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.
High Correlation Between Containers and Node.js Usage Seen
There is a very high correlation between developers that have embraced Node.js to develop applications and usage of containers. A new survey of 1,405 IT professionals published by The Node.js Foundation finds ...
IBM: Flash Storage Accelerates Hybrid Clouds Based on Containers
Middleware technologies wrapped in containers that will be deployed on Flash-enabled systems are at the heart of an IBM approach to hybrid cloud computing that will unfold in the months ahead. Edward ...
Datrium Hosts Containers on Converged Infrastructure
Datrium, a provider of a converged infrastructure (CI) platform, has added support for stateful Linux containers and Docker persistent volumes to both a bare-metal instances of it platform as well as multiple ...
Microsoft Automates Container Deployments on Azure
Microsoft this week moved to make it much easier to spin up instances of containers on a Microsoft Azure Cloud and be billed for on a per-second basis. Corey Sanders, director of ...
Aqua Security Rises to PCI DSS Challenge for Containers
Containers present many unique compliance challenges in terms of both visibility and the rate at which containers come and go in a production environment. To help address that issue, Aqua Security is ...
IBM Makes Case for Mainframes as Container Platforms
Later this year IBM plans to have put in place a licensing model that will provide a compelling financial incentive for IT organizations to deploy microservices based on containers on a new ...
StackRox Unveils Security Platform for Containers
An IT security platform specifically designed for container environments was unveiled this week by StackRox. Wei Lien Dang, vice president of product for StackRox, says existing IT security platforms don’t provide any ...
OCI Specification Gets Ratified
With the ratification of an Open Container Initiative 1.0 (OCI) specification announced today by The Linux Foundation, IT organizations now should have greater confidence in the fact that container images will be ...
TIBCO Acquires nanoscale.io to Drive Microservices
The mutual dependency between microservices and APIs runs deep. In addition to spawning an API, each new microservice makes calls to any number of existing APIs. As part of an effort to ...
Google Extends Hybrid Appeal of Container Engine Cloud
In terms of advancing container adoption, Google has been at the forefront, thanks mainly to its work on developing the Kubernetes container orchestration framework. The company this week moved to make those ...

