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.
Google Extends Scope of Anthos Cloud Platform
Google this week extended its campaign to establish Anthos as a hybrid cloud computing platform by adding support for a serverless computing framework along with an instance of the Istio service mesh ...
CNAB Specification for Deploying Apps Advances
A Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification that promises to make it easier to deploy software has now become an official project within the Joint Development Foundation, an arm of the Linux ...
Container Security War Heats Up With $42M Lacework Investment
The battle over container security is heating up following a $42 million investment in Lacework, a provider of a container security platform that is optimized for best DevSecOps processes. There now are ...
Camunda Leverages Kubernetes to Push BPM to the Cloud
Camunda today unfurled a beta edition of a business process management (BPM) platform accessed via the cloud that the company developed using microservices running atop Kubernetes clusters, which enables organizations to create ...
Sumo Logic Adds Support for Kubernetes
Sumo Logic has unveiled the first instance of its monitoring tools delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to support Kubernetes. Announced at the company’s Illuminate 2019 conference, the Continuous Intelligence Solution for Kubernetes ...
Mirantis Aligns With Facebook to Advance CNFs
Mirantis announced it is furthering the adoption of container network functions (CNFs) by collaborating with Facebook to bring Magma, an open source converged access gateway software platform, to Kubernetes. Announced at the ...
Google Aims to Wed Apache Spark to Kubernetes
Google today announced it will extend Google Cloud Dataproc, a managed service for accessing the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework, to Kubernetes. James Malone, a Google senior product manager, says Google will ...
OCI Launches Artifacts Project to Reduce Registries Required
The Technical Oversight Board (TOB) for the Open Container Initiative (OCI) today announced it has approved a new Artifacts project that will extend the reach of a single repository to encompass multiple ...
Sysdig Makes Container Security Case for Falco
Sysdig is doubling down on its efforts to make its open source Falco project the de facto means for pulling security metrics for runtime security and intrusion detection. The company has already ...
Red Hat Aims to Secure Evolving Container Life Cycle
Red Hat is making available more tools intended to help organizations better secure their container supply chains. The latest tools come in the form of SELinux profiles, which provide more granular control ...
