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.
IBM Bets on Bare Metal Servers for Kubernetes
IBM this week expanded the scope of its ambitions for containers in the cloud by making available an instance of its managed cloud service that includes a bare-metal option for deploying Kubernetes ...
Mesosphere to Resell Portworx Storage Software for Containers
The march to make containers a foundational element of stateful applications across the enterprise got a boost this week with Mesosphere announcing it will resell PX-Enterprise storage software from Portworx. The agreement ...
Socotra Employs Docker Containers to Modernize Insurance Industry
Docker containers and the cloud are being employed in combination to modernize IT in an insurance industry sector long known to be a laggard when it comes to adopting emerging technologies. Socotra, ...
MapR Ties Kubernetes to Persistent Storage
MapR Technologies at the Strata Data Conference this week announced it is incorporating Kubernetes into the MapR Data Fabric developed to provide access to persistent storage for both monolithic and microservices-based applications ...
Mesosphere Delivers on Kubernetes Promise
Mesosphere today moved to make good on a promise to incorporate Kubernetes clusters into the DC/OS platform to provide a way to more easily integrate microservices applications with disparate back-end data sources ...
Robin Systems Expands IT Management Platform Based on Containers
Containers are about to transform the way IT is managed, as vendors are now starting to employ containers to transform how entire applications and databases are deployed and managed. Case in point ...
Aqua Security Advances Container Security
Aqua Security today updated its container security platform to add support for Kubernetes and the ability for developers to embed security controls directly in a container image. In addition to support for ...
Amdocs Unveils Platform for Building Microservices
Amdocs, at the Mobile World Congress 2018 conference this week, launched a microservices-focused development platform based on Kubernetes that is optimized to meet the requirements of telecommunications service providers. Daniela Perlmutter, vice ...
Arm Sees Containers Driving IoT Applications
Arm, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 conference this week, announced it will make available an on-premises edition of its Mbed Cloud platform for managing internet of things (IoT) devices based ...
Kublr Adds Self-Service Capability to Kubernetes Distribution
There may be no shortage of managed service providers (MSPs) willing to curate a Kubernetes distribution on behalf of a customer, but not all of them are willing to give customers the ...
