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.
Cloud Foundry Updates PaaS Environment
During a Cloud Foundry Virtual Summit, the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) today announced that the instance of its open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that runs natively on Kubernetes has been updated to ...
Sysdig Acquires Apolicy to Automate Container Security
Sysdig today announced it intends to acquire Apolicy to add an ability to automate remediation of container infrastructure misconfigurations provisioned using tools such as Terraform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed ...
DH2i Extends SQL Server Platform to Containers
DH2i has made generally available a DxEnterprise (DxE) for Containers offering that employs micro-tunnel technology the company created to enable high availability between instances of Microsoft SQL Server databases running in the ...
Red Hat Marries Cluster Management Tool to GitOps
Red Hat this week updated the open source cluster management software it makes available for Kubernetes environments to make it simpler for IT teams to embrace GitOps best practices. Version 2.3 of ...
Platform9 Adds KubeVirt Service to Containerize VMs
Platform9 today unveiled a managed instance of KubeVirt, open source software that enables virtual machines to be deployed within a container that runs on a Kubernetes cluster. Chris Jones, a group product ...
Survey Suggests Devs not Completely Sold on Kubernetes
A survey of 1,000 developers finds half are using containers, with nearly three-quarters (73%) of those developers employing Kubernetes in a production environment. However, about half the respondents (47%) also noted the ...
Rapid7 Unifies Alcide and DivvyCloud in Single Platform
Rapid7 this week launched an InsightCloudSec platform that combines the cloud security posture management (CSPM) platform it gained with the acquisition of DivvyCloud last year and the Kubernetes security platform it gained ...
Container Security Threats Added to MITRE Attack Framework
Aqua Security is building a Container Framework that will be incorporated into a larger cybersecurity framework that MITRE Corp created to help organizations better defend themselves against cyberattacks. Assaf Morag, lead data ...
Sophos Acquires Capsule8 Security Platform for Linux Containers
Sophos this week announced it has acquired Capsule8, a provider of tools for securing runtimes on Linux servers and container platforms, as part of an effort to expand its current focus beyond ...
QCT Allies with Robin.io to Run Kubernetes at the Edge
Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), a provider of servers, has allied with Robin.io to create an integrated platform for running containerized applications on Kubernetes clusters deployed at the wireless 5G edge. Mehran Hadipour, ...
