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.
Kubermatic Updates Control Plane for Kubernetes
Kubermatic announced today it updated its open source platform to give IT administrators more control over how Kubernetes clusters are provisioned. Version 2.16 of Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) makes available a set ...
Shipa Extends ALM Platform for Kubernetes
Shipa this week extended the reach of its namesake application lifecycle management (ALM) platform for Kubernetes environments. The platform now integrates with a wider range of container cloud services and container registries ...
Platform9 Simplifies Kubernetes Cluster Management
Platform9 has updated its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing Kubernetes clusters to support multiple versions of Kubernetes clusters simultaneously. As IT organizations deploy Kubernetes clusters in greater numbers, over time, many of ...
VMware Makes Persistent Data Available Via Kubernetes API
VMware announced today general availability of a vSAN Data Persistence Platform, through which Kubernetes clusters will be able to access data stored in VMware platforms. Developed in collaboration with Cloudian and MinIO, ...
Rapid7 Acquires Alcide in Bid to Unify Security
Rapid7 this week announced it has acquired Alcide, a provider of a platform for securing Kubernetes, for $50 million as part of an effort to unify cybersecurity across multiple platforms. Brian Johnson, ...
Survey Sees Spike in Container Adoption on Kubernetes Platforms
A survey of 156 attendees at the recent virtual KubeCon North America 2020 conference suggests the rate at which containers are deployed on Kubernetes clusters is accelerating. The survey, conducted last November ...
Chaos Engineering Testing Correlates with Kubernetes Adoption
A survey of 400 IT professionals finds a high correlation between organizations that have adopted Kubernetes and those that have implemented chaos engineering techniques to ensure availability and decrease recovery times in ...
Veritas Leverages Kubernetes to Scale-Out Data Protection
Veritas Technologies is embracing scale-out computing with the release of its NetBackup 9 data protection platform, launched this week. The decision to rebuild its backup and recovery platform on Kubernetes paved the way for ...
Linkerd Service Mesh to Get a Steering Committee
The organizations that maintain the Linkerd service mesh announced today they will create a steering committee to direct how the open source service mesh evolves. Linkerd, originally developed by Buoyant, Inc., has ...
SUSE Hails Update to Longhorn Storage Project
SUSE today is touting an update to the Longhorn file system software for Kubernetes environments that allows users to leverage a Kubernetes-native storage solution in low-powered hardware at the edge. Longhorn was originally developed by ...

