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.
F5 Networks to Acquire Volterra to Push Apps to the Edge
F5 Networks announced it intends to acquire Volterra, which provides a platform for managing hybrid cloud computing environments, for $500 million. During an analyst call, F5 Networks CEO François Locoh-Donou highlighted Volterra’s ...
Platform9 and MayaData Team Up on Kubernetes Storage
Platform9, a managed Kubernetes services provider, has teamed up with MayaData to make it easier to access persistent data on Kubernetes clusters. Platform9 has also added a Platform9 Managed Bare Metal service ...
CNFs to Drive Container App Deployment on 5G Networks in 2021
The widespread availability of next-generation 5G wireless networking services will drive a wider range of containerized applications to edge computing platforms in 2021. Most of those 5G networking services will be accessed ...
New Year, More Kubernetes Vulnerabilities
Now that Kubernetes clusters are being deployed more widely in production environments, the level of attention being paid by cybersecurity researchers to a new platform in the enterprise will surely increase in ...
Best of 2020: OpenStack’s Complicated Kubernetes Relationship
As we close out 2020, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our series of the Best of 2020 ...
Survey Shows Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry Synergies
A survey of 176 IT professionals published this week by the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) finds over two-thirds of respondents (69%) are now running Kubernetes and the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment ...
IBM Integrates iter8 With Kiali Interface for Istio
IBM and its Red Hat subsidiary have combined their respective expertise to make it easier to deploy microservices across the Istio service mesh using iter8, an open source project IBM created that ...
IBM Throws Weight Behind Crossplane Project
An open source project that makes it easier to deploy and manage applications at scale on multiple Kubernetes clusters called Crossplane has reached a 1.0 milestone at the same time IBM is ...
IBM Extends Red Hat OpenShift Alliance with Samsung
IBM and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd today announced they will extend their existing alliance into the realms of edge computing, 5G, hybrid cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) that at its foundation ...
Red Hat Adds Support for Windows Containers
Red Hat today announced it has made an instance of the Red Hat OpenShift application development and deployment platform based on Kubernetes available that can run Windows Containers. Stu Miniman, director of ...
