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.
AWS Opens Marketplace for Container Software
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced at the AWS re:Invent conference it has created a marketplace through which IT organizations can access container images that can be deployed on any distribution of Kubernetes ...
Red Hat, IBM Deliver Managed Process Mining Service on OpenShift
Red Hat, IBM and Celonis today announced general availability of a managed service based on the Celonis Execution Management System (EMS) running on an instance of Red Hat OpenShift in the Amazon ...
Weaveworks Delivers on GitOps Enterprise Promise
Weaveworks today announced that the Weave GitOps Enterprise platform for accelerating the delivery of cloud-native applications in Kubernetes environments is now generally available. At the same time, the company has updated the ...
KubeSphere Update Provides More Control over GPUs
The maintainers of the open source KubeSphere framework for managing Kubernetes clusters have released an update that now makes it possible to also monitor and manage the consumption of graphical processor units ...
KCNA Certification Addresses Kubernetes Skills Shortage
The Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) have combined their respective training expertise to create a Kubernetes certification for IT professionals. IT professionals that pass the Kubernetes and Cloud ...
IBM Makes Container Registry Available for the Mainframe
IBM has made available a container registry through which mainframe application developers can discover free open source container images that can be accessed via a graphical or command line interface (CLI). As ...
DataCore Acquires MayaData to Expand Storage Portfolio
DataCore Software announced today it has acquired MayaData to add a container storage platform to its portfolio of software-defined storage (SDS) offerings. Previously, DataCore was providing funding to MayaData along with forming ...
Loft Labs Makes Virtual K8s Clusters More Accessible
Loft Labs today updated its open source platform for virtualizing Kubernetes clusters to make it possible to use templates to pre-configure virtual clusters on behalf of application development and deployment teams. Administrators ...
OutSystems Previews Low-Code Platform on Kubernetes
OutSystems today revealed it has launched a Project Neo initiative as part of an effort to provide a low-code application development platform based on Kubernetes that makes it simpler for organizations to ...
Red Hat Tightens Integration Between Podman and RHEL
Red Hat today made generally available an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that adds full support for the Podman tool. Podman is used for managing containers and pods on Kubernetes ...

