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.
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 ...
AWS Extends GuardDuty Reach to Cloud-Native Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week extended the reach of its Amazon GuardDuty cybersecurity threat detection service to its Kubernetes distribution and the Lambda serverless framework in addition to Amazon Aurora databases ...
D2iQ Simplifies Management of Fleets of Kubernetes Clusters
D2iQ has updated its Kubernetes management platform to make it simpler to transition from managing a single cluster to managing fleets of clusters. The updates are compatible with multiple distributions of Kubernetes, ...
Red Hat Focuses Konveyor Efforts for Kubernetes on App Modernization
Red Hat has revamped the open source Konveyor project it launched in collaboration with IBM to focus more specifically on tools and processes that enable existing legacy Java applications to run on ...
Traefik Labs Adds API Hub for Kubernetes Environments
Traefik Labs has launched a hub for Kubernetes environments that makes it simpler to publish, secure and manage application programming interfaces (APIs). Traefik Labs CEO Emile Vauge says Traefik Hub is compatible ...
