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.
Robin.io Adds Support for IBM Kubernetes Service
Robin.io, a provider of data management and storage software, designed to be deployed as containers, deepened its ties with IBM this week by announcing support for IBM Kubernetes Service (IKS). That move ...
Linkerd Update Simplifies Service Mesh Extensions
The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform. Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides ...
Tigera Previews Calico for Windows on Microsoft AKS
Tigera is making available a preview of open source Calico virtual networking and security software for running Windows in the Microsoft Azure Kubernetes (AKS) service. Amit Gupta, vice president of business development ...
D2iQ Eases Kubernetes ML Workload Deployment
D2iQ has made generally available a suite of open source software components that make it simpler to deploy machine learning workloads on Kubernetes clusters. Tobi Knaup, D2iQ CEO, says D2iQ Kaptain is ...
Microsoft’s Azure Arc Now Includes Machine Learning Services
Microsoft, at its online Ignite 2021 conference this week, extended the reach of its Azure Arc framework for managing Kubernetes environments to include artificial intelligence (AI) workloads deployed on edge computing platforms ...
Mavenir Taps Platform9 to Manage CNFs
Platform9 and Mavenir revealed today that Platform9’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing Kubernetes environments is being extended to manage container network functions (CNFs) deployed on Mavenir’s network infrastructure. The goal is to ...
Red Hat Partners With Mavenir on CNF Development
Red Hat has partnered with Mavenir to enable developers to employ the Red Hat OpenShift platform, based on Kubernetes, to build container network functions (CNFs) for open radio access networks (RAN). Ian ...
IBM Launches Cloud Satellite for Edge Computing
IBM today made generally available a managed Cloud Satellite edge computing service, based on Red Hat OpenShift, that now includes more than 65 partners, including Cisco, Dell Technologies, Intel and Lumen Technologies ...
Spectro Cloud Adds Support for Existing Kubernetes Clusters
Spectro Cloud today announced it is adding support for already installed distributions of Kubernetes to its management platform. Previously, the Spectro Cloud Kubernetes platform required IT organizations to install a distribution of ...
Fairwinds Updates Kubernetes Cluster Monitoring Tool
Fairwinds this week made available an update to its Kubernetes cluster monitoring tool that is now integrated with the data collector employed by open source Prometheus monitoring software. In addition, Fairwinds Insights ...

