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.
Cisco Extends Kubernetes’ Reach
Cisco Systems today extended its support for Kubernetes by adding support for the container orchestration platform to both the Cisco CloudCenter management platform and the AppDynamics application performance management cloud service. In ...
Red Hat Unveils Operator Framework for Kubernetes
Red Hat today unveiled an open source framework for integrating a suite of Operator applications that simplify the management of Kubernetes clusters. Rob Szumski, product manager for OpenShift at Red Hat, says ...
SUSE Gets Cloud Foundry Distro for Kubernetes Certified
The fact that the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) has gotten around to certifying an instance of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment from SUSE may not seem all that relevant. But when ...
Microsoft Brings Serverless Computing to Containers
Serverless computing based on containers took a step forward this week, as Microsoft made Azure Container Instances (ACI) generally available on the Microsoft Azure cloud. ACI is a serverless computing framework based ...
New Relic Provides Kubernetes Support in Beta
New Relic announced this week that it is extending its monitoring capabilities to include the ability to peer inside Kubernetes clusters. Ramon Guiu, director of product management at New Relic, says the ...
New Sysdig CEO Charts Containers Course
The new CEO for Sysdig contends that IT management is about to be transformed fundamentally by the advent of containers. Suresh Vasudevan, who was announced this week as the new CEO of ...
Tripwire Takes on Container Compliance Challenge
As part of a bid to embed DevSecOps and compliance into the earliest stages of the Docker image build process, Tripwire is making available a Container Analyzer Service under an early access ...
IBM Experiments with Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes
IBM is moving to make an experimental instance of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment available on the IBM Cloud Private that runs on top of Kubernetes. Cloud Foundry already has its ...
Survey Finds Increase in Container Expertise Among Services Providers
The number of IT services providers that have container expertise has increased substantially, but few of them would classify themselves as full-on experts just yet. A survey of 138 IT service providers ...
Docker Inc. Subsumes Kubernetes into CaaS Platform
Docker Inc. today made good on its promise to support Kubernetes container orchestration software as an alternative to Docker Swarm in Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0, an update to the container-as-a-service (CaaS) ...

