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.
Civo Launches Cloud Service Based on K3s
Civo, a provider of a cloud service for applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters, this week unveiled a service based on the open source K3s distribution of Kubernetes being advanced under the auspices ...
Loft Labs Launches Open Source K8s Compliance Project
Loft Labs today launched jsPolicy as an open source project to enable compliance in Kubernetes environments to be achieved using code written in JavaScript. Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs CEO, says jsPolicy differs ...
Red Hat Woos Developers with Free OpenShift Instances
Red Hat today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 conference made Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift offering generally available. The Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift makes the Kubernetes-based platform ...
Ambassador Labs Brings Order to Cloud-Native Toolchains
Ambassador Labs today at the KubeCon + CloudNative Con Europe 2021 conference unveiled a control plane that makes it simpler for development teams to centralize the management of the toolchain employed to ...
StormForge Makes ML for Kubernetes Clusters Accessible
At the online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 conference, StormForge today extended a platform that employs agent software and machine learning algorithms to remove the guesswork from deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters ...
DataStax Expands Cassandra Support for Kubernetes Distros
DataStax, at the online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 event, announced it will now support the deployment of its distribution of the open source Apache Cassandra database on any distribution of Kubernetes ...
New Relic to Donate Pixie Observability Platform to CNCF
New Relic announced it is in the process of contributing an observability platform that runs natively on Kubernetes to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Announced during an online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon ...
Red Hat, IBM Launch Konveyor to Aggregate Kubernetes Tools
At the online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 event today Red Hat and IBM Research announced they are teaming up to create a Konveyor to advance adoption of a collection of tools ...
Red Hat Urges GitOps Adoption in OpenShift Environments
Red Hat, Inc. today made available OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines that are based on the Argo continuous delivery (CD) and Tekton open source projects. Argo is being advanced under the auspices ...
IBM Promises Software-Defined Storage for Containers
IBM this week announced it will deliver, in the second half of this year, software-defined storage (SDS) embedded in containers that can be deployed anywhere. Eric Herzog, vice president for business development ...

