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.
ScyllaDB Adds Kubernetes Operator to NoSQL Database
ScyllaDB, a provider of an open source database based on a columnar architecture, has made available in beta an Operator to makes it easier to deploy the NoSQL platform on a Kubernetes ...
Infinidat Adds CSI Support to Storage Array
Infinidat, a provider of on-premises storage arrays, announced this week its implementation of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes clusters is now generally available. Erik Kaulberg, vice president at Infinidat, says ...
Open Source Tern Locks Dockerfile to Container Image
The team behind the open source Tern tools for scanning container images has released an update that adds the ability to lock the base image of a Dockerfile to the packages installed ...
Couchbase Updates Operator for Database Running on Kubernetes Clusters
Couchbase today announced it has enhanced the Operator software it makes available for deploying its namesake document database on Kubernetes clusters to now include the ability to automate backup and recovery, replication ...
Red Hat Adds Tools for Building Container Apps to RHEL 8.2
Red Hat this week announced the general availability of the latest update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that, among other things, embeds tools for building containerized applications. Scott McCarty, technical product ...
Aqua Security Extends Container Security Platform
Aqua Security today launched a tool today that dynamically scans container environments to discover more sophisticated forms of malware that often elude static analysis tools. Rani Osnat, vice president of strategy for ...
CFF Launches Paketo Buildpacks for Containers
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), in partnership with VMware, today launched Paketo Buildpacks, which are based on a set of specifications and tools for compiling code and configuring containers by automatically detecting ...
VMware Delivers More Tanzu Services for Kubernetes
VMware has moved its effort to embrace Kubernetes forward by making elements of its Tanzu portfolio of services for building, deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes environments more broadly available. Tanzu Kubernetes ...
CFF Certifies Kubernetes as Diego Alternative
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) announced today that it has begun certifying distributions of its namesake platform for building and deploying applications that make use of Kubernetes as an alternative to the ...
CNCF Adopts Argo Continuous Delivery Platform
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has agreed to accept Argo, a content delivery (CD) platform for Kubernetes environments put forward by Intuit, as an incubation project. Intuit became the steward for ...
