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.
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 ...
Fairwinds Updates Kubernetes Cluster Monitoring Tool
Fairwinds this week made available an update to its Kubernetes cluster monitoring tool that is now integrated with the data collector employed by open source Prometheus monitoring software. In addition, Fairwinds Insights ...
Red Hat Updates VM Migration Features on OpenShift
Red Hat announced today it is making it easier for organizations to migrate existing virtual machines into a container that can be deployed on top of a Red Hat OpenShift platform based ...
Lightbend Akka Platform now on Amazon EKS
Lightbend today announced that the Akka platform it built for deploying distributed cloud-native applications is now available on the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). Mark Brewer, CEO, Lightbend, says for the first ...
GigaSpaces Platform Adds Kubernetes Operator
GigaSpaces, a provider of an in-memory computing platform, has added support for a Kubernetes Operator that makes it simpler to deploy and update its platform. Lee Blum, director of product management for ...
Solo.io Delivers Istio Management Framework
Solo.io today announced general availability of a framework for managing the open source Istio service mesh deployed on top of Kubernetes clusters. Idit Levine, Solo.io CEO, says Gloo Mesh Enterprise includes a ...
Jetstack Automates Kubernetes Certificate Management
Jetstack, a unit of Venafi, launched a platform dubbed Jetstack Secure through which IT teams can automate the management of certificates in Kubernetes environments. Matt Bates, Jetstack CTO, says that as more ...

