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.
Torc Acquires Codealike for Cloud-Native Developer Network
Torc has acquired Codealike to provide cloud-native application developers in its network with data that improves their skillsets. Torc CEO Mike Morris says Codealike complements other tools that Torc provides, including access ...
Docker, Inc. Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Alliances
Docker, Inc. celebrated the 10th anniversary of the namesake artifact used widely for building cloud-native applications by announcing alliances with Ambassador Labs to improve the developer experience and Hugging Face to make ...
Backslash Security Unveils Tool to Visualize Cloud-Native Code Flows
Backslash Security emerged from stealth today to provide IT teams with a visual tool that identifies workflows in cloud-native code that could lead to a security breach. Fresh from raising $8 million ...
Rafay Systems Adds Templates to Provision Kubernetes Environments
Rafay Systems today added an Environment Manager to its portfolio to simplify the self-service process for developers provisioning full-stack cloud-native software running on a Kubernetes cluster. Mohan Atreya, senior vice president of ...
Oracle Adds Virtual Nodes to Managed Kubernetes Service
Oracle today added a virtual nodes capability to Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes to make it simpler for IT teams to add additional capacity as needed. In addition, Oracle is extending the ...
Ermetic Adds Kubernetes Support to CNAPP
Ermetic has added Kubernetes support to its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that enables IT and cybersecurity teams to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations and risky or excessive privileges. Amy Ariel, ...
PerfectScale Unfurls SaaS Edition of AI Platform to Control K8s Costs
PerfectScale this week launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its namesake platform that employs machine learning algorithms to identify usage patterns that better enable IT teams to control Kubernetes costs. Brendan Cooper, ...
VMware Extends Kubernetes Reach to Bare Metal Platforms
At the Mobile World Congress conference, VMware today extended its Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework to make it possible to run disaggregated and virtualized radio access network (RAN) functions directly on ...
Red Hat Pushes OpenShift to the Network Edge
At the Mobile World Congress, Red Hat today extended its effort to make the Kubernetes-based Red Hat OpenShift platform a foundation for edge computing by extending alliances with NVIDIA and partnerships with ...
Red Hat Donates Kepler Tool for Tracking Power Usage to CNCF
At the Mobile World Congress event today, Red Hat launched an open source project to capture power usage metrics from Kubernetes clusters. The Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter (Kepler) is a project ...
