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.
Rafay Systems Provides Visibility Into GPUs on K8s Clusters
Rafay Systems has added a dashboard to its platform for managing Kubernetes clusters that gives IT teams more visibility into how graphical processor unit (GPU) resources are being consumed. Mohan Atreya, senior ...
Survey Surfaces Spike in Cloud-Native App Development
The results of a survey of 350 IT decision-makers and 350 developers that work with cloud-native environments suggest the number of cloud-native applications deployed over the next 12 months will significantly increase ...
How VMware Tanzu Changes the Cloud Computing Equation
Rajeev Bhardwaj, vice president for cloud provider software at VMware, talks with Mike Vizard about how he believes Kubernetes—in the form of VMware Tanzu—is changing the cloud computing equation. The video is ...
Anchore Extension Can Generate SBOMs for Container Apps
Anchore today added an extension to its software supply chain management platform for container-based applications that can automatically generate and continuously update a software bill of materials (SBOM). Kim Weins, senior vice ...
Weaveworks Brings Policy-as-Code to GitOps for K8s
Weaveworks today announced general availability of an update that embeds policy-as-code capabilities into its continuous delivery (CD) platform to improve application security. Those capabilities are based on technologies the company gained with ...
Catalogic, Backblaze Reduce K8s Data Protection Costs
Catalogic Software has partnered with Backblaze, a provider of cloud storage services, to reduce the cost of backing up Kubernetes data. Backblaze makes cloud storage available via an S3 application programming interface ...
Spectro Cloud Extends K8s Management Reach to the Edge
Spectro Cloud today extended the reach of its management framework for Kubernetes clusters to now include instances running on edge computing platforms. Tenry Fu, Spectro Cloud CEO, says Palette Edge is an ...
DataStax Extends Operator Reach for Databases
DataStax this week updated its Operator for K8ssandra, an instance of the open source Apache Cassandra database that runs natively on Kubernetes. Patrick McFadin, vice president of developer relations at DataStax, says ...
Equinix Metal Adds Cluster API to Tinkerbell Project
Equinix Metal today announced the addition of an application programming interface (API) for provisioning clusters on bare-metal servers to the Tinkerbell open source project. Tinkerbell is a bare-metal provisioning engine used to ...
Solo.io Extends Framework for Managing Istio Service Mesh
At its online SoloCon event, Solo.io announces updates to its Gloo Mesh Enterprise service mesh that add support for multi-tenant workspaces and improve support for virtual machines. In addition, Solo.io announced a ...

