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.
Docker Inc. Brings Desktop Dev Tools to M1-Based Macs
Docker Inc. today made generally available an edition of the Docker Desktop for Mac application development tool on macOS systems based on an M1 system-on-a-chip (SoC) that was developed, in part, using ...
Reining in Kubernetes Costs in the Cloud
IT organizations have been overprovisioning infrastructure since the dawn of IT, but a survey published today by StormForge, a provider of performance testing tools, suggests the addition of Kubernetes clusters to IT ...
CNCF Launches Integrated API Gateway and Ingress Controller Project
The technical oversight committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that an emissary-ingress gateway for application programming interfaces (APIs) and an ingress controller designed to run natively on Kubernetes, ...
SUSE Funds Cloud-Native Skills Scholarships
SUSE has announced it is sponsoring 300 online education scholarships to provide aspiring practitioners with free access to a cloud-native education program, dubbed the Cloud Native Application Architecture Nanodegree program, delivered by ...
Kubernetes 1.21 Addresses Raft of Enterprise Issues
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for Kubernetes today is releasing a 1.21 update that addresses a wide range of operational and security issues that should ultimately make the platform easier to manage ...
CyberArk Unveils Open Source Pen Testing Tool for Kubernetes
CyberArk today launched an open source penetration testing framework, dubbed Kubesploit, for testing Kubernetes environments. Eviatar Gerzi, a cybersecurity researcher at CyberArk Labs, says that as more instances of Kubernetes clusters are ...
MinIO Adds Kubernetes Operator for Object Storage Platform
MinIO, a provider of an object-based storage platform, announced today it has added an open source Operator tool that makes it easier for IT administrators to deploy its platform on Kubernetes clusters ...
VMware Adds Container Scanning Tool to Security Platform
VMware today announced it has added a VMware Carbon Black Cloud Container offering that makes it possible to scan containers and Kubernetes configurations within the context of a DevSecOps workflow. Shemer Schwarz, ...
IBM Delivers on Cloud Promise for Financial Services
IBM today announced that an IBM Cloud for Financial Services, built on the Red Hat OpenShift platform in collaboration with Bank of America, is now generally available. Hillery Hunter, vice president and ...
Esri Will Make ArcGIS Available on Kubernetes
Esri announced today that in the second quarter of this year it will make available an instance of its geospatial information system (GIS) that can be deployed on Kubernetes clusters. Philip Heede, ...

