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.
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, ...
Statehub Unfurls Service for Moving Data Across K8s Clusters
Statehub, previously known as Replix.io, this week launched a private beta of a managed service through which IT teams can move data more easily between geographically distributed Kubernetes clusters. Michael Greenberg, head ...
Buoyant Preps to Manage Linkerd Service Mesh in the Cloud
Buoyant announced today it is making available a public beta of a cloud service through which multiple instances of the open source Linkerd service mesh can be managed. William Morgan, CEO of ...
Weaveworks Unveils Integrated GitOps Platform for Kubernetes
Weaveworks today launched open source and enterprise editions of a suite of offerings designed to make it simpler to apply GitOps best practices to the development and deployment of applications across fleets ...
Survey Surfaces Recent Spike in Kubernetes Costs
A survey of 178 IT professionals that have deployed Kubernetes finds just over two-thirds of respondents (68%) have seen an uptick in Kubernetes costs, with an equal number either relying on monthly ...
Canonical Survey Surfaces Kubernetes Challenges
A survey of 1,200 IT professionals conducted by Canonical that was published today finds close to half (46%) are employing Kubernetes in a production environment, but from an overall adoption perspective, many ...
Red Hat Readies Major DevOps Upgrade for OpenShift Platform
Red Hat today announced it will update the Red Hat OpenShift platform based on Kubernetes in July to add support for OpenShift Pipelines based on the open source Tekton software and an ...
Ambassador Labs Gives Devs More Kubernetes Control
Ambassador Labs this week unveiled a control plane that provides developers with the ability to programmatically orchestrate all the elements of a Kubernetes environment. Richard Li, Ambassador Labs’ CEO, says version 1.0 ...

