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.


Citrix Offers ADC Technology as a Free Container
With developers increasingly calling the shots when it comes to what IT infrastructure will be used to support container applications, some IT infrastructure vendors are now going out of their way to ...

VMware Advances Container Ambitions
At the VMworld 2016 conference this week VMware continued its campaign to stay relevant in the new age of microservices. The vSphere Integrated Containers orchestration engine has been upgraded to include support ...

AWS Sees Rapid Microservices Architecture Evolution
Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes IT infrastructure management is evolving too rapidly for the average IT organization to keep pace. Starting with the deployment of containers in a production environment, Werner Vogels, AWS ...

VMware Ties Kubernetes to Integrated OpenStack
As part of a broader effort to make sure that VMware virtual machines are employed within an OpenStack environment, VMware this week at an OpenStack East conference demonstrated how an open source ...

Oracle Makes Hybrid Cloud Case for Container Strategy
When it comes to hybrid cloud computing involving containers, the three leading cloud service providers are still somewhat challenged. Amazon Web Services (AWS) doesn’t really sanction private clouds running on-premises, while Microsoft ...

ADTRAN Uses Microservices to Advance 5G
It’s no secret that the telecommunications industry is currently going through a massive transformation as part of a general shift toward 5G networking. Less clear is the role microservices are playing to ...

Mesosphere Presses Container 2.0 Case
In the grand scheme of IT things there are two major emerging technology trends creating a virtuous cycle of innovation. The first has been the rise of big data platforms that make ...

CNCF Stabilizes Prometheus Monitoring API
Just about everybody in IT would agree that some degree of monitoring for containers will be required as more of them find their way into production environments. There’s much less agreement about ...

Kony Simplifies Mobile App Dev Using Microservices
As big a boon microservices might be in building and deploying applications, working across hundreds of them can be a major challenge for the average developer. To make that more feasible, Kony ...

NodeSource Couples Node.js to Kubernetes
Every great once in a while two macro technology trends come together in a way in which the sum of the parts most definitely will be greater than the whole. Such is ...