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.
CyberArk Unveils Open Source Pen Testing Tool for Kubernetes
CyberArk today launched an open source penetration testing framework, dubbed Kubesploit, for testing Kubernetes environments. Eviatar Gerzi, a cybersecurity researcher at CyberArk Labs, says that as more instances of Kubernetes clusters are ...
MinIO Adds Kubernetes Operator for Object Storage Platform
MinIO, a provider of an object-based storage platform, announced today it has added an open source Operator tool that makes it easier for IT administrators to deploy its platform on Kubernetes clusters ...
VMware Adds Container Scanning Tool to Security Platform
VMware today announced it has added a VMware Carbon Black Cloud Container offering that makes it possible to scan containers and Kubernetes configurations within the context of a DevSecOps workflow. Shemer Schwarz, ...
IBM Delivers on Cloud Promise for Financial Services
IBM today announced that an IBM Cloud for Financial Services, built on the Red Hat OpenShift platform in collaboration with Bank of America, is now generally available. Hillery Hunter, vice president and ...
Esri Will Make ArcGIS Available on Kubernetes
Esri announced today that in the second quarter of this year it will make available an instance of its geospatial information system (GIS) that can be deployed on Kubernetes clusters. Philip Heede, ...
Red Hat Bets on Kogito for BPM on Kubernetes
Red Hat has updated its business process management (BPM) platform to take advantage of Kogito, an open source business automation tool that runs natively on Kubernetes. Phil Simpson, a senior principal product ...
Kasten by Veeam Adds Tool to Optimize Kubernetes Storage
Kasten by Veeam announced today it has launched an open source project around a tool to evaluate Kubernetes cluster storage configurations and performance. Michael Cade, senior technologist for Kasten by Veeam, says ...
Nutanix Karbon Now Integrates With Microsoft Arc
The Karbon distribution of Kubernetes made available by Nutanix has now been integrated with Microsoft Arc management framework. The number of Kubernetes distributions that support Microsoft Arc is expected to steadily increase ...
Sophos Adds Ability to Scan Container Images
Sophos this week announced it is extending its Cloud Optix service for cloud security posture management (CSPM) to include support for container image scanning. Richard Beckett, senior product marketing manager for public ...
Red Hat, AWS Extend OpenShift Alliance
Red Hat this week reveals it has extended its alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include a managed Red Hat OpenShift service that the two companies will jointly provide. Based on ...

