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.
Solo.io Adds Developer Portal for Istio
Solo.io has launched a developer portal that promises to make it easier to catalog, manage and securely publish application programming interfaces (APIs) that are exposed via an instance of the Istio service ...
Red Hat Adds Java Runtime for Kubernetes to Subscription
Red Hat has made available Quarkus, a Java framework that runs natively on Kubernetes, available alongside other runtimes it includes as part of a Red Hat Runtimes subscription. Rich Sharples, senior director ...
Canonical Brings MicroK8s Kubernetes Distro to Windows, MacOs
Canonical this week announced it’s now possible to deploy its lightweight distribution of Kubernetes on both Windows and MacOS platforms. Alex Chalkias, a product manager for Canonical, says that while the MicroK8s ...
LFN Adds Container Networking PaaS for 5G Efforts
LF Networking (LFN), an arm of the Linux Foundation, has launched an open source platform-as-service (PaaS) environment as part of an effort to advance development of 5G wireless services. Arpit Joshipura, general ...
Rancher Labs Adds Support for Longhorn Storage on Kubernetes Clusters
Rancher Labs today announced the general availability of Longhorn, which provides Kubernetes clusters with access to block storage to enable IT organizations to deploy distributed stateful applications. Longhorn is open source software ...
CNCF Gets a New Boss
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today named Priyanka Sharma to be its general manager, replacing executive director Dan Kohn who will soon head up an effort by The Linux Foundation to ...
D2iQ Aims to Drive Down Cost of Embracing Kubernetes
D2iQ has made it easier for IT organizations to get started with Kubernetes via a starter kit priced starting at $25,000. Company co-CEO Will Freiberg says given the complexity of Kubernetes, many ...
Mirantis Makes First Update to Docker Enterprise
Mirantis today announced it is delivering its first update to the Docker Enterprise platform since acquiring it from Docker Inc. last fall. Version 3.1 of Docker Enterprise adds deeper integration with Kubernetes ...
Docker Inc. Extends Tools Alliance With Microsoft
Docker Inc. and Microsoft announced today tighter integration between Docker Desktop developer tools from Docker Inc. and Visual Studio (VS) Code developer tools from Microsoft and the container service running on the ...
Chef Simplifies Windows App Deployments on GKE
Chef has extended its support for Kubernetes to include support for instances of Windows Server running on the managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) service. Vikram Ghosh, vice president of business development for ...
