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.

AWS Tightens EKS and AWS Marketplace Integration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made available an extension of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) service that makes it simpler to add software downloaded from the AWS Marketplace for Containers ...

Survey Shows Significant Spike in Kubernetes Use
A survey of 500 full-time IT department employees finds more than three-quarters of respondents (79%) work for organizations that have increased their use of Kubernetes clusters over the last two years, with ...

Datadog Report Surfaces Kubernetes Management Challenges
Datadog’s analysis of 1.5 billion containers run by its customers finds that the most widely employed instance of Kubernetes is version 1.21 which officially reached end-of-life earlier this year. The report suggests ...

DH2i Adds Container Sidecar Option to SQL Server HA Platform
DH2i has made generally available a container sidecar option for the version of its high-availability platform for Microsoft SQL Server databases deployed on Kubernetes clusters. Previously, the DxEnterprise (DxE) platform could only ...

Red Hat Updates App Modernization Toolkit for OpenShift
Red Hat has made generally available an update to the tools it provides for migrating monolithic Java applications to Kubernetes environments. The update adds tags that make it easier to classify monolithic ...

Project Sylva Initiative Lays Cloud-Native Foundation for Telco Services
At the ONE Summit North America 2022 event this week, the Linux Foundation Europe consortium launched an open source Project Sylva framework that leverages cloud-native platforms such as container network functions (CNFs) ...

Canonical Adds MindSpore AI Framework to Kubeflow Distribution
At the Open Source Experience Paris conference, Canonical this week announced it has integrated MindSpore, an open source deep learning framework developed by Huawei, with its distribution of the open source Kubeflow ...

Solo.io Makes Integrated Application Networking Push
Solo.io has launched a Gloo Platform that combines an application programming interface (API) gateway, service mesh and other networking technologies into a unified application networking platform. Brian Gracely, vice president of product ...

Traefik Labs Cloud Service Simplifies Cloud-Native Networking
Traefik Labs has made a cloud service generally available through which IT teams can network Kubernetes clusters at scale. Traefik Labs CEO Emile Vauge says Traefik Hub employs a lightweight open source ...

Grafana Labs Allies With Isovalent to Improve Cloud-Native Observability
Grafana Labs and Isovalent have integrated open source Grafana dashboards with the Cilium network overlay for containers that runs at the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) microkernel level of the Linux operating ...