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.

Akamai Acquires Fermyon to Further Advance Wasm Adoption

Akamai Technologies this week acquired Fermyon to add a serverless computing framework for building and deploying Web Assembly (Wasm) applications to its portfolio. Akamai and Fermyon formed an alliance earlier this year ...

Mike Vizard | December 2, 2025 | Akamai, Fermyon, serverless computing, Wasm

vCluster Adds Virtual Kubernetes Reference Architecture for GPUs

vCluster Labs has made available a reference architecture for incorporating graphical processor units (GPUs) running artificial intelligence (AI) workloads into virtual Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO Lukas Gentele said the Infrastructure Tenancy Platform ...

Mike Vizard | November 25, 2025 | AI, GPUs, kubernetes, Reference Architecture, vCluster Labs

kubernetes, survey, Dapr, CNCF, Survey Finds Growing Container Security Concerns

Survey Surfaces Myriad Kubernetes Networking Challenges

New survey data shows Kubernetes networking complexity rising, with teams struggling across observability, egress, multi-cluster security, and tool sprawl—highlighting the growing need for platform engineering and unified networking approaches ...

Mike Vizard | November 17, 2025 | cloud-native networking, container networking, debugging, devops, eBPF, egress control, Kubernetes clusters, Kubernetes networking, Kubernetes security, load balancing, microservices, multi-cluster networking, network management complexity, network transparency., observability, platform engineering, SRE

Prometheus, kubernetes, CNCF Promotes Prometheus Container Monitoring

Open Source KServe AI Inference Platform Becomes CNCF Project

The CNCF adopts KServe to strengthen cloud-native AI inference on Kubernetes as platforms like Red Hat OpenShift AI expand model-as-a-service capabilities ...

Mike Vizard | November 13, 2025 | AI gateway, AI inference on Kubernetes, AI model registry, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CNCF incubator, Edge AI deployment, KServe, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025, Kubeflow, Kubernetes AI workloads, LLM serving on Kubernetes, Model-as-a-service, vLLM

kubernetes, network, logistics, security, Traefik Tigera container security Calico Red Hat Dynatrace

Google Extends Kubernetes Service to Safely Run Agentic AI Workloads

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Google unveiled major GKE upgrades — including an AI sandbox, inference gateway, pod snapshots, and 130,000-node clusters — to optimize and secure agentic AI workloads ...