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.

Kubecost Adds SaaS Edition to Control Kubernetes Costs
Kubecost today announced limited availability of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of a Kubernetes cost management platform. The Kubecost Cloud platform is based on the open source OpenCost software originally developed by parent ...

CircleCI Embraces Containers to Simplify CI/CD Deployments
CircleCI this week relased a container edition of its self-hosted runner software that will make it simpler for DevOps teams to deploy the on-premises edition of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) ...

Microsoft Extends Kubernetes Reach Beyond Azure
At its Ignite 2022 conference today, Microsoft launched a series of updates to its platforms for building and deploying cloud-native applications, including the ability to deploy Azure Kubernetes Service from the cloud ...

Spectro Cloud Strengthens Kubernetes Security at the Network Edge
Spectro Cloud has updated its Palette Edge platform with the option to include a distribution of Kubernetes optimized for the network edge. The latest version also adds tamperproof security capabilities for immutable ...

Veracode Adds Container Support to Security Tool for Developers
Veracode is launching an early access program through which it is adding support for containers to its Continuous Software Security Platform. Brian Roche, chief product officer for Veracode, says this offering will ...

IBM Doubles Down on Red Hat Kubernetes Storage Platform
IBM and Red Hat today reveal the core technologies within Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) will become the foundation for the next generation of the IBM Spectrum Fusion storage platform. Scott ...

Cloud-Native Apps Driving Major IT Data Crisis
A global survey of 1,303 CIOs and senior IT practitioners finds 71% of respondents believe the explosion of data produced by cloud-native technology stacks is beyond humans’ ability to manage. Conducted by ...

The Growing Appreciation for Service Mesh
A Buoyant survey published today finds a third (33%) of respondents have either deployed a service mesh in a production environment or are close to completing deployment. Another 62% say they are ...

Sysdig Report Reveals True Cost of Container Security Breaches
A Sysdig report published today finds that for every dollar cybercriminals generate through a cryptomining attack against a cloud container environment, victims end up paying a $53 bill. As a result, an ...

BellSoft Optimizes Java for Cloud-Native Platform
BellSoft today is adding a BellSoft Alpaquita Cloud Native Platform to its portfolio that makes it possible to more efficiently run Java applications encapsulated in containers. As part of that effort, the ...