Kubernetes on DC/OS
There’s often a fair amount of contention between proponents of Kubernetes and the DC/OS platform based on Mesos. Many supporters of Kubernetes are convinced that the platform eventually will acquire all the ...
CNCF Advances Kubernetes Security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week formally added via of 1.12 release of Kubernetes support for an application programming interface (API) for requesting certificates from a cluster-level Certificate Authority (CA) ...
Microsoft Further Embraces Kubernetes and Containers
Microsoft this week at the Ignite 2018 conference made it clear that Kubernetes is at the heart of its hybrid cloud computing strategy spanning the network edge to the cloud. As part ...
Eclipse Foundation, CNCF Work on Kubernetes for IoT
The Eclipse Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) are teaming up to optimize Kubernetes for use within internet of things (IoT) environments. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, ...
Competition Among Container Platforms Heats Up
CNCF survey highlights movement in the container sector The most recent biannual survey of 2,400 IT professionals conducted by The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finds that 40 percent of respondents who ...