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.
Spectro Cloud Survey Surfaces Kubernetes Challenges
A survey published today of 167 IT executives finds that while 77% of respondents have been working with Kubernetes clusters in some form for the past two years, only 40% have deployed ...
Docker, Inc. Accelerates Updates to Tools Portfolio
Docker, Inc. has revealed that Docker Desktop for Linux (DD4L) is now available via a developer preview program and that an updated version of the Docker Compose tool for building applications spanning ...
Mirantis Launches Integrated Container Platform as a Service
Mirantis has launched an as-a-service container platform with a cloud platform based on Kubernetes that is capable of running both monolithic and microservices-based applications. Company CEO Adrian Ionel says the Mirantis Flow ...
Kubermatic Extends Open Source K8s Management Platforms
Kubermatic has updated both the open source Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) and KubeOne platform for cluster life cycle management as part of an effort to make it simpler to manage fleets of ...
CNCF Promotes Crossplane to Advance Hybrid Cloud Computing
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has elevated the open source Crossplane platform for managing both Kubernetes clusters and legacy IT platforms to become an incubation ...
Palo Alto Networks Details Exploit of Microsoft ACI Service
The Unit 42 research arm of Palo Alto Networks has revealed how it discovered vulnerabilities in the multitenant Kubernetes clusters hosted on the Azure Container Instances (ACI) cloud service provided by Microsoft ...
Kubeflow Pipelines on Tekton Advance MLOps
The maintainers of Kubeflow, a machine learning operations (MLOps) platform built on top of Kubernetes, have made available a 1.0 release of Kubeflow Pipelines on Tekton (KFP-Tekton) project based on the same ...
GitGuardian Investigation Finds Secrets in Docker Images
A report published by GitGuardian, a provider of security tools for scanning Git repositories, finds that out of 2,000 images pushed to Docker Hub, a total of 7% contained at least one ...
Canonical Uses Containers to Deploy Android Appliance on AWS
Canonical today announced it has made available an instance of an Anbox Cloud Appliance that is deployed using containers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Simon Fels, engineering manager at Canonical ...
Lacework Labs Finds Backdoors in Container Images
Cloud security platform provider Lacework this week published a report that reveals cybercriminals are now creating backdoors in legitimate container images. Lacework Labs reports it has discovered that a threat actor, dubbed ...

