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 Delivers on Kubernetes Promise for VMware vSphere
VMware announced today that an instance of the VMware vSphere platform in which Kubernetes has been embedded is now generally available. Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager for the Cloud ...
Diamanti Strengthens Container Platform
Diamanti today announced it is adding support for both volume encryption and self-encrypting drives along with support for asynchronous replication to its bare-metal platform for hosting containers. In addition, Diamanti’s D20 appliance ...
Survey Sees Kubernetes Enterprise Adoption Gains
A recent survey of 247 IT professionals working at organizations with 1,000 or more employees finds that well over half (59%) are running Kubernetes in a production environment, with one-third (33%) operating ...
LogDNA Updates Log Management Tool for Kubernetes
LogDNA today updated its log management tool for Kubernetes to include support for Webhooks that can be employed to provide tighter integration with external applications and tools such as the project management ...
Sysdig Embraces Prometheus
Sysdig announced today it has added Prometheus compatibility to the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform through which dashboards based on data collected by the open source platform can be generated and continuously updated ...
Platform9 Adds More Tiers to Kubernetes Service
Platform9 today launched a managed Kubernetes service, dubbed the Freedom plan, that provides free access to Kubernetes clusters of up to 20 nodes spanning a maximum of 800 virtual CPUs running on ...
Aqua Security: More Platforms Add Trivy Container Scanning Tool
Aqua Security today revealed that its open source Trivy container scanning software is now available by default in a growing number of container platforms. Currently available under a royalty-free Apache 2 license, ...
VMware Deepens Commitment to Kubernetes
VMware today announced it has advanced its Kubernetes strategy by making available its previously announced Tanzu platform to manage any Kubernetes distribution as well as making a Java application development environment based ...
IPFS Emerges as Tool to Distribute Container Images
Contributors to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) have come up with a more efficient way to distribute container images. IPFS is a distributed file system that makes use of a global namespace ...
Mirantis Acquires Kubernetes Assets from Kontena
Mirantis today announced it has acquired the assets of Kontena, a provider of a distribution of Kubernetes based on Finland. David Van Everen, senior vice president of marketing for Mirantis, says Mirantis ...

