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.
Nutanix Unfurls PaaS Based on Kubernetes
Nutanix today unveiled at its online .NEXT 2020 conference a managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment based on an instance of Kubernetes that enables IT teams to deploy a PaaS on-premises in a local ...
Google Brings Confidential Computing to GKE Service
Google announced today that it is making available confidential computing nodes that encrypt data while it is processing in beta on the managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) service. At the same time, ...
etcd Data Store Project Key to Scaling Kubernetes Clusters
The etcd distributed key/value store is starting to play a key role in the management of fleets of Kubernetes clusters in the enterprise. Currently an incubation-level project being advanced under the auspices ...
Fairwinds Adds Open Source Interface for Kubernetes Backup and Recovery
Fairwinds, a provider of managed IT services, has launched an open source project that layers a user interface on top of the VolumeSnapshot application programming interface (API) that is available in beta ...
Kublr Allies With cloudtamer.io To Rein in Kubernetes Costs
Kublr, a provider of a management platform for Kubernetes clusters, has teamed with cloudtamer.io to help IT organizations rein in costs stemming from deploying Kubernetes clusters on public clouds. As IT organizations ...
AWS Fires Bottlerocket Linux for Container Apps
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced the general availability of Bottlerocket, a lightweight instance of Linux optimized for container applications running on the AWS cloud. Peder Ulander, director for open source ...
VMware: Java Apps Moving to Kubernetes
The rate at which containerized Java apps are being deployed on Kubernetes platforms continues to accelerate, according to a report published today by VMWare. Based on a survey of 1,024 IT professionals ...
Latest Docker Container Attack Highlights Remote Networking Flaws
A security flaw that provides a backdoor through which Docker containers can be compromised via unsecured remote connections may require IT teams to revisit their approach to DevSecOps. At the core of ...
Kasten Extends Data Management Reach Across Kubernetes Clusters
Kasten has expanded the number of templates it makes available for its K10 Enterprise Data Management platform as part of an ongoing effort to make it easier to move data between different ...
Cisco Expands Kubernetes Networking Ambitions
Cisco has launched a Cloud-Native SD-WAN (CN-WAN) project to show how Kubernetes clusters can be automatically mapped to a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). CN-WAN defines a set of components to integrate ...
