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.
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 ...
Cloud Foundry Foundation Adds Korifi PaaS Project for Kubernetes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) launched a beta of the open source Korifi platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for Kubernetes that is based mainly on code contributed by VMware. Ram Iyengar, developer advocate for ...
Fairwinds Melds Kubernetes Security and Governance
Fairwinds has updated its Kubernetes governance platform to include the ability to automatically scan YAML files and Helm charts stored in GitHub repositories. Announced at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 ...
Lacework Dives Deeper Into Kubernetes Security
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference this week, Lacework extended the reach of its security platform deeper into Kubernetes clusters. The latest update to Lacework’s Polygraph Data Platform adds support ...

