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.
Mesosphere Survey Sees More Kubernetes on DC/OS
There’s often a fair amount of contention between proponents of Kubernetes and the DC/OS platform based on Mesos. Many supporters of Kubernetes are convinced that the platform eventually will acquire all the ...
CNCF Advances Kubernetes Security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week formally added via of 1.12 release of Kubernetes support for an application programming interface (API) for requesting certificates from a cluster-level Certificate Authority (CA) ...
Microsoft Further Embraces Kubernetes and Containers
Microsoft this week at the Ignite 2018 conference made it clear that Kubernetes is at the heart of its hybrid cloud computing strategy spanning the network edge to the cloud. As part ...
Eclipse Foundation, CNCF Work on Kubernetes for IoT
The Eclipse Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) are teaming up to optimize Kubernetes for use within internet of things (IoT) environments. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, ...
Competition Among Container Platforms Heats Up
CNCF survey highlights movement in the container sector The most recent biannual survey of 2,400 IT professionals conducted by The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finds that 40 percent of respondents who ...
Portworx Adds SDK to Give DevOps Teams Storage Control
Portworx has made available a software development kit (SDK) for its OpenStorage storage software for containers, giving DevOps teams more control over when, where and how data is provisioned and managed when ...
Lightbend Bets on Kubernetes to Converge DevOps and DataOps
Lightbend has announced an update to its Fast Data Platform that can now be deployed on Kubernetes clusters as part of an effort to unify DevOps and DataOps. Company CEO Mark Brewer ...
NetApp Acquires StackPointCloud to Stake Kubernetes Claim
NetApp this week signaled a significant expansion of its cloud-native computing ambitions by acquiring StackPointCloud, a provider of a Kubernetes-as-a-service platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Anthony Lye, general manager ...
CNCF Advances Linkerd Service Mesh Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week released an update to the Linkerd project that makes the open source service mesh platform smaller, faster and more accessible to IT organizations. William ...
Report: Container Security Gaps Should Be Priority
A report published by container security platform provider Twistlock suggests that the biggest issue with container security has more do with the code in the containers rather than the container itself. Based ...

