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.

runtime, visibility, Chainguard, threat, cloud-native security, Venafi, security, sigstore, KubeCon, cloud-native, security, secure, Rubrik, Kubernetes, Cloud-Native Security Best Practices

Rubrik Extends Cloud-Native Protection Reach to Virtual Machines

Rubrik has extended its cloud-native protection reach to virtual machines making it simpler to protect data and recover different classes of applications running in a cloud-native environment ...

Mike Vizard | July 15, 2024 | cloud native, data, kubernetes, virtual machines

Akuity, SUSE, Nutanix, kubernetes, cycle, Mirantis, kubernetes, LoftLabs, vNode, Komodor, configurations, application, clusters, virtual, Red Hat, Kubernetes clusters, Komodor, kubernetes, clusters, kubernetes, IDPs, TLS, certificates, clusters, virtual clusters, Kubernetes, Kubernetes, vCluster CAST AI KBOM DoKC Platform9 Kubernetes

Mirantis Adds Resource Balancer to OpenStack for Kubernetes Platform

Mirantis today updates its instance of the OpenStack framework that runs on Kubernetes clusters to include an ability to dynamically schedule workloads to better optimize consumption of infrastructure resources ...

Mike Vizard | July 9, 2024 | costs, kubernetes, KVN, Mirantis, open source, open source community, OVN

Kubernetes, observability, tracing, kubernetes observability, Grafana labs, kubernetes, observe, tool, Datadog, data, observability, kubernetes Docker Granulate observability

Datadog Adds Automatic Kubernetes Scaling to Observability Platform

Datadog today at its Dash 2024 conference added a set of autoscaling capabilities for Kubernetes clusters that can be invoked via its observability platform. Available in beta, Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling capabilities will ...

Mike Vizard | June 26, 2024 | Datadog, IT infrastructure, kubernetes, observability

BellSoft, survey, CNCF, report, survey, openlogic, software, survey, CNCF, cloud-native, kubernetes, application security report

Survey Surfaces Cloud-Native Application Security Challenges

A global survey of 600 DevOps, engineering and security professionals finds more than two-thirds (67%) reporting their organization has delayed or slowed application development as a result of security concerns. Conducted by ...

Mike Vizard | June 21, 2024 | application security, cloud-native apps, DevSecOps, kubernetes, survey, vulnerabilities

platforms, cloud, native, Competition Among Container Platforms

Survey Surfaces Cloud-Native Complexity in the Enterprise

A survey of 760 IT leaders and engineers at organizations with more than 1,000 employees finds nearly three-quarters (72%) work for organizations that have deployed multiple cloud-native platforms, with 46% managing three ...

Mike Vizard | June 19, 2024 | cloud native, cloud-native applications, cloud-native platformss

developers, application, app developers, containers,

Docker Survey Surfaces Complex Application Development Landscape

A newly-published survey of app developers suggests that the lines between various architectures relied on to build applications are continuing to blur, and existing approaches will need to continue to evolve ...

Mike Vizard | June 11, 2024 | app developers, application development, containers, developers, open source software, software engineering

Spring Developer Community Embraces Kubernetes

What are developers thinking? Kubernetes is becoming a popular choice for deploying Java applications. Only 19% think AI is game-changing for development. Nine out of ten are building applications based on a ...

Mike Vizard | June 4, 2024 | Java, kubernetes, scale-to-zero, Spring framework

Survey Highlights Kubernetes Ascendancy in the Enterprise

Among survey respondents, 85% said they plan to move most of their VM workloads to Kubernetes, in large part because the VMware acquisition made them nervous ...

Mike Vizard | June 4, 2024 | broadcom vmware acquisition, Kubernetes adoption, survey, trends

docksec, devsecops, NVIDIA NIM, developers, AI, GenAI, cloud native developers Torc Trend Micro Advances DevSecOps via Kubernetes

NVIDIA Leverages Containers to Encapsulate AI Inference Models

Using NVIDIA NIM - essentially AI in a box - developers now have the ability to easily and quickly build GenAI applications for copilots, chatbots and more ...