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.
IBM Bolsters Container Storage Platform
IBM today announced that IBM Storage Suite for Cloud Paks is now more tightly integrated with both the Red Hat OpenShift and CoreOS platforms. A container client and runtime Operator software is ...
Aqua Security Simplifies Kubernetes Security
Aqua Security today unveiled a Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) offering that provides IT teams with a set of policies and controls to automate configuration and compliance of Kubernetes clusters. In addition, ...
Cloud Foundry Foundation Embraces Kubernetes Fully
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), at the virtual Cloud Foundry European Summit, today unveiled version 1.0 of cf-for-k8s, an instance of the open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that runs natively on Kubernetes ...
Aqua Security Allies with GitHub on Container Security
Aqua Security this week announced that its open source Trivy vulnerability scanner is now available as an Aqua Security Trivy GitHub Action, which enables DevOps teams that employ GitHub to scan both ...
Red Hat Adds Cloud-Native Quarkus Runtime for Java Applications
Red Hat is making a version of its Quarkus runtime for deploying Java applications on Kubernetes that doesn’t require a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) available as part of its Red Hat Runtimes ...
Solo.io Picks Up $23M to Fuel Service Mesh Ambitions
Solo.io announced today it has picked up an additional $23 million in funding to further adoption of its application programming interface (API) gateway, Service Mesh Hub and Ingress controller for Kubernetes clusters, ...
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 ...

