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.
Kubernetes 1.6 Spans 5,000 Nodes, Standardizes Runtime
At the CloudNativeCon + Kubecon Europe 2017 conference this week, Kubernetes 1.6 update was released. This latest version can span 5,000 nodes and hardens many of the features enterprise IT organizations require ...
Mashape Looks to Strengthen Kong API Gateway for Microservices
Gateways that facilitate integration across application programming interfaces (APIs) are the engines that have driven the API economy for much of the past decade. But as IT organizations increasingly embrace microservices, some ...
IBM Advances OpenWhisk Serverless Computing Initiative
Now that IBM and Adobe Systems are jointly leading the charge in terms of promoting adoption of an open-source serverless computing framework known as OpenWhisk, the two companies have implemented an application ...
CoreOS Makes Kubernetes More Accessible
Aiming to make its distribution of the Kubernetes container orchestration engine more accessible, CoreOS announced that CoreOS Tectonic soon also will be available on OpenStack and the Microsoft Azure cloud. In addition, ...
Red Hat Marries Gluster Storage to OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat is starting to make a case for coupling its container platform with storage systems running its Gluster software. Following the general availability of version 3.2 of Gluster being made today, ...
IBM Couples Docker Containers to Blockchain Database
IBM is employing Docker containers to make it easier for IT organizations to consume a blockchain service being hosted on IBM Cloud. Launched this week at the IBM InterConnect 2017 conference, IBM ...
Bouyant Aims to Drive Container Networking via Linkerd
Now that many enterprise IT organizations are starting to employ microservices at scale, a number of them are starting to encounter many of the same networking challenges as web-scale companies such as ...
IBM Launches Managed Kubernetes Service
IBM has become the latest in a string of cloud service providers to make Kubernetes available as a managed service. At the IBM InterConnect 2017 conference today, IBM unfurled IBM Bluemix Container ...
CNCF to Weigh Two Container Projects
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) appears to be suffering an embarrassment of container technology riches. Docker Inc., after pledging to give up control of the lower level run-time Docker functions as ...
Mesosphere Extends Data Services Reach
As critical as container orchestration itself might be, most IT organizations view that capability as the means to a larger end. To drive that point home even further, Mesosphere this week has ...
