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.
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 ...
Solo.io Donates API Gateway to CNCF to Advance Kubernetes Connectivity
Solo.io today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference revealed it is donating its application programming interface (API) gateway to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Gloo API Gateway runs natively on ...
Akamai Unveils Platform to Automate Software Deployment on Kubernetes Clusters
Akamai Technologies this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference launched a platform that enables organizations to invoke customizable templates to deploy applications on Kubernetes clusters in less than an hour ...
CNCF Launches Hero Challenge to Combat Patent Trolls
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in collaboration with The Linux Foundation launched an initiative to thwart patent trolls that have increasingly targeted open source projects such as Kubernetes ...
Pulumi Extends Ability to Manage Kubernetes Infrastructure
Pulumi today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference extended its support for Kubernetes environments to include an Operator that can now be hosted on its dedicated pod ...
