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.
Containers Shake Network Functions Virtualization Assumptions
One of the bigger debates to emerge at the Mobile World Congress 2018 conference this week is the degree to which network service providers will be relying on virtual appliances rather than ...
HyperGrid Bolsters Management Platform for Containers, Microservices
HyperGrid has updated its software-defined platform for managing a modern IT environment based on Docker containers has been updated to include a recommendation engine that determines where to optimally place workloads. HyperCloud ...
Codefresh Adds Helm Managed Service
Codefresh at the Helm Summit 2018 conference this week unfurled a managed service that combines the open source Helm tools for deploying microservices based on containers with testing tools that validate those ...
CNCF Explains Role of Serverless Computing Frameworks
Just about every serverless computing framework of any consequence make use of containers as the enabling technology on which an event-driven architecture gets built. To help IT organizations get a better handle ...
VMware Delivers on Kubernetes Promise
VMware, in collaboration with sister company Pivotal, announced this week the general availability of the Kubernetes instance developed by the two companies. Paul Dul, vice president of product management for cloud native ...
Oracle Demos Container Prowess
Oracle used its Oracle CloudWorld event this week to demonstrate how it enables DevOps teams to consistently replicate Kubernetes clusters across a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline spanning a hybrid cloud computing ...
Sylabs Arrives to Advance High-Performance Computing Container Adoption
Sylabs came out of stealth today to provide support for container software designed specifically for high-performance computing (HPC) environments that are being employed to process scientific applications based on, for example, machine and ...
Heptio Makes Case for Kubernetes Subscription Service
The Kubernetes container platform is largely still a work in progress, so naturally there’s a need for a lot of support from external service providers. Most internal IT organizations, however, still don’t ...
CNCF Adds Vitess Database Orchestration Project
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week has decided to accept Vitess as a new project. Vitess is a database orchestration system developed at YouTube ...
StackRox Bolsters Container Security
StackRox this week moved to make it easier to secure containers by integrating its container security software with multiple container orchestration platforms. Company CTO Ali Golshan says StackRox Detect and Respond 2.0 ...
