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.
Cloudian Adds Kubernetes Operator to Object Storage System
Cloudian today announced it has added support for an Operator to make it easier to provision its object-based storage platform in Kubernetes environments. Sanjay Jagad, senior director of products and solutions at ...
Prometheus Monitoring Ecosystem Begins to Mature
The ecosystem surrounding the open source Prometheus monitoring systems for Kubernetes clusters is starting to mature. Cortex, a scalable, highly available, multi-tenant storage platform for Prometheus, and Thanos, a metric system that ...
Rancher Labs Donates Lightweight Kubernetes to CNCF
Rancher Labs and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that a lightweight distribution of Kubernetes dubbed K3s has now become a sandbox-level project managed under the auspices of the open ...
Kubernetes 1.19 Arrives, a Tad Later Than Usual
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes tomorrow plans to release version 1.19 of the platform that, in addition to adding debugging and storage management tools, brings closure to some capabilities that ...
IBM Adds Compliance to Management Framework
IBM has extended its IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management offering for managing legacy IT environments from a Kubernetes cluster to now include compliance controls. Sai Zeng, a member of the principal ...
Carbon Relay Pushes AIOps Left Toward Developers of Container Apps
Carbon Relay has made available a free edition of an IT operations platform infused with artificial intelligence (AIOps) aimed at developers who want to identify potential issues before an application is deployed ...
Aqua Security Reveals Sophisticated Container Attack
An alert concerning a container image that was deployed on a honeypot managed by Aqua Security suggests cybercriminals are getting a lot more sophisticated when it comes to scanning for container vulnerabilities ...
CyberArk Discloses Potential Security Flaw in Kubernetes Agent Software
CyberArk, a provider of access management tools, today issued an advisory describing multiple potential misconfigurations of kubelet, the agent software that registers a Kubernetes node with an application programming interface (API) server, ...
Snyk Launches Tool to Address Kubernetes Configuration Issues
Snyk, at the at the online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 conference this week, launched a tool that discovers and helps remediate misconfigurations in Kubernetes clusters that were deployed using the open ...
CNCF: Cloud-Native Ecosystem Expansion Continues
The overall size of the cloud-native developer community appears to be now growing at a rate of roughly 28% annually, noted Priyanka Sharma, general manager for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), ...

