Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.


Best of 2024: Civo Acquires Kubefirst to Advance GitOps in Kubernetes Environments
Cloud services provider Civo acquired Kubefirst to provide ongoing support for a framework for implementing GitOps best practices ...

Best of 2024: AI Emerges as Next Major Kubernetes Challenge
AI is a dominant theme of KubeCon, as data science teams encounter complexity challenges as cloud-native application developers ...

Best of 2024: JFrog Reveals Docker Hub Compromise Spanning Millions of Repositories
Malware attacks against millions of Docker Hub repositories have been underway since 2021. Assume all the content you host on a publicly accessible repository might be compromised ...

Nuon Emerges to Makes Porting SaaS Applications to Other Clouds Simpler
Nuon this week emerged from stealth to provide early access to a bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) platform that leverages containers and other cloud-native technologies to make it simpler to move software-as-a-service (SaaS) application software ...

Latest Kubernetes Update Makes Platform Simpler to Scale
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes has released an update, codenamed Penelope, that advances efforts to improve dynamic resource allocation (DRA) in addition to deprecating the previous method used for scaling ...

Survey Surfaces Raft of Cloud Native Application Security Challenges
Venafi, a unit of CyberArk, today published a survey of 800 security and IT decision-makers in the U.S. and Europe finds 86% of respondents work for organizations that have experienced a security ...

Mirantis Adds KubeVirt to Further Streamline Management of Kubernetes Environments
Mirantis has updated its lightweight instance of Kubernetes to include support for KubeVirt, an open-source tool that makes it possible to encapsulate virtual machines ...

Buoyant Update to Linkerd Service Mesh Makes Applications More Resilient
Buoyant this week added an ability to combine multiple services being accessed via the Linkerd service mesh across multiple Kubernetes clusters into a single logical service ...

Salesforce Preps Heroku PaaS for Kubernetes Environments
Salesforce this week announced that its Heroku platform-as-service (PaaS) environment now runs natively on Kubernetes clusters, starting with integrations with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Global Accelerator, ...

CNCF Graduates Cert-Manager to Help Streamline Certificate Workflows
The cert-manager project has officially been graduated by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) at a time when managing certificates has become more challenging than ever ...