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.
Red Hat Adds Cloud-Native Quarkus Runtime for Java Applications
Red Hat is making a version of its Quarkus runtime for deploying Java applications on Kubernetes that doesn’t require a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) available as part of its Red Hat Runtimes ...
Solo.io Picks Up $23M to Fuel Service Mesh Ambitions
Solo.io announced today it has picked up an additional $23 million in funding to further adoption of its application programming interface (API) gateway, Service Mesh Hub and Ingress controller for Kubernetes clusters, ...
Vamp Applies AIOps to Microservices on Kubernetes Clusters
Vamp, a provider of a platform based on machine learning algorithms for automating software release management, this week announced it has added a tool that surfaces recommendations to optimize Kubernetes environments based ...
IBM Looks to Make Container Pricing Consistent
IBM has moved to standardize the way it charges licensing fees for container technologies based on the number of virtual CPUs consumed. IT organizations for all IBM Certified Containers must acquire entitlements ...
Sysdig Dives Deeper into AWS Container Security
Sysdig announced today it has extended its alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide automated inline image scanning for AWS Fargate containers via the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). Sysdig claims ...
VMware Extends Tanzu Reach
VMware, at its online VMworld 2020 conference, today announced it is making the Tanzu platform based on Kubernetes available on VMware Cloud and committed to making available previews of instances of Tanzu ...
Red Hat, Samsung to Bring 5G to OpenShift
Red Hat and Samsung announced today they will collaborate on the building of 5G networking platforms based on Red Hat OpenShift. Ian Hood, chief technologist for global service providers at Red Hat, ...
Microsoft to Bring AKS Service to HCI Platforms
Microsoft this week at its online Ignite 2020 conference unveiled a series of updates to its portfolio of Kubernetes-based offerings, including a preview of an instance of Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) on ...
2nd Watch Adds Hybrid Anthos Practice to IT Services Portfolio
2nd Watch, a provider of IT services, has extended the reach of its practice to include Google Anthos, a hybrid cloud computing platform based on Kubernetes. The Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Anthos ...
Misconfigurations Tops List of Security Issues Hampering Kubernetes
A survey of 400 IT professionals published today by StackRox, a provider of a suite of tools for securing Kubernetes environments, finds that while adoption of Kubernetes is high, many organizations are ...

