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.
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 ...
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 ...

