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.
VMworld: VMware Deepens Container Commitment
At the VMworld 2016 Europe conference today VMware launched a series of initiatives intended to bridge the gaps that currently exist between many developers and IT operations teams. For those organizations that ...
Mesosphere Embeds Marathon Container Orchestration in DC/OS
While Marathon may not draw as much attention these days as other container orchestration technologies, work surrounding the platform continues. With the latest version of the DC/OS platform from Mesosphere, the Marathon ...
CoreOS Deploys Virtual Machines on Top of Containers
One of the issues IT organizations routinely face is the assumption that certain trade-offs must be made when choosing to deploy containers on bare metal servers instead of virtual machines. Most IT ...
Axway Marries API Management to Microservices
One of the issues that containers and microservices usually bring to a head inside any organization is the need for a more mature approach to API management. As the number of more ...
Red Hat Advances Container Strategy
Aiming to bolster its case for deploying containers on a platform that is already widely used to support multiple type of application workloads in the enterprise, Red Hat has released an update ...
MapR Extends Microservices Support in Hadoop
There’s clearly a lot of interest these days in building stateful applications using containers, but not much agreement about how best to go about it. A large number of approaches have been ...
Weaveworks Brings Security to Container Networking
Many IT organizations are just now starting to discover the benefits of deploying application firewalls on top of virtual machines. Now Weaveworks is moving to bring similar capabilities to container environments using ...
Microsoft Formally Enters the Docker Container Era
In what is certainly a historic day for the Docker container community and perhaps all of IT, Microsoft and Docker Inc. today announced a slew of initiatives built on top of a ...
LinkedIn Shares Container Memory Usage Experience
One of the more widely used mechanism for limiting consumption of memory resources in IT environments running containers is Control Groups, otherwise known as cgroups, that can be found inside the Linux ...
Cloud Foundry Foundation Makes Case for Containers
There’s a significant amount of debate these days over where best to deploy container applications. Bare metal servers, virtual machines and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments are all in the mix. But a new ...

