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.
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 ...
TrapX Security Brings Deception Platform to Container Environments
TrapX Security this week announced that its deception platform for misdirecting attacks against IT environments can now be deployed in container environments. Steve Preston, TrapX CEO, says version 7.2 of TrapX DeceptionGrid ...
Kubernetes 1.22 Arrives to Giveth and Taketh Away
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for Kubernetes announced today general availability of a 1.22 update that is likely to be remembered as much for what it gives as for what it takes ...
TriggerMesh Previews Integration Language Based on HCL
TriggerMesh has made available a preview of a TriggerMesh Integration Language (TIL) that makes it simpler to create and maintain integrations in Kubernetes environments by eliminating the need to rely on YAML ...
