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.
CNCF Expands Efforts to Run AI Inference Workloads on Kubernetes Clusters
CNCF and Red Hat unveil major AI milestones at KubeCon Europe 2026, including the llm-d framework contribution and stricter Kubernetes AI Requirements (KARs). Learn how v1.35 benchmarks like in-place pod resizing and ...
Mike Vizard | | AI agentic workloads, AICR, CNCF KubeCon Europe 2026, distributed AI inference, edge AI inference, in-place pod resizing, Jonathan Bryce CNCF, KAR v1.35, KRO project, Kube Resource Orchestrator, Kubernetes AI Conformance Program, Kubernetes AI Requirements, Kueue job queueing, llm-d framework, NVIDIA AI Cluster Runtime, PyTorch Foundation, Red Hat AI, Sovereign AI standards, vLLM extension, workload-aware scheduling
Broadcom Extends Reach and Scope of Kubernetes Platform
Broadcom unveils major VKS updates at KubeCon Europe 2026, including F5, Kong, and Tigera integrations, the contribution of Velero to the CNCF, and support for Kubernetes 1.35. Explore how Broadcom is doubling ...
Mike Vizard | | AppArmor profile management, Broadcom cloud-native strategy, Broadcom KubeCon Europe 2026, Container Network Interface, Declarative TuneD profiles, enterprise Kubernetes isolation, F5 Kong Tigera integration, KubeCon Amsterdam 2026, Kubernetes 1.35 VKS, Kubernetes on VMs, nftables kube-proxy, node-level firewall API, Prashanth Shenoy Broadcom, RHEL 9 Kubernetes, Velero backup recovery, Velero CNCF contribution, VKS support bundles, VMware licensing 2026, VMware VKS updates, vSphere Kubernetes Service CNI
Survey: AI Spurring Increased Adoption of Containers
A global survey of 1,600 cloud, IT, and engineering executives published today finds a full 87% expect their organizations’ reliance on containers to deploy applications to increase over the next three years, ...
Red Hat Extends Cloud-Native Reach Across Multiple Telecom Providers
At MWC 2026, Red Hat announced partnerships with major telecommunications companies, including Telefónica and Vodafone, to adopt its platforms for cloud-native application development. This initiative aims to unify IT infrastructure and enhance ...
Mike Vizard | | AI factory, cloud-native software, CNCF survey, cost reduction, digital transformation, distributed applications, edge computing, IT infrastructure, kubernetes, KubeVirt, legacy applications, Mobile World Congress, Openshift, openstack, telecommunications services, Telenor, virtualization, Vodafone
Red Hat Makes Available Supported Version of Podman Desktop Tool for Containers
Red Hat this week made available an enterprise-supported version of the open source Podman tool it created for developing, managing and running containers. James Labocki, senior director of product management for Red ...
CNCF Chief: AI Inference Will Drive Increased Cloud Native Software Consumption
AI inference models are set to drive significant cloud-native software consumption, according to CNCF's executive director. With more AI models on Kubernetes, there's a shift towards backend services without graphical interfaces. While ...
Chainguard Dashboard Provides Visibility into Pipeline for Creating Secure Container Images
Chainguard today added a dashboard that provides visibility into which software packages the provider of secure container images is currently prioritizing. Ed Sawma, vice president of product marketing for Chainguard, said the ...
Together AI Adds Container Inference to Managed Service for AI Models
Together AI today added a container interface to a managed cloud service it provides for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models. Nikitha Suryadevara, product lead for inference at Together AI, said the Dedicated ...
Cluster API Update Makes Managing Kubernetes Environments Simpler
The maintainers of the Cluster Application Programming Interface (API) for Kubernetes clusters have released an update that makes it simpler to automatically trigger in-place updates to create or delete a machine. Version ...
Noma Security Identifies Security Flaw in Docker AI Assistant
Noma Security today revealed it has discovered a critical security flaw in the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant made available by Docker, Inc. Sasi Levi, security research lead for Noma Security, said the ...

