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.
Containers Emerge at the Core of SAP Integration Strategy
Containers are rapidly emerging as the primary mechanism that SAP will rely on to integrate its growing portfolio of applications running inside and out of the cloud. Speaking at the SAP SapphireNow ...
Rancher Labs Picks Up $20M to Advance Container Management
Rancher Labs, fresh off of raising another $20 million in financing, is gearing up to further adoption of containers by making them simpler to manage. Shannon Williams, vice president of sales and ...
RightScale Survey Finds Many Containers Land on Virtual Machines
When Docker containers first came on the scene the general expectation was that they would emerge as a lighter weight alternative to traditional virtual machines. But as it turns out a new ...
CNCF Takes on Project Prometheus To Advance Monitoring
Building a container application is one thing; learning to live with it in a production environment on the other hand represents a major set of IT operational challenges. To help address this ...
Additional CoreOS Funding to Drive Enterprise Container Adoption
Now that CoreOS has announced that it has picked up and additional $28 million in financing the company plans to pay more attention to making microservices environments built on top of the ...
Eldarion Launches Open Source Kel Project on Top of Kubernetes
When it comes to application development these days there is no shortage of platform-as-a-service environments. The latest open source entrant in the category comes from Eldarion, which this week announced that it ...
Open Source Sandstorm Project Turns Data into Linked Containers
Far too frequently, when a set of innovative technologies emerges organizations tend to approach them in the same context as the legacy technologies they already employ. But as is often the case ...
EMC Launches Polly, Open Source Storage Scheduling Project for Containers
At the EMC World 2016 conference this week EMC launched an open source project, dubbed Polly, for scheduling to the allocation of storage resources for Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and Cloud Foundry deployments ...
Cisco Outlines Container Ambitions at OpenStack Summit
At the OpenStack Summit Austin 2015 conference this week Cisco made a significant effort to establish a reputation leading development of open source technologies that will prove crucial to containers. Specifically, Cisco ...
VMware Taps Pivotal to Bundle Cloud Foundry with Photon Platform
At the core of the VMware strategy for being able to natively support containers is a VMware Photon Platform that consists of VMware Photon Controller, an open sourced distributed control plane, Photon ...
