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.
Kublr Integrates K8s Management Platform with Microsoft Arc
Kublr has extended the reach of its open source platform for managing Kubernetes to include integrations with the Microsoft Azure Arc service. Oleg Chunikhin, Kublr CTO, says Kublr worked closely with Microsoft ...
Solo.io BumbleBee Expands Access to eBPF Technologies
Solo.io has launched an open source BumbleBee project that makes it simpler for developers to take advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technologies that run within the kernel of an operating ...
Loft Labs Expands Kubernetes Support to Virtual Clusters
Loft Labs today announced it has updated its vcluster open source cluster virtualization software to add support for any vanilla distribution of Kubernetes. Previously, the open source vcluster project only supported the ...
Ambassador Labs Adds Free Tier to K8s App Dev Platform
Ambassador Labs has updated its app dev platform for building cloud-native applications to include a free tier for individual developers. The Ambassador Cloud is based on the Ambassador Developer Control Plane (DCP), ...
VMware Bets on PaaS to Change K8s Game in 2022
VMware is betting that the shift toward building microservices-based applications deployed on Kubernetes will accelerate in 2022 as higher levels of abstraction become more widely available and make the platform more accessible ...
Stackwatch Adds Spot Pricing Analytics to Kubecost Tool
Stackwatch has added spot pricing analytics to its open source Kubecost tool for Kubernetes cluster monitoring and management. The analytics features enable IT teams to identify which clusters are best suited to ...
Best of 2021 – U.S. Army to Build Software Factory Atop VMware Tanzu
As we close out 2021, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the seventeenth in our series of the Best of 2021. The ...
OpenELB K8s Load Balancer Plugin Becomes CNCF Sandbox Project
An OpenELB load balancer that plugs into Kubernetes clusters has become a sandbox level project under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Originally developed by the KubeSphere community, OpenELB ...
Azul Adds K8s-Based Cloud Service to Compile Java
Azul today unfurled a cloud service that makes it possible to leverage a Kubernetes-based cloud service to accelerate the compilation of Java code. Scott Sellers, Azul CEO, says Azul Intelligence Cloud offloads ...
D2iQ Survey Sees Increased Enterprise K8s Deployments
Kubernetes adoption in production environments has reached critical mass in the enterprise, with a D2iQ survey of 300 IT professionals finding more than half of respondents (53%) currently running Kubernetes in a ...

