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.

Virtana Buys OpsCruise to Bring Observability to Kubernetes
Virtana has added a Kubernetes observability platform infused with machine learning algorithms to its portfolio via the acquisition of OpsCruise. Jon Cyr, vice president of product management for Virtana, said OpsCruise has ...

Spot by NetApp Adds Argo to Cloud Operations Portfolio
Spot by NetApp today added a continuous delivery (CD) platform for Kubernetes environments to its portfolio of cloud operations management offerings. Kevin McGrath, vice president and general manager for Spot for NetApp, ...

AWS Extends Kubecost Alliance to Rein in K8s Costs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has extended its alliance with Kubecost to integrate a cost monitoring tool for Kubernetes with a managed instance of Prometheus monitoring software. Previously, AWS made the Kubecost cost ...

Red Hat Extends Commitment to Integrate OpenStack and K8s
At the OpenInfra Summit today, Red Hat announced that, in addition to supporting the latest iteration of the open source OpenStack, it is extending Red Hat OpenShift’s management reach to add support ...

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 ...