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.
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 ...
Shipa Shifts App Management Platform for K8s to Cloud
Shipa Corp. today announces the general availability of a cloud edition of its application management platform for Kubernetes environments. Bruno Andrade, Shipa CEO, says Shipa Cloud provides IT teams with an application ...
Microsoft Application Services Rides Azure Arc to Reach Kubernetes Clusters
Microsoft this week during its online Microsoft Build 2021 conference announced a preview of Azure application services, which leverages the Azure Arc management platform to extend the reach of a framework for ...
AWS Delivers on Amazon ECS Everywhere Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made generally available an instance of the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that can run in on-premises IT environments. Scott Sanchez, head of product marketing for ...
Docker, Inc. Rises to Meet Productivity and Security Challenges
During the online DockerCon Live 2021 event today, Docker, Inc. unveiled Docker Development Environments, a tool that makes it possible for developers to automatically create a virtual instance of their development environment ...
New Relic Integrates Pixie for Kubernetes Observability
During the online FutureStack 2021 conference today, New Relic announced it is integrating its open source Pixie observability platform for Kubernetes with the New Relic One platform. The company gained Pixie with ...
Upbound Advances Crossplane Control Plane for Hybrid IT Environments
Upbound has made generally available an Upbound Cloud service through which IT teams can manage clusters running a curated distribution of Crossplane, an open source control plane being advanced under the auspices ...
AWS Delivers Managed DevOps Environment for Container Apps
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made a managed AWS App Runner service for building container applications generally available. Scott Sanchez, head of product marketing for containers and serverless for AWS, says, ...
Confluent Makes Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes Easier
Confluent has extended its reach by making it possible to deploy a curated instance of the open source Kafka distributed event streaming software on top of a Kubernetes environment running in an ...
Pain Points Persist as Reliance on Kubernetes Rises
A survey of more than 1,097 IT professionals published this week finds 42% are running at least half of their business-critical applications on the Kubernetes platform, with roughly a quarter of respondents ...

