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.
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 ...
CNCF Advances Longhorn Distributed Block Storage Platform
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to advance the Longhorn distributed block storage system for Kubernetes to the next level. Longhorn was originally developed ...
Microsoft Extends Cloud-Native Portfolio
At its online Ignite 2021 conference this week, Microsoft expanded its portfolio of tools and platforms for building cloud-native applications using containers to include a preview of Azure Container Apps, a fully ...
Chronosphere Adds Query Builder Tool Based on PromQL
Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform for cloud-native applications based on microservices, this week added support for a Query Builder tool based on the Prometheus query language (PromQL). That capability comes ...
