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.
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 ...
Loft Labs Adds Cluster API Support for Virtual K8s Clusters
Loft Labs has added support for the Cluster application programming interface (API) to make it simpler to programmatically spin up virtual clusters on a shared instance of a Kubernetes platform. Lukas Gentele, ...
SUSE Integrates Container Security Platform With Rancher
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, SUSE announced it has made the NeuVector container security platform available as an open source product. That platform has also been submitted to the ...
Red Hat Delivers on Open Source Security Promise for K8s
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, Red Hat this week made good on a promise to make Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes available as an open source project ...
Datadog Extends Kubernetes Observability Reach
During the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, Datadog added support for the Datadog Operator for Kubernetes, Amazon EKS Blueprints Add-On, Helm integration and OpenTelemetry Span Ingestion to its container monitoring service ...
New Relic Dives Deeper Into Kubernetes Observability
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, New Relic revealed it has added a more streamlined approach to collecting metrics using the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) in the Linux kernel ...
Deepfence Adds Managed Service to Secure Runtime Environments
Deepfence today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference unveiled a managed cloud service through which IT teams can discover vulnerabilities in runtime environments. Owen Garrett, head of products and community ...
Red Hat Expands GitOps Portfolio for Building Microservices
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference today, Red Hat unveiled a preview of pipelines-as-code for Tekton with the latest release of Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) ...

