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.
CrowdStrike Details Sophisticated Container Cryptojacking Campaign
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference today, CrowdStrike revealed details of a complex cryptojacking campaign targeting vulnerable Docker and Kubernetes infrastructure. The campaign employs a combination of an obscure domain ...
Quali Simplifies Provisioning of Kubernetes Clusters
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Quali today announced its Torque platform for managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has added the ability to detect drift in the Helm Charts used to configure ...
Red Hat Enlists Lockheed Martin to Bring AI to K8s Edge
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Red Hat and Lockheed Martin today announced a collaborative effort to build and deploy AI-infused Kubernetes applications on edge computing platforms. At the core ...
Loft Labs Integrates Argo CD With Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Loft Labs announced it has integrated the virtual instances of the Kubernetes clusters it enables with the open source Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform ...
Mirantis Adds Support for GCP and Ceph Storage to Container Platform
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Mirantis today announced it is adding support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to the managed instances of Kubernetes clusters it provides. In addition, Mirantis ...
Docker, Inc. Adds Support for Wasm to Docker Desktop Tools
Docker, Inc. today announced at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that developers will be able to use their Docker Desktop environments to build applications using Web Assembly (Wasm) software artifacts ...
Sysdig Adds Kubernetes Cost Monitoring Tool to Portfolio
Sysdig today adds a Cost Advisor module for Kubernetes clusters to its portfolio of tools for managing and securing container environments. Aaron Newcomb, director of product marketing for Sysdig, says as an ...
Survey: More Complex Stateful Apps Running on K8s
A global survey of 501 IT professionals published today by the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) consortium finds organizations are now running more complex analytics (67%) and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine ...
Kubecost Adds SaaS Edition to Control Kubernetes Costs
Kubecost today announced limited availability of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of a Kubernetes cost management platform. The Kubecost Cloud platform is based on the open source OpenCost software originally developed by parent ...
CircleCI Embraces Containers to Simplify CI/CD Deployments
CircleCI this week relased a container edition of its self-hosted runner software that will make it simpler for DevOps teams to deploy the on-premises edition of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) ...

