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.
VMware: Java Apps Moving to Kubernetes
The rate at which containerized Java apps are being deployed on Kubernetes platforms continues to accelerate, according to a report published today by VMWare. Based on a survey of 1,024 IT professionals ...
Cloudian Adds Kubernetes Operator to Object Storage System
Cloudian today announced it has added support for an Operator to make it easier to provision its object-based storage platform in Kubernetes environments. Sanjay Jagad, senior director of products and solutions at ...
CyberArk Discloses Potential Security Flaw in Kubernetes Agent Software
CyberArk, a provider of access management tools, today issued an advisory describing multiple potential misconfigurations of kubelet, the agent software that registers a Kubernetes node with an application programming interface (API) server, ...
CFF Aims to Meld PaaS and Kubernetes Management
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) in collaboration with SUSE today announced an update to the Stratos user interface project that will provide a foundation for unifying the management experience across the Cloud ...
HPE Extends Data Fabric Across Multiple Kubernetes Clusters
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has extended the capabilities of a rechristened container platform to now include support for a data fabric spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters that can be physically located in data ...
Palo Alto Networks Discloses Kata Container Flaws
At the online Black Hat USA 2020 conference today, researchers from the Unit 42 arm of Palo Alto Networks disclosed how they had enabled malicious code to escape from a Kata Container ...
Kubermatic Launches Hub for Kubernetes Operators
Kubermatic, a provider of an open source platform for automating Kubernetes clusters, today unveiled an open source Service Management Hub dubbed KubeCarrier that automates the lifecycle management of services, applications and hardware ...
GitLab Offers CI/CD Platform as Hardened Container Image
GitLab is making available an instance of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform in the form of a hardened container image that can be downloaded via an Iron Bank repository set ...
Aqua Security Surfaces Threat to Container Hosts
Aqua Security this week reported a new type of cyberattack that exploits Docker application programming interfaces (APIs) to build and run a malicious container image on the host. Asaf Morag, lead data ...
Linux Foundation Partners With CNCF on Kubernetes Certs, Training
The Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today they are collaboratively developing a Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification expected to be available in November. At the same time, ...
