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.
CoreOS Launches “Stacknetes” Initiative at OpenStack Summit
The promised integration of the Kubernetes container orchestration framework and OpenStack got underway this week at the OpenStack Summit Austin 2016 conference with the launch of a “Stacknetes” initiative by CoreOS. Launched ...
Mesosphere Leads Formation of Open Source DC/OS Alliance
Moving to give IT organizations more confidence in an “open core” implementation of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS), Mesosphere this week announced the formation of alliance of vendors committed to ...
Diamanti Unveils Converged Appliance Optimized for Containers
While there’s no doubt that the proliferation of containers has profound implications for IT organizations less clear is the degree to which containers will drive those IT organizations to invest in new ...
DH2i Unfurls Container-as-a-Service for Microsoft SQL Server
With interest in delivering stateful applications using databases that run on top of containers on the rise many IT organizations are trying to figure out how to best go about providing this ...
Open Container Initiative Advances Container Standards
Moving to shore confidence in the openness of containers as a platform for a broad range of applications running on microservices, the Open Container Initiative (OCI) announced today that work has begun ...
Robin Systems Adds Container Support to Holistic Management Platform
The rapid rise of containers is starting to force some uncomfortable conversations about how enterprise IT as a whole is managed. While many IT organizations are now wrestling with how to manage ...
Sysdig Ties Container Monitoring to Mesosphere
Sysdig regularly makes note of the fact that monitoring a container environment requires a monitoring tool that runs natively on containers. Otherwise, a monitoring tool has to rely on agents that more ...
Anchore Service Provides Means to Ensure Container Image Security
Most IT operations teams are pretty particular when it comes to deploying any kind of image in a production environment, so when it comes to images that run on containers it’s understandable ...
Puppet Launches Project Blueshift to Provide Bridge to Container Future
As part of a broader expansion of its core mission Puppet today announced the launch of a Project Blueshift initiative through which it will apply its IT automation framework to Docker, Kubernetes ...
VMware Advances Photon Controller Project
When it comes to containers VMware is pursuing a two-pronged strategy. One is via the existing VMware hypervisor on which containers can be deployed. The other involves a PhotonOS project based on ...
