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.
Adoption of Containers Reaches Tipping Point
A survey of 5,000 application developers conducted by DigitalOcean, a provider of cloud services, finds that about half of them—49 percent—are now using containers. The top five benefits cited for using containers ...
Pure Storage Automates Container Storage Provisioning
Pure Storage this week announced the general availability of its Pure Service Orchestrator tool, which automates the provisioning of storage for containerized applications. Sandeep Singh, senior director for solutions marketing at Pure ...
HashiCorp Extends Service Mesh To Address Security
HashiCorp has extended the reach of HashiCorp Consul, an open source service mesh for containers, into the realm of cybersecurity. The company made the announcement at this week at its HashiDays event ...
CNCF to Release Kubernetes 1.11
The latest version of Kubernetes goes a long way toward addressing fundamental networking and storage requirements that should serve to accelerate adoption of the container orchestration platform in production IT environments. Version ...
Making the Case for Kata Containers
The debate over whether containers and hypervisors complement each other or eliminate the need for the latter remains contentious. Most containers today are deployed on top of hypervisors largely because of a ...
SUSE Bolsters Kubernetes-based CaaS Environment
SUSE has added a range of management capabilities to its container-as-a-service (CaaS) offering based on Kubernetes that makes it easier for IT operations teams to manage containerized applications at scale. Andreas Jaeger, ...
Rackspace Unveils Kubernetes-as-a-Service Offering
Rackspace, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), has unveiled what it describes as the first managed Kubernetes service being made available using a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Announced at the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) ...
Linux Foundation Shifts Network Infrastructure to Kubernetes
The Linux Networking Fund (LNF) is making significant progress toward embracing Kubernetes as a platform for delivering a range of networking services that are expected to be widely embraced by telecommunications carriers ...
Trend Micro Moves to Secure Container Images
As the number of organizations that are embracing containers continues to increase, so does the number of incumbent cybersecurity vendors extending the reach of their platforms. Trend Micro, as part of that ...
IBM Extends Kubernetes Across Cloud Availability Zones
IBM is continuing to embrace Kubernetes as a core cloud service by making the container orchestration platform available across multiple availability zones. That extension is part of an expansion of the IBM ...
