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.
Red Hat Platform Brings Kafka Closer to Kubernetes
Red Hat this week updated its Red Hat Integration platform for event-driven applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters by incorporating functionality from multiple open source projects to address everything from governance to how ...
Carbonetes Unfurls Container Security Service
Carbonetes today emerged from stealth mode to formally launch a namesake container application security testing service. Company CEO Mike Hogan says rather than requiring IT teams to acquire and integrate disparate container ...
Fujitsu Taps Rancher Labs for Kubernetes Expertise
Rancher Labs and the global IT services arm of Fujitsu that operates in the United Kingdom (UK) have joined forces to further the adoption of Kubernetes container orchestration technology within public sector ...
Aqua Security Revamps Cloud-Native Portfolio
Aqua Security today announced that its cloud-native security platform will be available now in two editions that enable IT teams to apply varying levels of cybersecurity based on specific requirements. The first ...
D2iQ Donates KUDO Toolkit to Create Operators to CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made the Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator (KUDO) management toolkit created by D2iQ as a sandbox level project. D2iQ CTO Ben Hindman says Kudo traces its ...
GitLab Offers CI/CD Platform as Hardened Container Image
GitLab is making available an instance of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform in the form of a hardened container image that can be downloaded via an Iron Bank repository set ...
Aqua Security Surfaces Threat to Container Hosts
Aqua Security this week reported a new type of cyberattack that exploits Docker application programming interfaces (APIs) to build and run a malicious container image on the host. Asaf Morag, lead data ...
Linux Foundation Partners With CNCF on Kubernetes Certs, Training
The Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today they are collaboratively developing a Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification expected to be available in November. At the same time, ...
Platform9 Expands Managed Kubernetes Portfolio
Platform9 today announced it has extended the reach of its managed Kubernetes services to include open source Prometheus monitoring software and Grafana dashboards along with support for Calico virtual networking software. In ...
Red Hat Expands Container Cost Optimization Tool
Red Hat has extended a free software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering included with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions designed to make it easier to control cloud costs. Sergio Ocón-Cárdenas, principal product manager for ...