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.
Jetstack Automates Kubernetes Certificate Management
Jetstack, a unit of Venafi, launched a platform dubbed Jetstack Secure through which IT teams can automate the management of certificates in Kubernetes environments. Matt Bates, Jetstack CTO, says that as more ...
CTO.ai Aims to Simplify App Dev on Kubernetes
CTO.ai today is launching a namesake platform that simplifies building and deploying applications in Kubernetes environments. Kyle Campbell, CEO of CTO.ai says the primary purpose of Kubernetes is to provide an underlying ...
Tigera Cloudifies Calico to Secure, Monitor Kubernetes
Tigera today launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of a platform for monitoring and securing Kubernetes environments based on its open source Project Calico network virtualization software. Previously, the company made available an ...
Docker Hub Container Image Pulls Grew in 2020
Despite the global economic downturn that began with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic roughly a year ago, Docker Inc. is reporting that the number of Docker container pulls made from the ...
Anchore Updates Container Security Platform
Anchore has updated its container security platform as part of an effort to enable organizations to better secure software supply chains that include Kubernetes clusters. Neil Levine, vice president of products for ...
Trend Micro Details Attack Against Containers
Trend Micro revealed this week it has encountered a malicious payload within a Docker container; the payload was specifically crafted to escape from a privileged container in a way that would enable ...
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, ...

