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 Simplifies Running VMs on Kubernetes
Rafay Systems has made it easier to deploy virtual machines encapsulated in containers on top of a Kubernetes cluster. Mohan Atreya, senior vice president of product and solutions for Rafay Systems, says ...
Weaveworks Acquires Magalix to Secure GitOps in K8s Environments
Weaveworks today announced it has acquired Magalix to improve Kubernetes security within the context of a GitOps workflow. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. GitOps is a methodology for deploying ...
Sysdig Report Reveals Container Security, Cost Issues
Sysdig, Inc. today published a report that finds, among other issues, 85% of the container images running in production environments contain at least one vulnerability. Three-quarters of those vulnerabilities (75%) are rated ...
Loft Labs Adds K0s Support to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
Loft Labs today announced it has added support for the kOs lightweight distribution of Kubernetes to its open source vcluster software. The vcluster software was developed by Loft Labs to enable deployment ...
Open Source NeuVector Container Security Platform Now Available
SUSE this week made good on a promise to open source the NeuVector container security platform it acquired last year. Sheng Liang, president of engineering and innovation for SUSE, says an open ...
Dell Extends Kubernetes Reach of APEX Managed Services
Dell Technologies today announced support for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Kubernetes distribution and the Rancher framework from SUSE used to manage Kubernetes clusters. The announcement is part of an effort by ...
Mirantis Container Image Registry Now Supports Any K8s Distro
Mirantis this week updated its private container image registry to enable it to be deployed on any distribution of Kubernetes. Previously, the Mirantis Secure Registry was only available for Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, ...
SUSE Announces Harvester HCI Platform Based on Kubernetes
SUSE announced an open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform, dubbed Harvester, is now generally available. Harvester is based on Kubernetes and other open source technologies the company is advancing. Sheng Liang, president ...
HUB Security Adds Docker Security to Encryption Platform
HUB Security has added a Docker Digital Twin platform that secures, authenticates and verifies traffic created by Docker containers running on an encrypted hardware platform. Noam Dror, vice president for worldwide solution ...
VMware Delivers on PaaS Promise for Kubernetes
VMware today announced general availability of VMware Tanzu Application Platform for building and deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters at a higher level of abstraction. Ajay Patel, general manager for the modern applications ...

