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.
Solo.io Streamlines Istio Service Mesh Deployment
Solo.io today revealed it is making several moves to make it easier to employ the open source Istio service mesh on top of Kubernetes clusters in conjunction with other tools for managing ...
ARMO Tool Determines Security Posture of Kubernetes Clusters
ARMO has made available a Kubescape tool for testing whether Kubernetes clusters have been deployed securely. The Kubescape tool uses guidance for hardening the platform provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) ...
The Challenges of Kubernetes Storage
In this episode of The View with Vizard, Cloudian CTO Gary Ogasawara joins host Mike Vizard to explain the challenges of Kubernetes storage. The video is below, followed by a transcript of ...
Cisco Acquires Epsagon for Greater Observability
Cisco is adding the ability to monitor applications based on containers and serverless computing frameworks to its portfolio via the acquisition of Epsagon, a provider of an observability platform for cloud-native applications ...
Cloudera Taps Kubernetes to Automate Cloud Data Flows
Cloudera this week launched a Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud offering that employs Kubernetes to orchestrate the data flows required to process streaming workloads on the Cloudera Data Platform. Initially, Cloudera ...
Assessing the True Cost of Kubernetes
In this episode of The View with Vizard, Mike Vizard talks with D2iQ CTO Deepak Goel who explains how to assess the true total cost of Kubernetes. The video is below, followed ...
Anchore Delivers Container Security Integration for GitLab
Anchore has made its open source Grype vulnerability scanner tool for containers generally available for DevOps teams that are running the latest version of the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Anchore ...
IBM Boosts Container Performance on z/OS Mainframes
IBM has enhanced z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) to make them both easier and faster as part of an effort to make it simpler to modernize z/OS-based mainframe environments. The extension to z/OS ...
The Time for Unikernels is Now
In this episode of The View With Vizard, NanoVM CEO Ian Eyberg explains why the time to employ unikernels to make IT more secure has arrived. The video is below, followed by ...
Kong Updates Service Mesh to Replace Load Balancers
Kong today announced the general availability of version 1.4 of Kong Mesh that the company says could eliminate the need for traditional load balancers in decentralized IT environments running microservices-based applications. Marco ...
