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.
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 ...
Finout Unfurls Governance Tools to Rein in Kubernetes Costs
Finout today launched a suite of cost governance tools designed to help IT teams limit the cost of deploying Kubernetes clusters without deploying agent software. Finout CEO Roi Rav-Hon says the tools ...
Tetrate Adds Curated Instance of Istio for EKS to Service Mesh Portfolio
Tetrate today unfurled a technical preview of a curated instance of the Istio service mesh designed to be simpler to deploy on the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cloud platform. David Wang, ...
CloudCasa by Catalogic Embraces Velero Data Protection Platform
CloudCasa by Catalogic today announced it has integrated its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for protecting Kubernetes data with Velero, an open source software project that is used to protect data on a local ...
Buoyant Brings Dynamic Requests to Linkerd Service Mesh Routing
Buoyant today released an update to the open source Linkerd service mesh that makes use of the Kubernetes Gateway application programming interface (API) to add dynamic request capabilities. That capability enables fine-grained ...

