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.
Microsoft Adds Bevy of Cloud-Native Services to Azure
At its Build conference this week, Microsoft added a slew of capabilities to make it simpler to build, deploy and manage cloud native applications in its Azure cloud computing service, including a ...
Red Hat Adds Interconnect and Cybersecurity Services for Kubernetes
Red Hat today added a Red Hat Service Interconnect to its portfolio that is based on an open source Skupper.io project that enables Layer 7 networking between application components running on different ...
Dell Extends Managed Services Reach to Red Hat OpenShift and K8s Storage
Dell Technologies announced it extended its alliance with Red Hat to include an instance of Red Hat OpenShift delivered as a managed service. In addition, at its Dell Technologies World conference, the ...
Rafay Systems Adds Backstage Plugin to K8s Management Platform
Rafay Systems added support for the open source Backstage application developer portal to its Kubernetes management platform. Abhinav Mishra, senior product manager for Rafay Systems, said Backstage plugins for the Rafay Kubernetes ...
Lightbend Unfurls Distributed Akka Platform for Asynchronous Apps
Lightbend today launched a distributed cluster environment for deploying asynchronous Java applications based on its Akka toolkit. James Townley, senior product manager for Akka at Lightbend, said the Akka Distributed Cluster makes ...
KSOC Publishes SBOM Specification for Kubernetes
Kubernetes Security Operations Center (KSOC) this week published a Kubernetes Bill of Materials (KBOM) specification that promises to make it simpler to discover vulnerabilities. KBOM, available via an open source command line ...
Red Hat Extends Scope of Podman Container Tool for IT Admins
Red Hat today added a systems roles capability to its Podman tool for developing, managing and running containers on Linux platforms. This capability aims to make it simpler for administrators to automatically ...
Nutanix Unveils Data Management Platform for Kubernetes
At its .NEXT conference today, Nutanix added a data management platform for Kubernetes environments running stateful cloud-native applications. In addition, the company launched Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver a portfolio ...
SUSE Looks to Extend Reach of Rancher Platform
SUSE has updated its Rancher management platform for Kubernetes to make it simpler to extend the user interface to manage other elements of a cloud-native application environment. Peter Smails, general manager of ...
KSOC Unveils Security Posture Management Platform for Kubernetes
Kubernetes Security Operations Center (KSOC) has launched a security posture management platform that surfaces current and historical cyberattack activity in addition to providing remediation guidance. Jimmy Mesta, KSOC CTO, said that real-time ...
