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.

Tetrate Adds Curated Instance of Istio for EKS to Service Mesh Portfolio
Tetrate today unfurled a technical preview of a curated instance of the Istio service mesh designed to be simpler to deploy on the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cloud platform. David Wang, ...

CloudCasa by Catalogic Embraces Velero Data Protection Platform
CloudCasa by Catalogic today announced it has integrated its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for protecting Kubernetes data with Velero, an open source software project that is used to protect data on a local ...

Buoyant Brings Dynamic Requests to Linkerd Service Mesh Routing
Buoyant today released an update to the open source Linkerd service mesh that makes use of the Kubernetes Gateway application programming interface (API) to add dynamic request capabilities. That capability enables fine-grained ...

D2iQ Adds Government Edition of Kubernetes Management Platform
D2iQ has added an edition of its Kubernetes environment management platform tailored to meet the needs of government agencies. Dan Ciruli, vice president of product for D2iQ, said DKP Gov edition of ...

Upbound Unfurls Managed Crossplane Control Plane Service
Upbound today made generally available a namesake multi-tenant instance of a control plane management service based on the open source Crossplane project. Crossplane is an extension of the Kubernetes control plane that ...

VMware Tanzu Updates Simplify Kubernetes Management
VMware today simultaneously moved to make it simpler to build cloud-native applications and manage the fleets of Kubernetes clusters they are deployed on. Version 1.5 of VMware Tanzu, a curated distribution of ...

Nobl9 Unveils Open Source EKG Tool to Monitor Kubernetes
Nobl9 this week add an open source Essential Kubernetes Gauges (EKG) monitoring capability to that makes it simpler to track a range of metrics. Nobl9 CTO Alex Nauda says EKG provides IT ...

Fairwinds Automates Remediation of Kubernetes Misconfigurations
Fairwinds this week added an Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs) capability to its commercial platforms that identifies and automatically remediates Kubernetes misconfigurations. Joe Pelletier, vice president of product at Fairwinds, says this ...

Release Makes Shifting SaaS Apps to Private Clouds Simpler
Release today made generally available a Release Delivery platform that uses a container description to create a full environment that enables cloud applications to be deployed in a private cloud computing environment ...

Torc Acquires Codealike for Cloud-Native Developer Network
Torc has acquired Codealike to provide cloud-native application developers in its network with data that improves their skillsets. Torc CEO Mike Morris says Codealike complements other tools that Torc provides, including access ...