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.
KCNA Certification Addresses Kubernetes Skills Shortage
The Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) have combined their respective training expertise to create a Kubernetes certification for IT professionals. IT professionals that pass the Kubernetes and Cloud ...
IBM Makes Container Registry Available for the Mainframe
IBM has made available a container registry through which mainframe application developers can discover free open source container images that can be accessed via a graphical or command line interface (CLI). As ...
DataCore Acquires MayaData to Expand Storage Portfolio
DataCore Software announced today it has acquired MayaData to add a container storage platform to its portfolio of software-defined storage (SDS) offerings. Previously, DataCore was providing funding to MayaData along with forming ...
Loft Labs Makes Virtual K8s Clusters More Accessible
Loft Labs today updated its open source platform for virtualizing Kubernetes clusters to make it possible to use templates to pre-configure virtual clusters on behalf of application development and deployment teams. Administrators ...
OutSystems Previews Low-Code Platform on Kubernetes
OutSystems today revealed it has launched a Project Neo initiative as part of an effort to provide a low-code application development platform based on Kubernetes that makes it simpler for organizations to ...
Red Hat Tightens Integration Between Podman and RHEL
Red Hat today made generally available an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that adds full support for the Podman tool. Podman is used for managing containers and pods on Kubernetes ...
CNCF Advances Longhorn Distributed Block Storage Platform
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to advance the Longhorn distributed block storage system for Kubernetes to the next level. Longhorn was originally developed ...
Microsoft Extends Cloud-Native Portfolio
At its online Ignite 2021 conference this week, Microsoft expanded its portfolio of tools and platforms for building cloud-native applications using containers to include a preview of Azure Container Apps, a fully ...
Chronosphere Adds Query Builder Tool Based on PromQL
Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform for cloud-native applications based on microservices, this week added support for a Query Builder tool based on the Prometheus query language (PromQL). That capability comes ...
Knative Middleware Reaches 1.0 Milestone
The committee that oversees the development of Knative, open source middleware for integrating Kubernetes clusters with serverless computing frameworks, announced today that a 1.0 release is now available. Omer Bensaadon, a senior ...
