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.

Crate Technology Raises $4M to Drive NoSQL Database Optimized for Containers
Being able to spin up containers quickly is one thing. Managing them in a production environment requires persistence on the part of both the underlying IT infrastructure and the IT professionals asked ...

Container Orchestration Wars Start to Heat Up
When Docker is clearly the dominant instance of containers the debate over how containers should be managed is now just only beginning. At present, there are arguably four leading orchestration platform most ...

Facebook and Equinix to Collaborate on Platform for Containers
Facebook and Equinix this week at the Open Compute Project 2016 Summit announced a partnership under the two companies plan to collaborate on the development of a new platform optimized to run ...

MapR Technologies Brings Containers, Hadoop and Mesos Together
Arguably the two biggest technology advances in software in recent memory have been the arrival of Hadoop and the rise of container such as Docker. MapR Technologies today moved to bring those ...