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.
Solo.io Open Sources Service Mesh Hub
Solo.io is making a Service Mesh Hub available as an open source project to make it easier for IT organizations to automate the management of network and security services. Company CEO Idit ...
Appvia Simplifies Kubernetes Deployments for Developer Teams
Appvia this week launched a distribution of Kubernetes that is easier to provision and deploy on behalf of developer teams. Company CEO Jonathan Shanks says Appvia developed its open source Appvia Kore ...
Canonical Adds Managed Services for Kubernetes Environments
As part of an effort to help organizations accelerate their transition to modern applications based on Kubernetes clusters, Canonical is making available 10 complementary databases and tools as a set of services ...
Aqua Security Issues Docker API Alert
Aqua Security has issued an alert that notes the volume of cybersecurity attacks designed to exploit misconfigured open Docker Daemon application programming interface (API) ports is rising sharply. Specifically, the company reports ...
Rancher Labs Simplifies Kubernetes Lifecycle Management
Rancher Labs this week released an update to its distribution of Kubernetes that makes it easier to upgrade without any downtime in addition to making it easier to remotely access. Company CEO ...
Alcide Adds HIPAA Support to Kubernetes Compliance Tool
Alcide today announced it is adding support for Healthcare Information Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) compliance to a scanning tool it provides for Kubernetes to organizations that need to comply with a variety ...
VMware Delivers on Kubernetes Promise for VMware vSphere
VMware announced today that an instance of the VMware vSphere platform in which Kubernetes has been embedded is now generally available. Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager for the Cloud ...
Kasten Adds Transformation Framework to Manage Kubernetes Data
Kasten this week updated its data management platform for Kubernetes to make it possible to capture more granular events when migrating or backing up data. Company CEO Niraj Tolia says version 2.5 ...
PlanetScale Advances Hybrid Clouds Based on Kubernetes
PlanetScale announced that its PlanetScaleDB database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering based on Kubernetes and the Vitess open source software that makes it possible to cluster MySQL compatible databases is now available in beta on ...
DataStax Simplifies Cassandra Deployments on Kubernetes
DataStax has developed an Operator that makes it easier to deploy and update the open source Cassandra distributed database on top of Kubernetes clusters. At the same time, the company also revealed ...

