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.
F5 Networks Makes a Container Connection
Now that microservices enabled by containers are finding their way into production environments, IT organizations are discovering that managing contention for IT infrastructure resources is a bigger challenge than ever. To make ...
Red Hat Acquires Codenvy to Round Out OpenShift.io
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the amount of time developers spend managing local infrastructure resources, Red Hat this week announced it is acquiring Codenvy, a provider of a workspaces ...
IBM Teams up with Google, Lyft to Advance Container Networks
While some progress has been made in creating a standard network interface for containers, the level of interoperability between containers themselves and other types of computing platforms still leaves much to be ...
Forrester: Rise of Containers Forcing IT Automation
Now that 31 percent of IT organizations are deploying containers, Forrester Research says it’s only a matter of time before IT operations that continue to rely on manual process will be overwhelmed ...
Chef Extends Automation Reach to Containers
IT operations teams are about to be confronted with an unprecedented number of microservices based on containers moving into production environments. As such, more reliance on IT automation frameworks is all but ...
CNCF Aims to Make Container Network Interface a Standard
Container networking standards were advanced today following a unanimous decision by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to accept the Container Networking Interface (CNI) as one of the 10 container projects the ...
How Microservices Are Transforming Big Data Analytics
One of the primary reasons analytics and business intelligence (BI) software use is so limited is that the applications are too limiting to justify the investment. After the application is acquired and ...
Puppet Labs Makes Containers Visible
One of the things that makes IT organizations uncomfortable with containers is their lack of visibility into them. Most legacy tools IT organizations have in place today were deployed long before developers ...
CoreOS Makes Installing Kubernetes Easier
Kubernetes clusters may have a well-deserved reputation for being a challenge to set up. Which is why some vendors are developing tools that make it simpler to deploy and manage Kubernetes. The ...
Dell EMC Extends Container Alliance with Mesosphere
At the Dell EMC 2017 conference this week, Dell EMC expanded its relationship with Mesosphere as part of an effort to couple the transition to memory-intensive microservices that are driving IT organizations ...
