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.

Loft Labs SDK Extends Virtual Clusters to Build Plug-Ins
Loft Labs today added a plug-in capability and associated software development kit (SDK) that collectively make virtual clusters running on Kubernetes platforms more extensible. Lukas Gentele, Loft CEO, says the goal is ...

Cloud-Native Security Posture Management
Lightspin CEO Vladi Sandler talks with Mike Vizard about how cloud security posture management (CSPM) is challenging in cloud-native computing environments. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation ...

Cloudera Data Platform Uses Containers for Private Cloud
Cloudera today launched an edition of its data processing and management platform that takes advantage of containers to run on a private cloud. Santiago Giraldo, senior director of product marketing for data ...

Tigera Adds Scanning Engine to CNAPP for Kubernetes
Tigera today announced the addition of a scanning engine to its Calico Cloud service that will continuously assess images for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in addition to managing interactions among microservices running on ...

Komodor Unifies Tools for Troubleshooting K8s
Komodor this week launched an open source project, dubbed Validkube, that promises to simplify Kubernetes troubleshooting. Itiel Shwartz, Komodor CTO, says Validkube is an amalgamation of three existing projects that are now ...

Catalogic Software Secures Data Protection for Kubernetes
Catalogic Software today announced general availability of an update to its CloudCasa data protection service that adds the ability to scan for misconfigurations in both Kubernetes environments and cloud services provided by ...

Virtualizing Kubernetes Clusters to Boost Productivity
In this episode of View With Vizard, fresh from picking up $4.6 million in financing, Loft CEO Lukas Gentele talks with Mike Vizard about how virtualizing Kubernetes clusters increases IT productivity. The ...

Buoyant Survey Surfaces Service Mesh Shifts
A survey published this week finds more than a quarter (28%) of organizations have already swapped out the service mesh platform they initially adopted. Among those that have switched, 80% had been ...

Red Hat Adds Data Foundation to OpenShift Platform Plus Suite
Red Hat today announced it is adding Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation to the Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus suite. The Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus suite includes Red Hat’s add-on technologies ...

Docker Inc. Dev Tools Boast 15 Million+ Users
Docker Inc. revealed today that two years after selling its enterprise business to Mirantis to focus its efforts on developers, there are now more than 15 million active users of its tools ...