Mike Vizard is a veteran IT journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering the technology industry, having previously served as Editor-in-Chief of both CRN and InfoWorld and as editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he oversaw titles including eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline. Over his career he has also edited or contributed to a wide range of enterprise technology publications, including IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, ComputerWorld, TMCNet and Digital Review, and he later led editorial for CTOEdge.com. His reporting and analysis span software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT channel strategy and, more recently, artificial intelligence and DevOps practices. A recognized voice in enterprise IT journalism, Vizard is known for tracking emerging technology trends as they move from early adoption into mainstream enterprise use. He now serves as Chief Content Officer for Techstrong Group, where he oversees editorial strategy across the full network — DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Digital CxO, Techstrong.ai, TechStrong.IT, Techstrong Semi and PlatformEngineering.com — in addition to writing and hosting content for Techstrong TV and the Techstrong Gang podcast.
Docker Embeds Swarm in Docker Engine
For all the hype surrounding Docker containers, the fact remains that the number of IT organizations that have put in place a formal approach to manage them remains relatively small. At the ...
RightScale Survey Finds Many Containers Land on Virtual Machines
When Docker containers first came on the scene the general expectation was that they would emerge as a lighter weight alternative to traditional virtual machines. But as it turns out a new ...
VMware Taps Pivotal to Bundle Cloud Foundry with Photon Platform
At the core of the VMware strategy for being able to natively support containers is a VMware Photon Platform that consists of VMware Photon Controller, an open sourced distributed control plane, Photon ...
Puppet Launches Project Blueshift to Provide Bridge to Container Future
As part of a broader expansion of its core mission Puppet today announced the launch of a Project Blueshift initiative through which it will apply its IT automation framework to Docker, Kubernetes ...
VMware Advances Photon Controller Project
When it comes to containers VMware is pursuing a two-pronged strategy. One is via the existing VMware hypervisor on which containers can be deployed. The other involves a PhotonOS project based on ...
Intel to work with CoreOs, Mirantis and Google to Integrate Kubernetes and OpenStack
In a development that promises to have major implications for how private clouds are ultimately built and managed, Intel, CoreOS and Mirantis this week revealed they are working with Google to port ...
Mesosphere Delivers on Promise of Marathon Container Orchestration Framework
As part of a concerted effort to make container orchestration a natural extension of a modern framework for holistically managing the entire IT environment, Mesosphere today announced that version 1.0 of Marathon, ...
