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.
Isovalent Update Advances Cilium Networking
Isovalent has delivered an update to the open source Cilium network overlay for Kubernetes environments that adds support for the Gateway application programming interface (API) for Kubernetes along with integration with the ...
TCO For a Cloud-Native Environment? $5.6 Million
A report published today by OutSystems, a provider of a low-code platform for building applications, estimates the total cost of building and maintaining a cloud-native IT environment is, on average, $5.6 million ...
Tigera Looks to Secure Kubernetes Runtime Environments
Tigera today added a Calico Runtime Threat Defense platform for securing Kubernetes runtimes using a combination of signature and behavior-based techniques. Utpal Bhatt, chief marketing officer for Tigera, says this latest addition ...
DoD Taps Sylabs and DeciSym for Test Framework Using Singularity Containers
The Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Test & Evaluation/Science & Technology (T&E/S&T) Program Office, in collaboration with the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) of the Department of Defense (DoD), has selected ...
JFrog Report Surfaces Container Adoption Surge
JFrog this week published a report that suggests application environments are evolving as more organizations embrace containers and memory-safe programming languages like Rust to build and deploy applications. The report is based ...
Mirantis to Integrate Shipa Acquisition With Lens IDE
This April, Mirantis will add automated application discovery, security and observability to its Lens Kubernetes Platform following its acquisition of Shipa. Shipa’s platform automatically creates all required Kubernetes objects and configuration files ...
CNCF to Add Another Security Certification
At the CloudNative SecurityCon North America 2023 conference today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that it will release a Kubernetes and cloud security associate (KCSA) certification. The KCSA certification will ...
Red Hat OpenShift Update Extends Reach of Operators for Kubernetes
Red Hat today released updates to the Kubernetes-based Red Hat OpenShift platform, adding Operators to simplify security, compliance and networking. In addition, Red Hat is adding support for instances of Arm processors ...
Sysdig Report Surfaces Major Lack of Container Security
A new Sysdig report finds 87% of container images have high-risk vulnerabilities of which 15% make their way into runtime environments. The report also finds that 71% of those vulnerabilities have a ...
Tetrate Extends Scope and Reach of Istio Service Mesh
Tetrate’s Brooklyn update to its distribution of the open source Istio service mesh automates deployment of security policies. In addition, high availability has now been extended across clusters, regions and clouds running ...
