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.
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 ...
Survey Shows Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry Synergies
A survey of 176 IT professionals published this week by the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) finds over two-thirds of respondents (69%) are now running Kubernetes and the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment ...
IBM Throws Weight Behind Crossplane Project
An open source project that makes it easier to deploy and manage applications at scale on multiple Kubernetes clusters called Crossplane has reached a 1.0 milestone at the same time IBM is ...
Istio Service Mesh Update Arrives
The committee that oversees the development of the Istio has released the latest update of the open source service mesh, which simplifies the upgrade process and adds a slew of experimental features ...
Containers Creating Major DevSecOps Challenge
Cyberattacks against containers have moved from being a potential cause for concern to an issue that will have a much greater material impact on the rate at which cloud-native applications are being ...
CNCF Survey Finds Increased Dependency on Containers, Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week published the results of a global survey of 1,324 IT professionals that finds 92% of respondents are now running containers in production environments, with ...
Portworx by Pure Storage Extends Kubernetes Backup Reach
Portworx by Pure Storage today during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 virtual conference announced it has added support for the Container Storage Interface (CSI) to the latest version of its backup ...
