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.
Best of 2025: Docker, Inc. Embraces MCP to Make AI Agent Integration Simpler
Docker, Inc., today added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to make it simpler for developers to invoke artificial intelligence (AI) agents using the existing tools they rely on to build ...
Best of 2025: Kubernetes 1.33 Release Adds Native Support for Container Sidecars
The latest release of Kubernetes, made available this week, adds 24 capabilities in alpha, with another 18 that were under previous development having been declared stable. At the same time, another 20 ...
Best of 2025: Report Details Raft of Kubernetes Management Challenges
An analysis of thousands of incidents involving Kubernetes clusters finds IT teams are spending 34 workdays per year resolving issues, with 79% of those incidents stemming from recent system changes. The report, ...
Docker, Inc. Adds More Than a Thousand Free Hardened Container Images
Docker is releasing more than 1,000 hardened container images under an open source license, aiming to cut vulnerabilities and strengthen software supply chains ...
SUSE Allies with evroc for European Cloud Service Based on Kubernetes
SUSE today revealed it has allied with evroc to provide a sovereign cloud based on its Kubernetes platform that in the first quarter of 2026 will be hosted in Europe by a ...
Akamai Acquires Fermyon to Further Advance Wasm Adoption
Akamai Technologies this week acquired Fermyon to add a serverless computing framework for building and deploying Web Assembly (Wasm) applications to its portfolio. Akamai and Fermyon formed an alliance earlier this year ...
vCluster Adds Virtual Kubernetes Reference Architecture for GPUs
vCluster Labs has made available a reference architecture for incorporating graphical processor units (GPUs) running artificial intelligence (AI) workloads into virtual Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO Lukas Gentele said the Infrastructure Tenancy Platform ...
Survey Surfaces Myriad Kubernetes Networking Challenges
New survey data shows Kubernetes networking complexity rising, with teams struggling across observability, egress, multi-cluster security, and tool sprawl—highlighting the growing need for platform engineering and unified networking approaches ...
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Open Source KServe AI Inference Platform Becomes CNCF Project
The CNCF adopts KServe to strengthen cloud-native AI inference on Kubernetes as platforms like Red Hat OpenShift AI expand model-as-a-service capabilities ...
Google Extends Kubernetes Service to Safely Run Agentic AI Workloads
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Google unveiled major GKE upgrades — including an AI sandbox, inference gateway, pod snapshots, and 130,000-node clusters — to optimize and secure agentic AI workloads ...

