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.
CloudHealth by VMware Report: Sharp Spike in Container Adoption
A report published today by CloudHealth by VMware, a provider of observability tools accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, finds container adoption increased 37% from January to September 2020. The report also says overall ...
KubeSphere Now Available as AWS Quick Start
The development team behind KubeSphere announced it is available as an AWS QuickStart. KubeSphere is an open source platform for managing Kubernetes environments, and the collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Quick Start will ...
Fugue Cloud Security Adds Support for Container Runtimes
Fugue today announced it has extended its eponymous platform for securing cloud environments to include container runtime environments. Josh Stella, Fugue’s CEO, says it’s more cost effective for organizations to employ a ...
Hitachi Vantara Unveils Kubernetes Management Platform
Hitachi Vantara today launched a platform for managing Kubernetes environments that span multiple clouds and on-premises IT environments. Colin Gallagher, vice president for infrastructure solutions product marketing at Hitachi Vantara, says the ...
VMware Tanzu Advanced Expands Scope of Kubernetes Platform
VMware’s advanced edition of its Tanzu distribution of Kubernetes promises to simplify deployment and management of cloud-native environments. In addition, VMware has launched the Project Iris initiative, through which the company says it will ...
Red Hat Eases Migration of Java Applications to Kubernetes
Red Hat has updated the Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications to ease Java application migrations. The update includes rulesets that analyze and recommend paths to modernize and migrate Java applications to ...
Accurics Applies Policy as Code to Secure Kubernetes Clusters
Accurics is employing policy as code to address a Kubernetes vulnerability, using its Terrascan tool for securing infrastructure as code. Terrascan is Accurics’ open source, static code analysis tool that allows developers to ...
Nutanix Adds Support for Google Anthos Distribution of Kubernetes
Nutanix has added support for Google Anthos, a managed instance of a Kubernetes environment, to its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform running the company’s AHV hypervisor. Greg Muscarella, vice president of product for ...
IBM Allies with GitLab to Advance AI Development on Red Hat OpenShift Platform
GitLab and IBM today announced that GitLab’s continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform will become an element of IBM’s Cloud Pak offerings. IBM specifically created Cloud Paks to enable IT teams to build ...
Slim.ai Applies AI to Optimize Containers Before Being Deployed
Fresh off raising $6.6 million in seed funding, Slim.ai this week launched a namesake DevOps platform that makes use of machine learning algorithms to resize and optimize containers before they are deployed ...

