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.
Solo.io Adds Managed Istio Service Mesh to Portfolio
Solo.io, at its online Solocon 2021 conference, announced today a bevy of updates to its core platforms including the launch of a managed Gloo Cloud service for deploying and updating the open ...
Peritus AI Assistant Highlights Chronic Cloud-Native Skills Shortage
Peritus.ai announced today it has extended a recommendation engine that identifies online support resources for technology to include support for cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes. Robin Purohit, Peritus.ai CEO, says Peritus Assistant ...
Jetty Project Embraces Jakarta EE 9 Specification
The Eclipse Foundation announced today that the open source Eclipse Jetty project, which provides access to web server and servlet containers, is now compatible with Jakarta EE 9 Servlet specifications. With version ...
CircleCI Delivers on Kubernetes Promise
CircleCI today announced that the latest server edition of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, that is deployed on Kubernetes, is now generally available. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, says this edition ...
Diamanti Adds Support for Google Cloud Platform
Diamanti this week announced that it adds support for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to its Spektra platform for managing data on Kubernetes environments that can be extended across a hybrid cloud ...
NetApp Automates Apache Spark Management on Kubernetes
NetApp today announced Spot Wave by NetApp, an offering that automates the deployment of the open source Apache Spark in-memory computing framework on Kubernetes clusters. Spot Wave enables Apache Spark deployment on ...
Docker Inc. Raises $23M to Advance Strategy
Docker Inc. revealed today it picked up an additional $23 million in funding that will be employed mainly to advance development of a suite of tools aimed at enhancing the productivity of ...
Glasnostic Expands Observability to Kubernetes
Glasnostic, a provider of an observability platform for application traffic, is making available an instance of its platform that supports Kubernetes via a private beta program. Tobias Kunze, Glasnostic CEO, says Glasnostic’s ...
NetApp Unfurls Managed Service for Kubernetes
NetApp has made generally available a NetApp Astra managed service, through which it will protect, recover and move application workloads deployed on Kubernetes without requiring a download, installation, management or upgrade of ...
CNCF Advances Flux CD Platform for Kubernetes Environments
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week made the open source Flux continuous delivery platform for Kubernetes environments an incubation-level project. Originally developed by Weaveworks, ...

