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.
Cloud Foundry Embraces Kubernetes Runtime Environment
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), at a Cloud Foundry Summit Europe conference, announced it will make the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR) the default runtime for deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters, using ...
Red Hat Aims to Scale Container Storage
Managing storage in a container environment presents some unique challenges: Not only is there more data being created faster, the number of microservices trying to call the same data increases exponentially. To ...
Rate of Container Adoption Sparks Debate
There’s general agreement that containers have become one of the fastest emerging technologies to be adopted in the enterprise in recent memory. The debate now concerns that rate at which containers adoption ...
Red Hat Presses Forward with System Containers
Red Hat is moving to implement System Containers to reduce the number of components a developer needs to manage when employing a lightweight distribution of Linux. Lightweight distributions of Linux are being ...
Google Expands Container Cloud Services
As a cloud service provider Google is running a comfortable third place behind Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. But as IT organizations begin to shift to microservices based on containers, ...
Kubernetes 1.8 Brings Additional Security, Stability
The latest release of the Kubernetes container orchestration engine, which arrived this week, has something for almost everybody in the container community. In general, new Kubernetes 1.8 features fall into two broad ...
SAP Commits to Kubernetes Container Orchestrator
At its Tech-Ed 2017 conference this week, SAP made a major commitment to employing the Kubernetes container orchestration engine alongside the implemention of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service environment it already employs in ...
Mirantis to Support Kubernetes on AWS
Mirantis made a name for itself by providing a curated distribution of the open-source OpenStack cloud management framework that organizations could deploy themselves or have Mirantis manage on their behalf. The company ...
Rancher Labs Embraces Kubernetes
Rancher Labs originally developed Cattle as an orchestration engine specifically optimized for Docker containers. Now, with its technical preview of the Rancher 2.0 management framework unveiled this week, the company is signaling it ...
Mendix Adds Kubernetes Support to Low-Code Platform
As a provider of a low-code application development environment, Mendix realized early on it could leverage investments being made by open-source software consortiums such as Cloud Foundry to lower its development costs ...
