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.
Portworx Launches Storage Orchestration Project for Kubernetes
Portworx this week launched an open source STorage Orchestrator Runtime for Kubernetes (STORK) project, which promises to make it easier to manage the underlying storage systems serving containerized applications. Company CTO Gao ...
Red Hat Acquires CoreOS to Drive Kubernetes Adoption
Red Hat moved to expand the intellectual capital it can bring to bear regarding containers and the Kubernetes platform by acquiring CoreOS for $250 million. The two companies expect to close the ...
Cisco Unveils Container Platform Based on Kubernetes
Cisco Systems today announced it will make available an instance of Kubernetes that is optimized for Cisco compute and networking environments. Announced at a Cisco Live! event, the Cisco Container Platform announcement ...
CNCF Adds Rook Storage Project for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that it is adding a storage project that promises to greatly accelerate the number of stateful applications that could run natively on top of ...
HPE Partners with Portworx on Bare-Metal Server for Containers
As containers running on top of Kubernetes and other orchestration platforms continue to accelerate, many believe there soon will be a wave of IT infrastructure upgrades driven by I/O requirement of microservices ...
StackRox Aligns with Google on Container Security
As is often the case with any emerging technology, the top concern most organizations have when adding it to a production environment is security. Microservices based on containers is no different in ...
VMware Advances Container Case
VMware has advanced its campaign to make containers an extension of its virtual machine environment by making it simpler to deploy VMware Integrated Controllers (VIC). VIC enables IT organizations to deploy Docker ...
JS Foundation Aims to Accelerate Serverless Computing Adoption
Most implementations of serverless computing frameworks are based on an event-driven architecture that is itself based on microservices enabled by containers. The JS Foundation is now moving to make those frameworks more ...
Codefresh Adds Helm Charts to CI/CD Pipelines
In a few short months Helm has emerged as a primary mechanism for installing and updating applications running on top of a Kubernetes cluster. Curated application definitions for Helm are created using ...
Kasten Rises to Container Data Management Challenge
One of the biggest unmet challenges associated with building microservices based on containers is managing all the data attached to them. As microservices dynamically appear and disappear, keeping track of what is ...
