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 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 ...
Chainguard Launches Platform to Enforce Secure Containers
Chainguard today launched a platform that ensures only trusted container images are run on Kubernetes clusters to ensure the integrity of a software supply chain. Chainguard Enforce! is the first product from ...
Google Petitions to Donate Istio Service Mesh to CNCF
Google and the Istio Steering Committee today announced at an IstioCon 22 event that they have submitted the open source Istio service mesh for consideration to become an incubating project administered by ...
Report Surfaces Scope of Overspending in the Cloud
A report published today by CAST AI, a provider of a platform for optimizing cloud costs using machine learning algorithms for Kubernetes environments, finds that on average organizations are spending three times ...

