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.
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, ...
Thycotic Extends Secrets Management Reach to Kubernetes
Thycotic, a provider of privileged access management (PAM) platform, today announced its support for Kubernetes. The company currently provides two types of PAM platforms for application developers. The first is DevOps Secrets ...
Google Proposes Changes to Istio Steering Committee
Google is making a case for changing the rules under which the open source Istio service mesh project for Kubernetes environments is managed with a proposal to create a new Steering Committee ...
Red Hat Integrates KubeVirt With Kubernetes Management Platform From SAP
Red Hat, as part of a broader alliance between IBM and SAP, is working to integrate its implementation of KubeVirt, an open source project that enables virtual machines to be encapsulated in ...
IBM Shows Instances of COBOL Running Natively on Kubernetes
IBM has launched a research and development project through which applications developed in COBOL are able to run natively on Kubernetes clusters. JJ Ashgar, developer advocate for IBM, says at the moment ...

