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 Simplification a Priority
As a container orchestration platform, Kubernetes has a well-deserved reputation for being difficult to both deploy and master. But with the release of version 1.5, the container orchestration platform is becoming a ...
Docker Inc. Gives Up containerd Control
As part of an effort to mollify critics while simultaneously engendering the development of a much broader Docker ecosystem, Docker Inc. today announced it is donating a core element of Docker Engine ...
Wercker Adds Managed Virtual Pipelines to CI/CD Service
They say the journey is its own reward. But when it comes to making the shift to entirely new approaches to building and deploying applications, many organizations prefer to focus on the ...
CoreOS Unveils ‘Self-Driving’ Kubernetes
At a Tectonic Summit 2016 conference today CoreOS unveiled an implementation of the Kubernetes container orchestration software that it promises to update continuously. CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi says the “self-driving” implementation of ...
Mirantis Launches Combined Docker, Kubernetes Cert Program
As Kubernetes becomes the most widely supported container orchestration engine, demand for IT professionals with Kubernetes expertise is bound to accelerate shortly. To meet that demand, Mirantis has started a vendor-neutral Kubernetes ...
TIBCO Software Employs Docker Containers to Drive BI Reuse
The concept of using Docker containers to make it simpler to package application code to make it more portable has been around for a while now. But that same technology is also ...
AWS Stokes Container Management Debate
Amazon Web Services is gearing up to throw its weight around in the debate over container management and orchestration. At the re:Invent 2016 conference, AWS announced plans to create a Blox project ...
With Photon, VMware Advances Container Agenda
VMware is continuing to extend the reach of its effort to host cloud-native applications with the release of 1.1 update to its Photon Platform that enables microservices based on containers such as ...
Docker Allies with Canonical on Ubuntu Support
Docker and Canonical have formed an alliance under which the Docker CS Container Engine will be commercially supported by both vendors. While Docker containers have been widely deployed on Ubuntu for some ...
Microsoft Advances Container Agenda
Microsoft has delivered a series of updates on its microservices strategy spanning everything from a managed Azure Container Service (ACS) to Azure Functions that drive a serverless instance of the Microsoft cloud ...
