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.
Survey Surfaces Raft of Cloud Native Application Security Challenges
Venafi, a unit of CyberArk, today published a survey of 800 security and IT decision-makers in the U.S. and Europe finds 86% of respondents work for organizations that have experienced a security ...
Mirantis Adds KubeVirt to Further Streamline Management of Kubernetes Environments
Mirantis has updated its lightweight instance of Kubernetes to include support for KubeVirt, an open-source tool that makes it possible to encapsulate virtual machines ...
Buoyant Update to Linkerd Service Mesh Makes Applications More Resilient
Buoyant this week added an ability to combine multiple services being accessed via the Linkerd service mesh across multiple Kubernetes clusters into a single logical service ...
Salesforce Preps Heroku PaaS for Kubernetes Environments
Salesforce this week announced that its Heroku platform-as-service (PaaS) environment now runs natively on Kubernetes clusters, starting with integrations with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Global Accelerator, ...
CNCF Graduates Cert-Manager to Help Streamline Certificate Workflows
The cert-manager project has officially been graduated by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) at a time when managing certificates has become more challenging than ever ...
Grafana Labs Extends Observability Deeper Into Kubernetes Environments
Grafana Labs is leading an effort to update an open source Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart tool that will soon be able to send data to multiple destinations, in addition to providing built-in ...
Cloud Foundry Foundation Adds Marketplace to Korifi PaaS for Kubernetes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) has created an online marketplace for applications built using Korifi, an open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that is designed to be deployed on Kubernetes clusters ...
CNCF Provides Access to Reference Architectures for Cloud-Native Use Cases
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has published a report that defines guidance reference architectures, in addition to guidance to help IT teams better identify which open-source software projects are mature enough ...
Red Hat to Donate Podman Along With Other Container Tools to CNCF
Red Hat at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference announced its intent to donate multiple tools for creating and managing containers, including Podman, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ...
CNCF Graduates Dapr to Help Improve Developer Productivity
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference announced that the open-source Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) has officially graduated ...
