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.
IBM Allies with GitLab to Advance AI Development on Red Hat OpenShift Platform
GitLab and IBM today announced that GitLab’s continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform will become an element of IBM’s Cloud Pak offerings. IBM specifically created Cloud Paks to enable IT teams to build ...
Slim.ai Applies AI to Optimize Containers Before Being Deployed
Fresh off raising $6.6 million in seed funding, Slim.ai this week launched a namesake DevOps platform that makes use of machine learning algorithms to resize and optimize containers before they are deployed ...
Sysdig Report Surfaces Shifts in Container Adoption
An annual “Container Usage and Security Report” published today by Sysdig finds there has been a significant shift in terms of the types of container engines organizations are employing. Based on an ...
Grafana Labs Adds Free Prometheus Monitoring Tier
Grafana Labs today announced it has added a free tier to its Prometheus monitoring cloud service that enables IT organizations to more easily monitor a fleet of Kubernetes clusters. Tom Wilkie, vice ...
Red Kubes Makes Community Edition of Kubernetes Configuration Platform Open Source
Red Kubes announced today it is making the community edition of the Otomi Container Platform available as an open source project. The Otomi Container Platform automates the deployment of a curated Kubernetes ...
Isovalent Looks to Transform Container Networking With eBPF
The way network packets are processed is about to dramatically change for the better, as more Linux distributions integrate extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) capabilities in 2021. Rather than processing packets in ...
Red Hat Acquires StackRox to Strengthen Container Security
Red Hat this week announced it is acquiring StackRox, which provides a suite of tools for securing Kubernetes clusters. Ashesh Badani, senior vice president for cloud platforms, says Red Hat will make ...
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 ...
