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.
Red Kubes Adds Cloud Edition of Otomi Cloud-Native App Platform
Red Kubes today unfurled a cloud edition of its Otomi platform for building and deploying cloud-native applications based on open source software it integrated on behalf of customers. In addition, the company ...
ARMO Employs eBPF to Identify Severe Kubernetes Vulnerabilities
ARMO today announced it has added a capability to its Kubernetes security platform that makes it simpler to prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities based on their relevancy. Ben Hirschberg, ARMO CTO, says this ...
Red Hat Survey Surfaces Cloud-Native Cybersecurity Challenges
A global survey of 600 DevOps, engineering and security professionals published today by Red Hat finds more than two-thirds (67%) have delayed or slowed down deployment of Kubernetes clusters because of a ...
Cosmonic Integrates Wasm PaaS With Kubernetes
Cosmonic today added a Cosmonic Connect capability for integrating WebAssembly applications with platforms such as Kubernetes within a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that is now available as an open beta. Taylor Thomas, director ...
Logz.io Adds Trivy Scanning Tool to Kubernetes Observability Platform
Logz.io today extended the reach of its observability platform for Kubernetes environments to now include the Trivy tool for discovering issues with open source software packages and dependencies, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) issues and ...
Solo.io Extends Networking Reach Beyond Kubernetes
Solo.io today launched a preview of a unified control plane for dynamically managing network services that are accessed via diverse types of applications running in container environments, serverless computing frameworks and virtual ...
Canonical Simplifies Deployment of Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Canonical has made available a virtual appliance for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud based on its lightweight MicroK8s distribution of Kubernetes along with a Charmed Operator for open source Kubeflow software ...
ngrok Adds Kubernetes Support to Ingress-as-a-Service Platform
ngrok today added Kubernetes support to a cloud platform that makes it possible to provision ingress controllers via an application programming interface (API). Alan Shreve, ngrok CEO, says ngrok Ingress Controller for ...
Lightbend Adds Java SDK for Cloud-Native Kalix PaaS
Lightbend today adds a Java software development kit (SDK) for its Kalix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that makes it simpler to build and deploy cloud-native applications. Lightbend CEO Jonas Bonér says the SDK ...
StormForge Automates Right-Sizing of Container Applications
StormForge today added an ability to automatically right-size container environments to its platform for optimizing the consumption of Kubernetes resources. Yasmin Rajabi, vice president of product management for StormForge, says version 2.0 ...

