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 Dives Deeper into AWS Container Security
Sysdig announced today it has extended its alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide automated inline image scanning for AWS Fargate containers via the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). Sysdig claims ...
VMware Extends Tanzu Reach
VMware, at its online VMworld 2020 conference, today announced it is making the Tanzu platform based on Kubernetes available on VMware Cloud and committed to making available previews of instances of Tanzu ...
Misconfigurations Tops List of Security Issues Hampering Kubernetes
A survey of 400 IT professionals published today by StackRox, a provider of a suite of tools for securing Kubernetes environments, finds that while adoption of Kubernetes is high, many organizations are ...
Kubermatic Joins 5G Consortium to Advance Kubernetes Adoption
Kubermatic, a provider of open source management platforms for Kubernetes clusters, has become a member of the 5G Open Innovation Lab, a global consortium of developers, startups, enterprises, academia and government institutions ...
Grafana Labs Offers On-Premises Edition of Prometheus
Grafana Labs has unveiled a Grafana Metrics Enterprise edition of its implementation of the open source Prometheus monitoring platform that can be deployed on-premises. Previously, Grafana Labs made a Prometheus platform available ...
Aqua Security Surfaces Attacks on Container Platforms
Aqua Security has discovered a wave of cybersecurity attacks that abuse automated build processes to hijack resources from software development environments such as Docker Hub, GitHub, Travis CI and Circle CI to ...
Solo.io Proposes OCI Format Extension for WASM
Solo.io has launched an initiative to define a format to extend the Open Container Initiative (OCI) image specification to standardize how an image bundles and stores metadata when developers write code using ...
Open Source Prevails in Monitoring, CNCF Finds
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today published the results of a survey of end users that finds only one commercial monitoring platform has thus far gained traction among organizations that have ...
StackRox Raises $26.5M for Kubernetes Security
StackRox today announced it has picked up an additional $26.5 million in funding that will be used for product development and to expand operations globally. Company CEO Kamal Shah says the provider ...
Red Hat Unfurls OpenShift Marketplace Managed by IBM
Red Hat, in collaboration with parent company IBM, announced this week the opening of Red Hat Marketplace, an online store through which it will make available software developed by both organizations as ...

