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.

The Case for Hardened Container Images with Ryan Carlson
Chainguard president Ryan Carlson explains how $350 Million in additional funding will be applied to better secure modern cloud-native application development environments using hardened container images. Despite all the talk about shifting ...

Chainguard Adds Support for Multi-Layer Hardened Container Images
Chainguard has added support for multi-layer images to its repository for accessing hardened container images that are free of vulnerabilities. Jason Hall, principal engineer for Chainguard, said that while it has been ...

Mirantis Extends Appeal of Control Plane to Traditional IT Administrators
Mirantis today extended the capabilities of an enterprise edition of an open source control plane to add workflow capabilities that are designed to be familiar to VMware administrators. Since earlier this year, ...

F5 Extends Ability to Scale and Secure Network Traffic Across Kubernetes Clusters
F5 is making available an update to F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNF) to make it simpler to scale network traffic horizontally across Kubernetes clusters. Additionally, version 2.0 of F5 BIG-IP ...

Komodor Extends Kubernetes Management Reach to IDPs
Komodor this week revealed it has integrated its platform for managing Kubernetes clusters with internal developer portals (IDPs), starting with the open source Backstage and the proprietary Port platform. Company CTO Itiel ...

Red Hat Extends Scope and Reach of OpenShift Platform
Red Hat today expanded the portfolio of offerings it provides on top of Red Hat OpenShift to include a suite of tools for developers in addition to making OpenShift Lightspeed, a generative ...

Docker, Inc. Adds Curated Hardened Container Images to Hub
Docker, Inc., today made available a curated catalog of hardened container images that will enable application development teams to better secure their software supply chains ...

Nutanix Previews Storage Platform Running Natively on Kubernetes Clusters
Nutanix today at its .Next conference made available under an early access program a storage platform that runs natively on a Kubernetes cluster ...

Kubernetes 1.33 Release Adds Native Support for Container Sidecars
The latest release of Kubernetes, made available this week, adds 24 capabilities in alpha, with another 18 that were under previous development having been declared stable. At the same time, another 20 ...

Latest Release of Linkerd Service Mesh Includes Preview of Windows Support
Buoyant this week made available an update to the open source Linkerd service mesh that, in addition to providing access to an experimental version that integrates Windows platforms, also makes it now ...