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.
Gravitational Updates Simplify Kubernetes Deployments
Gravitational has updated its open source packaging tool for deploying Kubernetes clusters to enable packaging multiple Kubernetes applications into a single image file that can be replicated across multiple clusters. In addition, ...
Happy Sixth Birthday, Docker!
Anyone who says six years ago they fully appreciated the impact Docker containers would have on IT probably isn’t being entirely truthful. But as Docker celebrates its official sixth birthday today, it’s ...
Tetrate Launches Istio Service Mesh Offering
Tetrate this week emerged from stealth to launch what it describes as an enterprise-class implementation of a service mesh based on the open source Istio project. Fresh off raising $12.5 million in ...
Battle for Service Mesh Control Heats Up
While appreciation of precisely what problem a service mesh solves in a Kubernetes environment is still fairly limited in scope, a battle for control over how microservices will be configured and managed ...
Rancher Labs Launches Submariner Networking Project for Kubernetes
Rancher Labs has launched an open source project intended to make it easier to build a network spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO Sheng Liang says the Submariner project makes it possible ...
Red Hat Launches Quarkus Project to Advance Java on Kubernetes
Red Hat has launched a Quarkus project that makes available a Java framework optimized to run on top of Kubernetes. Quarkus is a Kubernetes-Native Java framework tailored for Java virtual machines (JVMs) ...
Containerd Comes of Age
Now that containerd has become the fifth project to officially graduate under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), many enterprise IT organizations that typically wait for standards to solidify ...
Hammerspace Brings Global Data Management to Kubernetes
Hammerspace this week announced it is has added Kubernetes support to its global data management platform. Company CEO David Flynn says Hammerspace has developed data management software that makes persistent volumes running ...
Aqua Security Extends Platform Reach
Aqua Security this week extended the security capabilities it provides for serverless computing frameworks by adding the ability to scan functions running on those frameworks for vulnerabilities. In addition, version 4.0 of ...
Twistlock Extends Container Security Platform to VMs
Twistlock announced it has extended the reach of its container security platform to include support for virtual machines running on-premises or in public clouds. In addition, version 19.03 of the company’s namesake ...
