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.
High Correlation Between Containers and Node.js Usage Seen
There is a very high correlation between developers that have embraced Node.js to develop applications and usage of containers. A new survey of 1,405 IT professionals published by The Node.js Foundation finds ...
IBM Intros Cloud Cost Analysis Tool to Drive Container Use
IBM has unfurled a Cloud Brokerage Services Cost and Asset Management software-as-a-service (SaaS) application in response to the rising popularity of container adoption within on-premises IT environments. While many IT organizations once ...
Qualys Extends Monitoring Reach to Docker Containers
At a Gartner Security and Risk Management conference today, Qualys announced it has extended its continuous monitoring service to support Docker containers. Qualys developed a container sensor that can be distributed as ...
Forrester: Rise of Containers Forcing IT Automation
Now that 31 percent of IT organizations are deploying containers, Forrester Research says it’s only a matter of time before IT operations that continue to rely on manual process will be overwhelmed ...
Puppet Labs Makes Containers Visible
One of the things that makes IT organizations uncomfortable with containers is their lack of visibility into them. Most legacy tools IT organizations have in place today were deployed long before developers ...
Microsoft: Microservices Driving New Era of Computing
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference this week told developers that a new era of computing enabled by the rise of microservices and artificial intelligence (AI) applications is ...
Mesosphere Extends Data Services Reach
As critical as container orchestration itself might be, most IT organizations view that capability as the means to a larger end. To drive that point home even further, Mesosphere this week has ...
Aqua Security Nanosegments Container Security
Most of the attention paid thus far to container security has been focused on scanning images for potential vulnerabilities. But there’s a world of difference between identifying vulnerabilities and being able to ...
With Photon, VMware Advances Container Agenda
VMware is continuing to extend the reach of its effort to host cloud-native applications with the release of 1.1 update to its Photon Platform that enables microservices based on containers such as ...
CoreOS Taps Redspread Founders for Kubernetes
As an open-source container orchestration engine, Kubernetes enjoys broad industry support. The challenge is, it is a technology designed primarily for engineers by Google engineers. But since Google decided to make Kubernetes ...
