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.
AtomicJar Preps Managed Testcontainer Service
During an online JLove conference for Java developers, AtomicJar today announced it plans to make a number of enhancements and extensions available, via a private beta, of a managed instance of a ...
Couchbase Operator Automates Database Scaling on Kubernetes
Couchbase has extended the operator it created for deploying its namesake document database on Kubernetes clusters to add support for autoscaling to ensure performance levels in addition to enabling IT teams to ...
IBM Adds Databases to Managed Kubernetes Edge Service
IBM announced this week it is extending the scope of its managed IBM Cloud Satellite based on Kubernetes to include support for databases deployed on edge computing platforms. The IBM Cloud Databases ...
Red Hat Advances BPM on OpenShift
Red Hat today updated the Red Hat Process Automation platform as part of an effort to incorporate more elements of the open source Kogito project upon which future versions of the platform ...
Veritas Adds Kubernetes Support to NetBackup Platform
Veritas Technologies this week announced that its backup and recovery software now includes support for Kubernetes clusters. Lisa Erikson, senior director of product management for Veritas, says version 9.1 of NetBackup today ...
Red Hat Survey Finds Widespread Container Security Issues
A survey of 500 DevOps, engineering and security professionals published today by Red Hat finds 94% of respondents have experienced a security incident involving their Kubernetes and container environments during the last ...
Red Hat Makes VM Migration Kit Available for OpenShift
During an online Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat announced today that a kit for migrating existing virtual machines to a Red Hat OpenShift platform based on Kubernetes is now generally available ...
Weaveworks Embeds Observability Portal in GitOps Platform for Kubernetes
Weaveworks has added observability tools to its GitOps platform for Kubernetes environments with no additional configuration effort required. Company COO Steve George says the addition of an observability portal to the Weave ...
Morpheus Data Extends Reach into Kubernetes
Morpheus Data has updated its platform for managing hybrid cloud computing environments to add deeper support for Kubernetes platforms alongside traditional monolithic applications. As part of that effort, Morpheus is also updating ...
Palo Alto Networks Finds First Windows Container Malware
Palo Alto Networks revealed today it has discovered the first known malware targeting Windows containers. Dubbed Siloscape, the malware employs sophisticated code obfuscation techniques to create a backdoor into a Kubernetes cluster ...

