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.
Buoyant Unfurls Beta of Linkerd Managed Service
Buoyant today added a service for managing instances of the open source Linkerd service mesh that is based on agent software it has developed. Buoyant CEO William Morgan says that while Linkerd ...
Container Security Challenges Impacting Pace of App Dev
A global survey finds 96% of respondents reporting their companies are experiencing cloud-native application challenges that are leading to slower deployment cycles, with more than two-thirds (67%) naming security as the top ...
CrowdStrike: DoS Attack Against Russia Uses Containers
CrowdStrike today revealed that it has detected the surreptitious use of containers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against IT assets in Russia and Belarus. A Docker honeypot set up by CrowdStrike, ...
Kubernetes 1.24 Release Arrives to Finally Deprecate Dockershim
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes today announced it released a long-anticipated update that formally removes support for a Dockershim interface that enables Docker, Inc.’s DockerEngine runtime to run on Kubernetes ...
IBM Taps Red Hat OpenShift to Modernize IBM i App Portfolios
IBM today adds an IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration development tool for the IBM i operating system that makes it simpler to build modern application environments running on IBM Power ...
Docker, Inc. Makes Transition to CRI Transparent for Developers
Docker Inc. has made an update to its Docker Desktop tool which replaces dockershim with cri-dockerd for version 1.24 of Kubernetes. Dave Scott, a staff software engineer at Docker, Inc. says that ...
Survey Sees IT Teams Taking Control of K8s Clusters
A survey of 776 software development and IT professionals published this week by VMware indicates IT operations teams and platform/cloud architects are assuming responsibility for managing Kubernetes clusters as they are deployed ...
CrowdStrike Adds Container Support to Cloud Security Platform
CrowdStrike today launched a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) based on its Falcon Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) offering that can now detect threats aimed at containers, prevent rogue containers from running and ...
New Relic Report Shows Lots of Java Apps Running in Containers
New Relic today published a state of the Java ecosystem report that finds more than 70% of Java applications in production environments are running inside a container. A much higher percentage of ...
CrowdStrike Details LemonDuck Cryptojacking Container Attack Campaign
CrowdStrike has published an alert detailing an active campaign that uses compromised containers to mine for cryptocurrency on Linux platforms launched via a botnet known as LemonDuck. LemonDuck is a cryptomining botnet ...

