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.
CNCF Advances Flux CD Platform for Kubernetes Environments
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week made the open source Flux continuous delivery platform for Kubernetes environments an incubation-level project. Originally developed by Weaveworks, ...
Robin.io Adds Support for IBM Kubernetes Service
Robin.io, a provider of data management and storage software, designed to be deployed as containers, deepened its ties with IBM this week by announcing support for IBM Kubernetes Service (IKS). That move ...
Linkerd Update Simplifies Service Mesh Extensions
The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform. Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides ...
Tigera Previews Calico for Windows on Microsoft AKS
Tigera is making available a preview of open source Calico virtual networking and security software for running Windows in the Microsoft Azure Kubernetes (AKS) service. Amit Gupta, vice president of business development ...
D2iQ Eases Kubernetes ML Workload Deployment
D2iQ has made generally available a suite of open source software components that make it simpler to deploy machine learning workloads on Kubernetes clusters. Tobi Knaup, D2iQ CEO, says D2iQ Kaptain is ...
Microsoft’s Azure Arc Now Includes Machine Learning Services
Microsoft, at its online Ignite 2021 conference this week, extended the reach of its Azure Arc framework for managing Kubernetes environments to include artificial intelligence (AI) workloads deployed on edge computing platforms ...
Mavenir Taps Platform9 to Manage CNFs
Platform9 and Mavenir revealed today that Platform9’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing Kubernetes environments is being extended to manage container network functions (CNFs) deployed on Mavenir’s network infrastructure. The goal is to ...
Red Hat Partners With Mavenir on CNF Development
Red Hat has partnered with Mavenir to enable developers to employ the Red Hat OpenShift platform, based on Kubernetes, to build container network functions (CNFs) for open radio access networks (RAN). Ian ...
IBM Launches Cloud Satellite for Edge Computing
IBM today made generally available a managed Cloud Satellite edge computing service, based on Red Hat OpenShift, that now includes more than 65 partners, including Cisco, Dell Technologies, Intel and Lumen Technologies ...
Spectro Cloud Adds Support for Existing Kubernetes Clusters
Spectro Cloud today announced it is adding support for already installed distributions of Kubernetes to its management platform. Previously, the Spectro Cloud Kubernetes platform required IT organizations to install a distribution of ...

