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.

Rafay Systems Adds Templates to Provision Kubernetes Environments
Rafay Systems today added an Environment Manager to its portfolio to simplify the self-service process for developers provisioning full-stack cloud-native software running on a Kubernetes cluster. Mohan Atreya, senior vice president of ...

Oracle Adds Virtual Nodes to Managed Kubernetes Service
Oracle today added a virtual nodes capability to Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes to make it simpler for IT teams to add additional capacity as needed. In addition, Oracle is extending the ...

Ermetic Adds Kubernetes Support to CNAPP
Ermetic has added Kubernetes support to its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that enables IT and cybersecurity teams to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations and risky or excessive privileges. Amy Ariel, ...

PerfectScale Unfurls SaaS Edition of AI Platform to Control K8s Costs
PerfectScale this week launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its namesake platform that employs machine learning algorithms to identify usage patterns that better enable IT teams to control Kubernetes costs. Brendan Cooper, ...

VMware Extends Kubernetes Reach to Bare Metal Platforms
At the Mobile World Congress conference, VMware today extended its Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework to make it possible to run disaggregated and virtualized radio access network (RAN) functions directly on ...

Red Hat Pushes OpenShift to the Network Edge
At the Mobile World Congress, Red Hat today extended its effort to make the Kubernetes-based Red Hat OpenShift platform a foundation for edge computing by extending alliances with NVIDIA and partnerships with ...

Red Hat Donates Kepler Tool for Tracking Power Usage to CNCF
At the Mobile World Congress event today, Red Hat launched an open source project to capture power usage metrics from Kubernetes clusters. The Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter (Kepler) is a project ...

Isovalent Update Advances Cilium Networking
Isovalent has delivered an update to the open source Cilium network overlay for Kubernetes environments that adds support for the Gateway application programming interface (API) for Kubernetes along with integration with the ...

TCO For a Cloud-Native Environment? $5.6 Million
A report published today by OutSystems, a provider of a low-code platform for building applications, estimates the total cost of building and maintaining a cloud-native IT environment is, on average, $5.6 million ...

Tigera Looks to Secure Kubernetes Runtime Environments
Tigera today added a Calico Runtime Threat Defense platform for securing Kubernetes runtimes using a combination of signature and behavior-based techniques. Utpal Bhatt, chief marketing officer for Tigera, says this latest addition ...