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.
Traefik Labs Adds Hub to Simplify Container Networking
Traefik Labs today unveiled a cloud service that leverages agent software to simplify the provisioning of network services for containers. Manuel Zapf, a product manager for Traefik Labs, says Traefik Hub is ...
Cisco Unfurls Observability Cloud for Kubernetes Environments
At its Cisco Live! event this week, Cisco added an AppDynamics Cloud observability service that is optimized for microservices-based applications constructed using containers. Gregg Ostrowski, executive CTO for Cisco AppDynamics, says AppDynamics ...
Traefik Labs, HashiCorp Make Cloud-Native Apps More Accessible
Traefik Labs this week announced it has integrated its namkesake open source proxy software with the open source Nomad container orchestration platform created by HashiCorp. Nomad is designed to appeal to development ...
Kubernetes Adoption Paving a Path For Service Mesh
A global survey of 704 IT leaders finds that the more workloads organizations have running on Kubernetes clusters, the more likely it is they have also employed a service mesh as the ...
Mirantis Integrates Lens IDE With Docker Desktop
Mirantis and Docker, Inc. announced today that the open source Lens integrated development environment (IDE) for Kubernetes is now integrated with the Docker Desktop tools used by millions of developers to build ...
Kubecost Launches Open Source Project to Rein in K8s Costs
A tool for monitoring and optimizing spending on Kubernetes clusters developed by Kubecost has become an open source project. Alex Thilen, head of business development at Kubecost, says OpenCost is now available ...
Red Hat Partners With DOE Labs to Advance HPC Containers
Red Hat this week announced it has allied with multiple U.S. Department of Energy laboratories to advance the adoption of containers in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore ...
Shipa Module Surfaces K8s Security and Compliance Issues
Shipa today added a Shipa Insights module to its cloud platform to provide additional visibility into Kubernetes security and compliance policy enforcement across all workloads. Ravi Lachhman, field CTO at Shipa, says ...
Weaveworks Allies With Microsoft to Advance GitOps Adoption
At the Microsoft Build 2022 conference this week, Weaveworks and Microsoft announced that the Weave GitOps Flux 2 platform has been integrated with both the Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and the ...
Microsoft Expands Azure Services Portfolio for Containers
At the Microsoft Build 2022 conference, Microsoft today announced that Azure Container Apps, a serverless computing framework based on Kubernetes, is now generally available. At the same time, Microsoft revealed it has ...

