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.
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 ...
Red Hat DevSecOps Strategy Centers on Quay
Red Hat is moving toward putting the open source Quay container registry at the center of its DevSecOps strategy for securing containers. The latest 3.2 version of Quay adds support for Container ...
VMware Sets Kubernetes Strategy for 2020
Now that VMware formally closed its acquisition of sister company Pivotal Software, an ambitious effort to extend its dominance of legacy IT environments into the realm of containers is now officially underway ...
Running Kubernetes at Scale Top 2020 Challenge
As IT organizations that have adopted Kubernetes head into 2020, their next big challenge will be deploying Kubernetes clusters at scale. A survey of 1,300 attendees of the recent KubeCon CloudNativeCon 2019 ...
Report Sees Containers Playing Critical 5G Role
A report published by ABI Research finds that if service providers hope to gain any operational efficiency as they roll out 5G wireless services, they will need to embrace cloud-native technologies such ...
