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.
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 ...
Pure Storage Expands Portworx’s K8s Storage Reach
At its online Pure//Accelerate Digital event, Pure Storage today announced it has extended Portworx Enterprise to support clusters running the VMware Tanzu distributions of Kubernetes in addition to adding support for dynamic ...
Aqua Security Report Reveals Docker API Security Mess
Aqua Security published a report today that shows widespread cloud misconfiguration issues also extend to Docker containers. The report finds more than 40% of users had at least one misconfigured Docker application ...
VMware Launches App Connectivity Platform Based on Istio
VMware today launched a VMware Modern Apps Connectivity suite that combines its Tanzu Service Mesh and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer ALB software into a single offering. The Tanzu Service Mesh is ...
Yugabyte Releases Database on Kubernetes Clusters
Yugabyte this week announced it has made generally available its open source SQL database based on a document database architecture on Kubernetes clusters. Karthik Ranganathan, Yugabyte CTO, says version 2.7 of YugabyteDB ...

