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.
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, ...
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 ...

