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.


Tetrate Enlists USAF to Streamline Authentication in Kubernetes Environments Using Istio
Tetrate, today in collaboration with the United States Air Force (USAF) Platform One team, has launched AuthService, an open-source project that replaces the existing authorization service for the Istio service mesh with ...

Google Adds GKE Option to GDC Platform for Hybrid IT Environments
Google this week added the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) platform that enables IT teams to deploy the IT infrastructure stacks defined by Google on any cloud ...

CAST AI Helps Cost-Optimize LLMs Running on Kubernetes
AI Wayfinder determines which cloud instance of a GPU will run an AI model most efficiently ...

Civo Acquires Kubefirst to Advance GitOps in Kubernetes Environments
Cloud services provider Civo acquired Kubefirst to provide ongoing support for a framework for implementing GitOps best practices ...

SUSE Extends Reach of Rancher Platform for Managing Kubernetes Clusters
SUSE will add a range of capabilities to its Rancher platform to streamline the overall software development life cycle ...

Maintainers of Istio Move Closer to Delivering on Lighter-Weight Ambient Promise
Istio maintainers are preparing a beta release of the Ambient edition of the platform that eliminates the need to rely on container sidecars to deploy it ...

CNCF Formally Convenes End User Technical Advisory Board
The End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) promises to serve as the voice of the end user community ...

AI Emerges as Next Major Kubernetes Challenge
AI is a dominant theme of KubeCon, as data science teams encounter complexity challenges as cloud-native application developers ...

Fermyon to Donate Open Source Wasm Platform to CNCF
Fermyon applied to donate an open source platform for building, deploying and managing Wasm apps on Kubernetes clusters to the CNCF ...

New Relic Adds Native Kubernetes Support to Observability Platform
New Relic is now providing native Kubernetes support for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus-instrumented hosts ...