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.
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 ...
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 ...

