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.
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 ...
Venafi Adds Kubernetes Support to Certificate Management Platform
Venafi this week added an ability to manage Kubernetes cluster identities to the control plane it currently provides, extending zero-trust down to individual machines using the transport layer security (TLS) protocol. Shivajee ...
AtomicJar Unveils Testcontainers Cloud Service
AtomicJar this week made available a public beta of a cloud service based on a lightweight open source Testcontainers framework. The framework uses Docker containers to create more real-world testing environments by, ...
Orgs Struggling With Kubernetes Management Challenges
A report based on analysis of more than 150,000 workloads running in Kubernetes clusters deployed by hundreds of different organizations finds organizations are not following best practices for managing cloud-native application environments ...
Vaadin Brings Java Framework to Kubernetes Clusters
Vaadin has updated its Java application development framework to make it simpler to deploy stateful applications on Kubernetes clusters and in cloud computing environments. Version 23.3 of Vaadin Flow now includes two ...
