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.
Red Hat Extends OpenShift Operator to Integration Platform
Red Hat has now made it possible to install, upgrade and manage Red Hat Integration components using an operator it developed for the Red Hat OpenShift platform in addition to an existing ...
Red Hat Simplifies Kubernetes Cluster Management
Red Hat has made generally available an update to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes that extends the reach of the Kubernetes management framework to include support for Azure Red Hat ...
DigiCert Uses Containers to Extend Certificate Management Reach
DigiCert today launched DigiCert Automation Manager that employs containers to make a cloud platform for managing certificates more accessible from within an on-premises IT environment. Brian Trzupek, senior vice president of product ...
Mirantis Commits to Providing Ongoing Support for Dockershim
Mirantis announced today it will update the Mirantis Container Runtime to include built-in support for the dockershim mechanism that will enable legacy Docker containers to run, even after version 1.23 of Kubernetes ...
Loft Labs Makes K8s Virtualization Software Open Source
Loft Labs today announced that its virtualization software for Kubernetes clusters is now available as an open source project. Available on GitHub, the vcluster software created by Loft Labs makes it possible ...
Docker Inc. Brings Desktop Dev Tools to M1-Based Macs
Docker Inc. today made generally available an edition of the Docker Desktop for Mac application development tool on macOS systems based on an M1 system-on-a-chip (SoC) that was developed, in part, using ...
Reining in Kubernetes Costs in the Cloud
IT organizations have been overprovisioning infrastructure since the dawn of IT, but a survey published today by StormForge, a provider of performance testing tools, suggests the addition of Kubernetes clusters to IT ...
CNCF Launches Integrated API Gateway and Ingress Controller Project
The technical oversight committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that an emissary-ingress gateway for application programming interfaces (APIs) and an ingress controller designed to run natively on Kubernetes, ...
SUSE Funds Cloud-Native Skills Scholarships
SUSE has announced it is sponsoring 300 online education scholarships to provide aspiring practitioners with free access to a cloud-native education program, dubbed the Cloud Native Application Architecture Nanodegree program, delivered by ...
Kubernetes 1.21 Addresses Raft of Enterprise Issues
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for Kubernetes today is releasing a 1.21 update that addresses a wide range of operational and security issues that should ultimately make the platform easier to manage ...
