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.
Anchore Raises $20M to Expand Kubernetes Security Reach
Anchore this week announced it has received an additional $20 million in funding as the battle for container security supremacy intensifies in 2020. Startups such as Anchore are finding themselves competing with ...
Octarine Adds 2 Open Source Projects to Secure Kubernetes
Octarine announced today it has launched two open source projects intended to enhance Kubernetes security. The first project is kube-scan, a workload and assessment tool that scans Kubernetes configurations and settings to ...
CNCF Annual Report Shows Kubernetes Growth
An annual report published today by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) suggests the pool of IT professionals who have Kubernetes expertise is expanding. The number of IT professionals participating in a ...
Catalogic Software Debuts Open Source Backup Tool for Kubernetes
Catalogic Software has made available the open source KubeDR utility for backing up and recovering Kubernetes cluster configuration, certificates and metadata residing in an etcd repository. Company COO Sathya Sankaran says Catalogic ...
VAST Data Delivers of CSI Promise
VAST Data has made generally available versions of its all-flash storage arrays that support the Container Storage Interface (CSI) for connecting external storage systems to Kubernetes clusters. Jeff Denworth, vice president of ...
Elastic Brings Observability Platform to Kubernetes
Elastic N.V. announced this week that Elastic Cloud, a subscription instance of an observability platform based on the open source Elasticsearch engine, is generally available on Kubernetes. Anurag Gupta, principal product manager ...
Red Hat Delivers Latest Kubernetes Enhancements
Red Hat this week moved to make it easier to operationalize IT environments based on Kubernetes by making the latest versions of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage generally ...
Instana Adds CRI-O Support to APM Platform
Instana this week became one of the first providers of an application performance management (APM) service to add support for the Container Runtime Interface based on the Open Container Initiative specification, otherwise ...
CNCF Funds Cybersecurity Bug Bounty Initiative for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced it is funding a bounty program for discovering security bugs in any distribution of Kubernetes. Maya Kaczorowski, product manager for container security at Google, ...
CNCF Moves Falco Kubernetes Security Platform Forward
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it has advanced the open source Falco project for securing Kubernetes runtime environments using an intrusion and abnormality detection tool. Falco employs the Extended ...
