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.
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 ...
Docker, Inc. Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Alliances
Docker, Inc. celebrated the 10th anniversary of the namesake artifact used widely for building cloud-native applications by announcing alliances with Ambassador Labs to improve the developer experience and Hugging Face to make ...
Backslash Security Unveils Tool to Visualize Cloud-Native Code Flows
Backslash Security emerged from stealth today to provide IT teams with a visual tool that identifies workflows in cloud-native code that could lead to a security breach. Fresh from raising $8 million ...
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 ...

