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.

Cisco Outshift Focuses on Cloud-Native Tools and Platforms
Cisco today added an observability platform optimized for cloud-native applications along with a security life cycle management offering, dubbed Panoptica, to a portfolio of tools it has rechristened Outshift. Announced at a ...

Remote.It Adds Ability for Containers to Share Network Services
Remote.It this week added a Docker Network Jumpbox capability to enable containers to share access to network services via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Remote.It CEO Ryo Koyama said the network management platform ...

Mirantis Adds Ability to Centrally Manage Lens Dev Environments
Mirantis this week added the ability to centrally manage deployments of the enterprise edition of its Lens tools for building container applications for Kubernetes clusters. Miska Kaipiainen, vice president of product engineering ...

KSOC Shares List of Top Eight Kubernetes Vulnerabilities
Kubernetes Security Operations Center (KSOC) has published a list of the eight Kubernetes vulnerabilities that are most likely to be exploited. The list is based on an Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) ...

Cosmonic Open Source Project Integrates Nomad and Cilium
Cosmonic has launched an open source Netreap project to integrate Nomad, an alternative for orchestrating containers from Hashicorp, with the Cilium networking overlay for cloud-native applications created by Isovalent. Dan Norris, head ...

Microsoft Adds Bevy of Cloud-Native Services to Azure
At its Build conference this week, Microsoft added a slew of capabilities to make it simpler to build, deploy and manage cloud native applications in its Azure cloud computing service, including a ...

Red Hat Adds Interconnect and Cybersecurity Services for Kubernetes
Red Hat today added a Red Hat Service Interconnect to its portfolio that is based on an open source Skupper.io project that enables Layer 7 networking between application components running on different ...

Dell Extends Managed Services Reach to Red Hat OpenShift and K8s Storage
Dell Technologies announced it extended its alliance with Red Hat to include an instance of Red Hat OpenShift delivered as a managed service. In addition, at its Dell Technologies World conference, the ...

Rafay Systems Adds Backstage Plugin to K8s Management Platform
Rafay Systems added support for the open source Backstage application developer portal to its Kubernetes management platform. Abhinav Mishra, senior product manager for Rafay Systems, said Backstage plugins for the Rafay Kubernetes ...

Lightbend Unfurls Distributed Akka Platform for Asynchronous Apps
Lightbend today launched a distributed cluster environment for deploying asynchronous Java applications based on its Akka toolkit. James Townley, senior product manager for Akka at Lightbend, said the Akka Distributed Cluster makes ...