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.
Knative Middleware Reaches 1.0 Milestone
The committee that oversees the development of Knative, open source middleware for integrating Kubernetes clusters with serverless computing frameworks, announced today that a 1.0 release is now available. Omer Bensaadon, a senior ...
CNCF Embraces Dapr to Simplify Building Distributed Apps
The Technical Oversight Committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed today that Dapr, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it simpler to build distributed applications, has become ...
SUSE Makes NeuVector Container Security Platform Open Source
SUSE has acquired NeuVector to add an enterprise-grade container security tool to its cloud-native computing portfolio. That will soon become available as open source software, the company says. Sheng Liang, president of ...
Canonical Extends Reach of MicroK8s
Canonical has updated its lightweight distribution of Kubernetes, known as MicroK8s, to add support for version 1.22 of Kubernetes in addition to making available in beta a version that now runs on ...
Aqua Security Report Reveals Container Attack Blast Radius
An analysis of 105 victims of malicious container images published today by Aqua Security today finds just over a third (36%) of hosts had multiple severe vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could be ...
Portworx by Pure Storage Extends K8s Data Protection
Portworx by Pure Storage has updated its backup and recovery platform to add an ability to offload backups from CSI snapshots to object storage platforms. IT teams can now also back up ...
DoKC Report Sees Stateful App Surge on Kubernetes
A report published by the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) finds 70% of respondents report they are now running stateful applications on Kubernetes clusters with another 20% saying they expect to see ...
TriggerMesh Makes Integration Platform Open Source
TriggerMesh this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference revealed it is making the TriggerMesh Integration Platform based on Kubernetes available under an open source Apache Software License 2.0. Mark ...
NetApp Promises Kubernetes-Native Unified Data Store
NetApp this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference announced it will soon make available a preview of a data store for containers and virtual machines that runs natively on ...
Dell Adds Open Source Storage Modules to K8s Portfolio
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference today, Dell Technologies announced it has made available six open source software modules for managing its storage arrays when they are attached to a ...

