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.

Mirantis Tightens Lens Integration with Managed K8s Services
Mirantis is previewing an update to its open source Lens integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it simpler for developers to access Kubernetes clusters managed by a third-party organization. Miska Kaipiainen, vice ...

Deloitte Managed Service Helps Build Cloud-Native AI Apps
Deloitte this week launched a managed service, based on a microservices architecture, that enables organizations to build cloud-native applications infused with artificial intelligence (AI). Jagadish Bandla, national leader of Deloitte’s SAP S/4HANA ...

VMware Adds Capability to Secure Container Runtimes
VMware this week announced it is making available container runtime security capabilities in a VMware Carbon Black Cloud Container Advanced Bundle. Shemer Schwarz, senior director of product management for VMware, says this ...

CNCF Accepts Knative Middleware for Serverless Frameworks
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today voted to accept Knative middleware as an incubating project for integrating Kubernetes clusters with serverless computing frameworks. Knative was ...

D2iQ Allies With Kong to Manage APIs on K8s Clusters
D2iQ has allied with Kong Inc. to make it simpler to provision and manage a service connectivity platform running on a Kubernetes cluster. Kong Inc. has been making a case for a ...

Appgate Extends SDP Reach to Kubernetes
Appgate’s software-defined perimeter (SDP) that controls access to IT platforms now includes support for Kubernetes clusters. Jason Garbis, chief product officer at Appgate, says the Appgate SDP extends a framework for creating ...

Survey Surfaces Cloud-Native Stress Points
A survey from Platform9, a managed Kubernetes service provider, finds that even as organizations embrace cloud-native technologies, concerns over security, management, high availability and observability remain. The survey, which polled more than ...

VMware Application Transformer Runs Legacy Apps in Containers
VMware has made generally available a tool that makes it simpler for IT teams to discover, analyze and then encapsulate legacy applications in containers. Ashok Aletty, vice president of engineering for modern ...

CNCF: Rise in Emerging Open Source Tech on K8s
A new report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in collaboration with Datadog, New Relic and Slashdata finds a wider range of emerging open source technologies are being deployed on top ...

Sysdig Allies With Snyk to Improve Container Security
Sysdig and Snyk are integrating their respective security technologies to enable organizations to better secure the entire container life cycle. Eric Carter, director of product marketing for Sysdig, says the integration of ...