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.
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 ...
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 ...
