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.
Google Pledges to Integrate Apigee with Kubernetes
In a move that telegraphs its cloud ambitions with application integration, Google acquired Apigee for $625 million not only to gain access to an API management platform as a service, but also ...
Mirantis Acquires TCP Cloud to Advance Kubernetes Ambitions
Moving to accelerate the rate at which the OpenStack cloud platform can be hosted on the Kubernetes container orchestration platform, Mirantis today announced it has acquired TCP Cloud. Based in Prague, TCP ...
Red Hat Aims to Put IT Back Together
There’s a lot of debate these days concerning what platform is best for deploying containers. On the one hand, virtual machines are popular destination because of the major investments IT organizations have ...
Diamanti Adds MemSQL to Infrastructure Platform
One of the assumption most IT vendors make today is that containers mainly will be deployed using the same IT infrastructure that historically has been used to support virtual machines. But for ...
Kaminario Adds Flocker Support to All-Flash Arrays
As developers begin to build stateful applications using containers there’s a lot more interest in the various data storage systems that have been developed to support containers. One of the earliest providers ...
Citrix Offers ADC Technology as a Free Container
With developers increasingly calling the shots when it comes to what IT infrastructure will be used to support container applications, some IT infrastructure vendors are now going out of their way to ...
VMware Advances Container Ambitions
At the VMworld 2016 conference this week VMware continued its campaign to stay relevant in the new age of microservices. The vSphere Integrated Containers orchestration engine has been upgraded to include support ...
AWS Sees Rapid Microservices Architecture Evolution
Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes IT infrastructure management is evolving too rapidly for the average IT organization to keep pace. Starting with the deployment of containers in a production environment, Werner Vogels, AWS ...
VMware Ties Kubernetes to Integrated OpenStack
As part of a broader effort to make sure that VMware virtual machines are employed within an OpenStack environment, VMware this week at an OpenStack East conference demonstrated how an open source ...
Oracle Makes Hybrid Cloud Case for Container Strategy
When it comes to hybrid cloud computing involving containers, the three leading cloud service providers are still somewhat challenged. Amazon Web Services (AWS) doesn’t really sanction private clouds running on-premises, while Microsoft ...
