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.
Microsoft: Embrace Containers or Face Extinction
A principal technology evangelist for Microsoft told attendees this week at the NextStep 2017 conference hosted by OutSystems that organizations that don’t adopt containers as the fundamental unit of work for building ...
OutSystems Charts Container Strategy
At a NextStep 2017 conference this week, OutSystems signaled it will marry its low-code application development platform with containers. Gonçalo Borrêga, head of product for OutSystems, says the company will provide tools ...
StackPointCloud Unfurls Managed Kubernetes Service
As IT organizations embrace cloud-native applications based on microservices, many of them are starting to question the degree to which they want to manage IT infrastructure versus devoting more resources to building ...
Sumo Logic Report Shows Container, Serverless Computing Adoption Growth
While the majority of exiting application workloads continue to run on-premises, the majority of new applications are being deployed on public clouds. A new report from Sumo Logic that examines what new ...
Mesosphere Embraces Kubernetes for Container Orchestration
The team that developed the Marathon container orchestration engine is now throwing its weight behind Kubernetes. Mesosphere recently announced it is now providing access to a beta implementation of Kubernetes as an ...
NGINX Extends Microservices Ambitions to App Servers
At the nginx.conf 2017 event today NGINX revealed that, as part of its push to embrace microservices based on containers, the longtime provider of open-source load balancing and web server software is ...
DH2i Enables Container Migration Between Windows, Linux
It’s now possible to move Docker containers between Linux and Windows systems by deploying the latest version of DxEnterprise virtual host software from DH2i. A version 17 release of DxEnterprise unveiled this ...
Pivotal Partners with VMware, Google on Kubernetes
The latest provider of managed implementation of Kubernetes clusters for deploying container applications is also a provider of a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment based on software developed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Announced ...
NeuVector Secures VMware VIC Environments
Given the proliferation of containers deployed on top of virtual machines, many IT organization are looking for security and monitoring tools to provide visibility into those containers. At the VMworld 2017 conference ...
Canonical Launches Kubernetes Consulting Services
As part of an effort to help IT organizations jump start their deployments of Kubernetes container orchestration projects, Canonical announced it will make available two distinct classes of turnkey consulting engagements. Dustin ...
