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.
CloudBolt Software Simplifies Kubernetes Deployments
CloudBolt Software today announced it has updated its frameworks for automating the management of IT to make it possible to deploy applications on a multi-node Kubernetes cluster in a matter of minutes ...
Dynatrace Deepens AI Ties to Kubernetes
Dynatrace today at its Perform 2020 conference announced it has extended the reach of the Davis artificial intelligence (AI) engine embedded within its application performance management (APM) platform to ingest a wider ...
Cisco Unveils Kubernetes Platform
Cisco Systems today launched a Cisco Hyperflex Application Platform that marks the first time the company has made available a hyperconverged platform available that comes pre-installed with a distribution of Kubernetes. Eugene ...
Astro Project Ties Kubernetes to Datadog
Fairwinds, a provider of managed IT services for Kubernetes environments, has launched an open source project dubbed Astro that provides an easier application programming interface (API) for monitoring Kubernetes clusters using monitoring ...
TriggerMesh Aims to Orchestrate Serverless Computing on Kubernetes
TriggerMesh has raised $3 million in additional funding to advance the integration of Kubernetes clusters with serverless computing frameworks. In addition, the company announced it has made available open source integrations between ...
Anchore Raises $20M to Expand Kubernetes Security Reach
Anchore this week announced it has received an additional $20 million in funding as the battle for container security supremacy intensifies in 2020. Startups such as Anchore are finding themselves competing with ...
Octarine Adds 2 Open Source Projects to Secure Kubernetes
Octarine announced today it has launched two open source projects intended to enhance Kubernetes security. The first project is kube-scan, a workload and assessment tool that scans Kubernetes configurations and settings to ...
Instana Adds CRI-O Support to APM Platform
Instana this week became one of the first providers of an application performance management (APM) service to add support for the Container Runtime Interface based on the Open Container Initiative specification, otherwise ...
CNCF Funds Cybersecurity Bug Bounty Initiative for Kubernetes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced it is funding a bounty program for discovering security bugs in any distribution of Kubernetes. Maya Kaczorowski, product manager for container security at Google, ...
CloudBees Preps SaaS Instance of Jenkins X
CloudBees, at its DevOps World | Jenkins World conference this week, unfurled a free preview of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) instance of Jenkins X, an open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform designed ...

