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.
Mesosphere Embeds Marathon Container Orchestration in DC/OS
While Marathon may not draw as much attention these days as other container orchestration technologies, work surrounding the platform continues. With the latest version of the DC/OS platform from Mesosphere, the Marathon ...
Mirantis Acquires TCP Cloud to Advance Kubernetes Ambitions
Moving to accelerate the rate at which the OpenStack cloud platform can be hosted on the Kubernetes container orchestration platform, Mirantis today announced it has acquired TCP Cloud. Based in Prague, TCP ...
AppDynamics Adds Microservices Support to Monitoring
With more IT organizations starting to embrace microservices to construct applications, gaining visibility into those microservices is becoming a high priority for IT operations teams. To address that requirement, AppDynamics is now ...
Appreciating the Simplicity of Microservices
At first glance, microservices and containers seem more challenging to manage because of the thousands of isolated modules of code that accumulate over time. In reality, however, the secret to successfully deploying ...
Platform9 Preps Hosted Kubernetes Service
Most IT organizations have a tried and true response when exposed to new technologies. Eventually they want to master that technology, but they tend to look for outside help from managed IT ...
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 ...
