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.
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 ...
CNCF Embraces Dapr to Simplify Building Distributed Apps
The Technical Oversight Committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed today that Dapr, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it simpler to build distributed applications, has become ...
SUSE Makes NeuVector Container Security Platform Open Source
SUSE has acquired NeuVector to add an enterprise-grade container security tool to its cloud-native computing portfolio. That will soon become available as open source software, the company says. Sheng Liang, president of ...
Canonical Extends Reach of MicroK8s
Canonical has updated its lightweight distribution of Kubernetes, known as MicroK8s, to add support for version 1.22 of Kubernetes in addition to making available in beta a version that now runs on ...
Aqua Security Report Reveals Container Attack Blast Radius
An analysis of 105 victims of malicious container images published today by Aqua Security today finds just over a third (36%) of hosts had multiple severe vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could be ...
Portworx by Pure Storage Extends K8s Data Protection
Portworx by Pure Storage has updated its backup and recovery platform to add an ability to offload backups from CSI snapshots to object storage platforms. IT teams can now also back up ...
DoKC Report Sees Stateful App Surge on Kubernetes
A report published by the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) finds 70% of respondents report they are now running stateful applications on Kubernetes clusters with another 20% saying they expect to see ...
TriggerMesh Makes Integration Platform Open Source
TriggerMesh this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference revealed it is making the TriggerMesh Integration Platform based on Kubernetes available under an open source Apache Software License 2.0. Mark ...
