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.
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 ...
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 ...

