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.
Appreciating the Simplicity of Microservices
At first glance, microservices and containers seem more challenging to manage because of the thousands of isolated modules of code that accumulate over time. In reality, however, the secret to successfully deploying ...
Dockercon: Docker Previews Innovations
The main focus of the Dockercon 2016 conference this week was clearly on an upgrade to Docker that delivered a bevy of new management capabilities. But Docker Inc. also telegraphed where it ...
Microsoft Shows Love for Docker Containers
Many IT organizations are still waiting for Microsoft to deliver support for Docker containers on Windows Server. At the Dockercon 2016 conference Microsoft took the opportunity to further whet the appetites of ...
Platform9 Preps Hosted Kubernetes Service
Most IT organizations have a tried and true response when exposed to new technologies. Eventually they want to master that technology, but they tend to look for outside help from managed IT ...
Docker Embeds Swarm in Docker Engine
For all the hype surrounding Docker containers, the fact remains that the number of IT organizations that have put in place a formal approach to manage them remains relatively small. At the ...
Red Hat Aims to Reduce Docker Tools Reliance
While developers clearly love the flexibility that containers enable, there’s no question containers introduce complexity to IT operations. Not only are there more microservices to track, but also containers such as Docker ...
VMware Brings IT Automation to Containers
As part of an ongoing effort to treat Docker containers as a natural extension of VMware environments, VMware at the Dockercon 2016 conference has announced its Project Bellevue initiative to extend its ...
Puppet Labs Embraces Docker Containers
As microservices architectures continue to evolve, no one is absolutely certain what kind of functions eventually will wind up running where. For example, application logic most likely will be deployed as a ...
Container Solutions Brings minimesos Local
The disparity between what developers see on their local systems versus what actually occurs on servers in a production environment is at the core of almost every DevOps issue. Developers inevitably become ...
Mesosphere, Vapor IO Partner on Scheduler
When it comes managing when and where applications workloads run, IT organizations today have no shortage of choices. The hard part is determining which one makes the most sense from economic and ...
