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.
Latest Container Vulnerabililty Creates Another Tempest in a Security Teapot
As containers grow in popularity, so, too, do security threats The disclosure this week of a vulnerability that could be employed by cybercriminals to overwrite the host runc binary to gain control ...
IBM Uses Kubernetes to Run Watson Apps on Any Cloud
IBM this week announced it will leverage Kubernetes to make artificial intelligence (AI) applications based on the IBM Watson platform available on any cloud. Announced at the IBM Think 2019 conference, this ...
NeuVector Extends Container Security Reach to Service Meshes
As more layers of software get deployed on top of Kubernetes, the same container security platforms employed to secure clusters should be extended to support service meshes as well. With that goal ...
The Rise of Bare-Metal Kubernetes Servers
While most instances of Kubernetes today are deployed on virtual machines running in the cloud or on-premises, there is a growing number of instances of Kubernetes being deployed on bare-metal servers. The ...
MapR Adds Support for Container Storage Interface
MapR Technologies this week announced it has added support for the Container Storage Interface (CSI) to its platform for running big data analytics applications. Suzy Visvanathan, director of product management for MapR, ...
AT&T Looks to Mirantis to Drive 5G Services Using Kubernetes
Mirantis announced it has joined Airship, an open source project for automating the provisioning of clouds, as part of an effort to accelerate deployment of Kubernetes on bare-metal servers that AT&T will ...
Service Meshes: The Next Big Challenge
Now that Kubernetes is on the cusp of mainstream adoption in the enterprise, one of the next big challenges IT organizations will need to contend with is determining what service mesh to ...
Rancher Eases Management of Distributed Apps on Kubernetes Clusters
Rancher Labs this week announced it has extended its ability to manage distributed Kubernetes platforms to now also include distributed applications spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO Sheng Liang says as IT ...
Red Hat Launches App Dev Platform Native to Kubernetes
Red Hat is making generally available an application development environment that runs natively on Kubernetes. Brad Micklea, senior director for developer experience and programs at Red Hat, says CodeReady Workspaces will enable ...
Platform9 Launches Managed Kubernetes Service of VMware
Platform9 launched what it claims is the first instance of a managed Kubernetes service for VMware vSphere environments deployed in an on-premises IT environment. Madhura Maskasky, vice president of product for Platform9, ...
