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.

Rafay Systems Simplifies Running VMs on Kubernetes
Rafay Systems has made it easier to deploy virtual machines encapsulated in containers on top of a Kubernetes cluster. Mohan Atreya, senior vice president of product and solutions for Rafay Systems, says ...

Weaveworks Acquires Magalix to Secure GitOps in K8s Environments
Weaveworks today announced it has acquired Magalix to improve Kubernetes security within the context of a GitOps workflow. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. GitOps is a methodology for deploying ...

Sysdig Report Reveals Container Security, Cost Issues
Sysdig, Inc. today published a report that finds, among other issues, 85% of the container images running in production environments contain at least one vulnerability. Three-quarters of those vulnerabilities (75%) are rated ...

Loft Labs Adds K0s Support to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
Loft Labs today announced it has added support for the kOs lightweight distribution of Kubernetes to its open source vcluster software. The vcluster software was developed by Loft Labs to enable deployment ...

Open Source NeuVector Container Security Platform Now Available
SUSE this week made good on a promise to open source the NeuVector container security platform it acquired last year. Sheng Liang, president of engineering and innovation for SUSE, says an open ...

Dell Extends Kubernetes Reach of APEX Managed Services
Dell Technologies today announced support for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Kubernetes distribution and the Rancher framework from SUSE used to manage Kubernetes clusters. The announcement is part of an effort by ...

Mirantis Container Image Registry Now Supports Any K8s Distro
Mirantis this week updated its private container image registry to enable it to be deployed on any distribution of Kubernetes. Previously, the Mirantis Secure Registry was only available for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, ...

SUSE Announces Harvester HCI Platform Based on Kubernetes
SUSE announced an open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform, dubbed Harvester, is now generally available. Harvester is based on Kubernetes and other open source technologies the company is advancing. Sheng Liang, president ...

HUB Security Adds Docker Security to Encryption Platform
HUB Security has added a Docker Digital Twin platform that secures, authenticates and verifies traffic created by Docker containers running on an encrypted hardware platform. Noam Dror, vice president for worldwide solution ...

VMware Delivers on PaaS Promise for Kubernetes
VMware today announced general availability of VMware Tanzu Application Platform for building and deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters at a higher level of abstraction. Ajay Patel, general manager for the modern applications ...