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.
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 ...
Kubernetes Turns 6, Comes of Enterprise Age
With Kubernetes having officially celebrated its 6th birthday as an open source project, it’s apparent just how profound an impact the platform is about to have on enterprise IT in terms of ...
IBM Leverages Containers to Advance DevOps on Mainframes
IBM has extended its effort to make the mainframe just another DevOps platform to deploy code with the launch of Wazi for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, a browser-based tool that can now ...
Docker Hub Distributing Cryptomining Malware?
A pair of cybersecurity reports published this week suggests the level of cryptomining malware lurking in the Docker Hub repository is potentially greater than most IT teams realize. Aqua Security, a provider ...
CNCF Graduates Harbor Container Registry
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that the open source Harbor container registry has officially graduated, joining other projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus monitoring software. Originally developed by VMware, ...
Kubermatic Open Sources Automation Platform for Kubernetes
Kubermatic, formally known as Loodse, announced it is making available a platform for automating the management of Kubernetes clusters under an open source Apache license. In addition, Kubermatic released an update to ...
Docker Inc., Snyk Ally to Improve Containerized App Security
Docker Inc. is the latest provider of tools for building containerized applications to partner with Snyk following an alliance between the two companies revealed this week. Justin Graham, vice president of products ...

