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.
SUSE Adds Arm Support to HCI Platform for Running Monolithic Apps on Kubernetes
SUSE has generally made available an update to its platform for running monolithic applications designed for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environments on top of Kubernetes clusters that now supports both 64-bit Arm and ...
Scality Extends Object Storage Reach to Kubernetes Clusters
Scality has extended the reach of its object storage platform to add support for the Container Object Storage Interface (COSI) and the Container Storage Interface (CSI). COSI is a Kubernetes standard that ...
Andela Reveals First IT Graduates From CNCF Training Initiative
Andela today revealed that the first cohort of 5,600 IT professionals in Africa that it trained using coursework developed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation Education to manage ...
Edera Launches Secure Runtime Environment for Container Applications
Edera today made available a hardened runtime environment based on containers that reduces the ability of cybercriminals to compromise cloud-native applications ...
Docker Extends Reach to Streamline Building of AI Agents
Docker. Inc. today extended its Docker Compose tool for creating container applications to include an ability to now also define architectures for artificial intelligence (AI) agents using YAML files ...
OpenTofu Project Adds OCI Registry to Share and Reuse Components
The OpenTofu project has released an update that adds support for a registry based on the Open Container Initiative specifications to make it simpler to share and reuse modules ...
Mirantis Adds AI Reference Architecture Based on k0rdent Control Plane
Mirantis this week made available a reference architecture for building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) workloads using a control plane designed to be deployed on Kubernetes clusters. Company CTO Shaun O’Meara said ...
The Case for Hardened Container Images with Ryan Carlson
Chainguard president Ryan Carlson explains how $350 Million in additional funding will be applied to better secure modern cloud-native application development environments using hardened container images. Despite all the talk about shifting ...
Chainguard Adds Support for Multi-Layer Hardened Container Images
Chainguard has added support for multi-layer images to its repository for accessing hardened container images that are free of vulnerabilities. Jason Hall, principal engineer for Chainguard, said that while it has been ...
Mirantis Extends Appeal of Control Plane to Traditional IT Administrators
Mirantis today extended the capabilities of an enterprise edition of an open source control plane to add workflow capabilities that are designed to be familiar to VMware administrators. Since earlier this year, ...
