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.
Solo.io Adds GraphQL Support to Service Mesh, API Gateway
At a ServiceMeshCon/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event today, Solo.io announced it will add support for the GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (APIs) to the Gloo Mesh platform and the Gloo Edge ...
Docker, Inc. Sees Increased Pulls from Docker Hub
The number of pulls from Docker Hub in the second quarter increased to 42 billion in the second quarter of 2021, a 12 billion increase from the 30 billion pulls that Docker, ...
Nirmata Delivers Cloud-Native Policy Management Platform
Nirmata today announced general availability of the Nirmata Cloud Native Policy Management platform based on a Kyverno policy engine that runs natively in Kubernetes. Ritesh Patel, vice president of products for Nirmata, ...
VMware Expands Kubernetes Portfolio Based on Tanzu
At the online VMworld 2021 conference this week, VMware launched a series of initiatives to spur adoption of both microservices-based applications based on containers alongside monolithic applications residing on multiple clouds. In ...
Veeam Delivers on Kasten Data Protection Integration Promise
As part of an update to the Veeam Backup & Replication platform, Veeam Software today integrated the Kasten backup and recovery tools it acquired for Kubernetes environments with the management framework it ...
Kong and Styra Bring OPA to Service Meshes
Kong, Inc. and Styra, Inc. announced today that have allied to bring the Open Policy Agent (OPA) used to achieve compliance-as-code in cloud-native environments to both the open source Kuma service mesh ...
Buoyant Adds Support for Zero-Trust Policies to Linkerd
Buoyant today announced it has added additional capabilities to both the open source Linkerd service mesh for Kubernetes and the cloud-based management platform it provides to manage instances of the service mesh ...
Kasten by Veeam Extends Reach of K8s Data Protection Platform
Kasten by Veeam today updated its Kasten K10 data management platform for Kubernetes environments to make it simpler to deploy. In addition, Kasten K10 can protect computing platforms running the lighter-weight K3s ...
NeuVector Adds K8s Assessment Tool to Container Security Platform
NeuVector today announced it has added a configuration posture management and deployment assessment tool for Kubernetes resources to its namesake container security platform. Glen Kosaka, vice president of product management for NeuVector, ...
Pure Storage Adds DBaaS for Kubernetes Storage
Pure Storage unveiled a database-as-a-service (DBaaS)platform for Kubernetes environments, dubbed Portworx Data Services, that is designed to make it possible to provision a database with a single click. At the same time, ...

