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.
Hot Log4jShell Fix from AWS Needs a Fix on Kubernetes Clusters
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week, after being alerted by Unit 42 security researchers at Palo Alto Networks, made available an update to a hot fix for the Log4jShell vulnerability found in ...
Canonical Expands Ubuntu Container Image Portfolio
As part of an update to its Ubuntu operating system, Canonical has added Grafana Loki, Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra container images to the portfolio of images to which it provides long-term ...
Sysdig Shines Spotlight on Container Vulnerabilities Based on Level of Risk
Sysdig today made available a Risk Spotlight tool as part of its cloud service for securing and monitoring container environments that makes it easier to prioritize the vulnerabilities that need to be ...
WSO2 Unfurls Choreo Integration Service for Cloud-Native APIs
WSO2 has made generally available Choreo, a cloud service for integrating cloud-native microservices based on Kubernetes, Docker containers and Envoy proxy software. Asanka Abeysinghe, chief technology evangelist for WSO2, notes that IT organizations ...
VMware Updates Tanzu Platform to Ease K8s App Deployments
VMware has made generally available an update to its Tanzu Application Platform that makes it simpler to deploy and manage application workloads across multiple Kubernetes clusters. In addition, VMware includes support for ...
Loft Labs Better Isolates Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
Loft Labs has added an isolation capability to its open source virtual cluster software that enables multiple application workloads to more easily share the same Kubernetes cluster. Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs CEO, ...
Ridge, Hivelocity Ally on Managed Bare-Metal Service
Hivelocity, a provider of cloud services, and Ridge, a provider of managed services, today announced an alliance to make available a bare-metal platform for running cloud-native applications. Jonathan Seelig, chairman and chief ...
Docker, Inc. Raises $105M for Product Development
Docker, Inc. today revealed it picked up an additional $105 million in financing that, among other things, will be applied to extending the reach of the Docker container application development tools that ...
Garden.io Framework Simplifies Cloud-Native App Dev
Garden.io today formally launched a graph-based framework that makes it simpler to track the relationships between components as DevOps teams deliver applications in a cloud-native environment running on Kubernetes clusters. Fresh from ...
Contrast Security Integrates AppSec Platform With OpenShift
Contrast Security has integrated its vulnerability scanning and runtime application self-protection (RASP) portfolio with the Red Hat OpenShift platform for building cloud-native applications. Jeff Williams, Contrast Security CTO, says this integration makes ...

