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.
Sysdig Report Surfaces Shifts in Container Adoption
An annual “Container Usage and Security Report” published today by Sysdig finds there has been a significant shift in terms of the types of container engines organizations are employing. Based on an ...
Grafana Labs Adds Free Prometheus Monitoring Tier
Grafana Labs today announced it has added a free tier to its Prometheus monitoring cloud service that enables IT organizations to more easily monitor a fleet of Kubernetes clusters. Tom Wilkie, vice ...
Red Kubes Makes Community Edition of Kubernetes Configuration Platform Open Source
Red Kubes announced today it is making the community edition of the Otomi Container Platform available as an open source project. The Otomi Container Platform automates the deployment of a curated Kubernetes ...
Isovalent Looks to Transform Container Networking With eBPF
The way network packets are processed is about to dramatically change for the better, as more Linux distributions integrate extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) capabilities in 2021. Rather than processing packets in ...
Red Hat Acquires StackRox to Strengthen Container Security
Red Hat this week announced it is acquiring StackRox, which provides a suite of tools for securing Kubernetes clusters. Ashesh Badani, senior vice president for cloud platforms, says Red Hat will make ...
F5 Networks to Acquire Volterra to Push Apps to the Edge
F5 Networks announced it intends to acquire Volterra, which provides a platform for managing hybrid cloud computing environments, for $500 million. During an analyst call, F5 Networks CEO François Locoh-Donou highlighted Volterra’s ...
Platform9 and MayaData Team Up on Kubernetes Storage
Platform9, a managed Kubernetes services provider, has teamed up with MayaData to make it easier to access persistent data on Kubernetes clusters. Platform9 has also added a Platform9 Managed Bare Metal service ...
CNFs to Drive Container App Deployment on 5G Networks in 2021
The widespread availability of next-generation 5G wireless networking services will drive a wider range of containerized applications to edge computing platforms in 2021. Most of those 5G networking services will be accessed ...
New Year, More Kubernetes Vulnerabilities
Now that Kubernetes clusters are being deployed more widely in production environments, the level of attention being paid by cybersecurity researchers to a new platform in the enterprise will surely increase in ...
Best of 2020: OpenStack’s Complicated Kubernetes Relationship
As we close out 2020, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our series of the Best of 2020 ...

