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.
Report: Kubernetes Use on the Rise
A recent report based on analysis of 1.5 billion containers running in IT environments monitored by Datadog finds about 45% of organizations supported by the provider of IT monitoring services are now ...
Helm Package Manager for Kubernetes Moves Forward
The official release of version 3.0 of the Helm package manager for Kubernetes is designed to make it easier for IT organizations to discover and securely deploy software on Kubernetes clusters more ...
Red Hat Updates IDE for Kubernetes Environments
Red Hat, this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 conference, announced an update to an integrated development environment (IDE) that runs natively on Kubernetes to make it more accessible to developers that ...
HPE Unveils Container Platform
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it will combine two recent acquisitions to create an HPE Container Platform that will be made available in on-premises environments and public clouds early next year. Launched ...
Solo.io Delivers Enterprise API Gateway for Kubernetes
Solo.io made available a 1.0 release of the enterprise edition of an ingress controller and application programming interface (API) gateway specifically designed for Kubernetes environments. Based on open source API Gateway software ...
Redis Labs Leverages Kubernetes to Automate Database Recovery
Redis Labs today announced it has enhanced the Operator software for deploying its database on Kubernetes clusters to include an automatic cluster recovery that enables customers to manage a stateful service as ...
Dell Launches Kubernetes-Based Managed Service
Dell Technologies today launched Dell EMC PowerOne, a managed service for on-premises IT environments that leverages a controller running Kubernetes and an instance of the Ansible IT automation framework to remotely configure ...
Red Hat Advances Java on Kubernetes Project
Red Hat today achieved a 1.0 milestone in its efforts to make an instance of Java available for Kubernetes via the open source Quarkus project. Mark Little, vice president of engineering for ...
Volterra Unfurls Global Hybrid Cloud Service Based on Kubernetes
Volterra has launched a platform that enables organizations to build and deploy applications across hybrid clouds based on a distribution of Kubernetes. Emerging from stealth with more than $50 million in funding, ...
BMC Preps Control-M Workflow Engine for Container Age
BMC Software is gearing up to formally release an instance of its Control-M application workflow orchestration platform in the form of a Docker container. Gur Steif, president for digital business automation product ...

