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 Application Services Rides Azure Arc to Reach Kubernetes Clusters
Microsoft this week during its online Microsoft Build 2021 conference announced a preview of Azure application services, which leverages the Azure Arc management platform to extend the reach of a framework for ...
AWS Delivers on Amazon ECS Everywhere Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made generally available an instance of the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that can run in on-premises IT environments. Scott Sanchez, head of product marketing for ...
Docker, Inc. Rises to Meet Productivity and Security Challenges
During the online DockerCon Live 2021 event today, Docker, Inc. unveiled Docker Development Environments, a tool that makes it possible for developers to automatically create a virtual instance of their development environment ...
New Relic Integrates Pixie for Kubernetes Observability
During the online FutureStack 2021 conference today, New Relic announced it is integrating its open source Pixie observability platform for Kubernetes with the New Relic One platform. The company gained Pixie with ...
Upbound Advances Crossplane Control Plane for Hybrid IT Environments
Upbound has made generally available an Upbound Cloud service through which IT teams can manage clusters running a curated distribution of Crossplane, an open source control plane being advanced under the auspices ...
AWS Delivers Managed DevOps Environment for Container Apps
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made a managed AWS App Runner service for building container applications generally available. Scott Sanchez, head of product marketing for containers and serverless for AWS, says, ...
Confluent Makes Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes Easier
Confluent has extended its reach by making it possible to deploy a curated instance of the open source Kafka distributed event streaming software on top of a Kubernetes environment running in an ...
Pain Points Persist as Reliance on Kubernetes Rises
A survey of more than 1,097 IT professionals published this week finds 42% are running at least half of their business-critical applications on the Kubernetes platform, with roughly a quarter of respondents ...
Pure Storage Expands Portworx’s K8s Storage Reach
At its online Pure//Accelerate Digital event, Pure Storage today announced it has extended Portworx Enterprise to support clusters running the VMware Tanzu distributions of Kubernetes in addition to adding support for dynamic ...
Aqua Security Report Reveals Docker API Security Mess
Aqua Security published a report today that shows widespread cloud misconfiguration issues also extend to Docker containers. The report finds more than 40% of users had at least one misconfigured Docker application ...
