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.
Platform9 Simplifies Kubernetes Cluster Management
Platform9 has updated its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing Kubernetes clusters to support multiple versions of Kubernetes clusters simultaneously. As IT organizations deploy Kubernetes clusters in greater numbers, over time, many of ...
VMware Makes Persistent Data Available Via Kubernetes API
VMware announced today general availability of a vSAN Data Persistence Platform, through which Kubernetes clusters will be able to access data stored in VMware platforms. Developed in collaboration with Cloudian and MinIO, ...
Rapid7 Acquires Alcide in Bid to Unify Security
Rapid7 this week announced it has acquired Alcide, a provider of a platform for securing Kubernetes, for $50 million as part of an effort to unify cybersecurity across multiple platforms. Brian Johnson, ...
Survey Sees Spike in Container Adoption on Kubernetes Platforms
A survey of 156 attendees at the recent virtual KubeCon North America 2020 conference suggests the rate at which containers are deployed on Kubernetes clusters is accelerating. The survey, conducted last November ...
Chaos Engineering Testing Correlates with Kubernetes Adoption
A survey of 400 IT professionals finds a high correlation between organizations that have adopted Kubernetes and those that have implemented chaos engineering techniques to ensure availability and decrease recovery times in ...
Veritas Leverages Kubernetes to Scale-Out Data Protection
Veritas Technologies is embracing scale-out computing with the release of its NetBackup 9 data protection platform, launched this week. The decision to rebuild its backup and recovery platform on Kubernetes paved the way for ...
Linkerd Service Mesh to Get a Steering Committee
The organizations that maintain the Linkerd service mesh announced today they will create a steering committee to direct how the open source service mesh evolves. Linkerd, originally developed by Buoyant, Inc., has ...
SUSE Hails Update to Longhorn Storage Project
SUSE today is touting an update to the Longhorn file system software for Kubernetes environments that allows users to leverage a Kubernetes-native storage solution in low-powered hardware at the edge. Longhorn was originally developed by ...
Red Hat Adds Data Protection to Container Storage Platform
Red Hat today announced its OpenShift Container Storage software now includes data protection capabilities. Pete Brey, marketing manager for hybrid cloud storage at Red Hat, says version 4.6 of Red Hat OpenShift ...
JFrog, Docker Partner to Streamline Software Supply Chains
JFrog and Docker, Inc. announced today they are working toward tightening integration between their respective offerings to reduce DevOps friction and make software development more efficient. Under the terms of the alliance, ...
