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.
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 ...
Latest Kubernetes 1.27 Release Provides More Control
The latest version 1.27 of Kubernetes adds a range of capabilities that promise to give IT teams more granular control over pods within individual clusters. Xander Grzywinski, release lead for this version ...
Cloud Foundry Foundation Advances Korifi PaaS for Kubernetes
This week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference, Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) made available an update to the Korifi edition of its open source Kubernetes-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that adds automatic ...
Cisco Adds More Cloud-Native App Networking Projects
At the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference, Cisco unveiled an open source Nasp service mesh extender that enables a service mesh running on Kubernetes to integrate applications running on edge devices, legacy ...
Fermyon Extends Key-Value Storage to Serverless Frameworks
Fermyon Technologies is extending the key-value storage capabilities it provides within its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for building WebAssembly (Wasm) applications to serverless computing frameworks. Announced at Cloud Native Wasm Day Europe, which ...
Is Kubernetes Fit For Purpose?
Are Kubernetes clusters fit to run many of the applications being deployed on them? That question became the focal point of a panel discussion yesterday in Seattle, Washington, hosted by Tetrate, a ...
Service Mesh Will Transform Network Management
As more cloud-native applications are deployed in production environments the need for application connectivity between highly distributed microservices is becoming more important. What is less clear is the profound impact the rise ...

