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.


VMware Leans on Apcera to Manage Containers
IT organizations in large numbers have been deploying containers on top of VMware because that’s the dominant platform deployed inside most enterprise IT organizations. But many of those organizations also want to ...

HPE, Mesosphere Tighten Integration
Mesosphere and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have tightened their relationship by integrating their respective management platforms. At the recent Discover 2017 conference hosted by HPE, the two companies announced that they have ...

IBM Intros Cloud Cost Analysis Tool to Drive Container Use
IBM has unfurled a Cloud Brokerage Services Cost and Asset Management software-as-a-service (SaaS) application in response to the rising popularity of container adoption within on-premises IT environments. While many IT organizations once ...

Qualys Extends Monitoring Reach to Docker Containers
At a Gartner Security and Risk Management conference today, Qualys announced it has extended its continuous monitoring service to support Docker containers. Qualys developed a container sensor that can be distributed as ...

Atlantic.Net Unfurls Windows Server Container Cloud Service
When it comes to hosting containers on Windows Server in the cloud, it looks like Microsoft is no longer the only game in town. Atlantic.Net has added a Windows Server Container service ...

Oracle Preps Managed Kubernetes Service
At the CoreOS Fest 2017 conference last week, Oracle announced it will be making available instances of CoreOS Container Linux on its public cloud in addition to committing to providing access to ...

Microsoft Automates App Deployments on Kubernetes
At the CoreOS Fest 2017 conference this week Microsoft announced it is making available an open source Draft tool that makes it possible for developers to spin up a Kubernetes container cluster ...

CoreOS Unfurls Hybrid Kubernetes Cloud Initiative
At the CoreOS Fest 2017 conference today, CoreOS outlined a hybrid cloud computing strategy based on Kubernetes clusters deployed on public clouds and on-premises. CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi says one of the ...

F5 Networks Makes a Container Connection
Now that microservices enabled by containers are finding their way into production environments, IT organizations are discovering that managing contention for IT infrastructure resources is a bigger challenge than ever. To make ...

Red Hat Acquires Codenvy to Round Out OpenShift.io
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the amount of time developers spend managing local infrastructure resources, Red Hat this week announced it is acquiring Codenvy, a provider of a workspaces ...