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.
CNCF Adopts Longhorn Storage Project from Rancher Labs
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week that a Longhorn block-based storage software for Kubernetes clusters developed by Rancher Labs has become an open source CNCF sandbox project. Rancher Labs ...
Red Hat Extends Container Alliance With NVIDIA to 5G Edge
At the Mobile World Congress event this week, Red Hat and NVIDIA extended their alliance to include deployment of containerized artificial intelligence (AI) applications and services at the emerging 5G network edge ...
Red Hat Updates OpenShift Platform to Simplify Operations
Red Hat today unveiled an update to the open source Red Hat OpenShift platform based on Kubernetes that adds integration with serverless computing frameworks and support for Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, which ...
SAP Embraces Serverless Computing Frameworks
SAP has begun to make available extensions to its cloud platform that enable customers to leverage a framework running on top of Kubernetes to invoke serverless computing frameworks. The framework is based ...
Turbonomic Automates Container Resizing
Turbonomic has expanded the capabilities of its application resource management (ARM) platform to enable IT teams to optimize and scale infrastructure resources for Kubernetes clusters automatically in real-time by resizing the containers ...
Eclipse Foundation Brings Java IDE to Kubernetes
The Eclipse Foundation this week made good on a promise to couple Java and Kubernetes more tightly, with the release of the Eclipse Che 7 integrated development environment (IDE). Announced at the ...
Camunda Leverages Kubernetes to Push BPM to the Cloud
Camunda today unfurled a beta edition of a business process management (BPM) platform accessed via the cloud that the company developed using microservices running atop Kubernetes clusters, which enables organizations to create ...
Sumo Logic Adds Support for Kubernetes
Sumo Logic has unveiled the first instance of its monitoring tools delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to support Kubernetes. Announced at the company’s Illuminate 2019 conference, the Continuous Intelligence Solution for Kubernetes ...
OCI Launches Artifacts Project to Reduce Registries Required
The Technical Oversight Board (TOB) for the Open Container Initiative (OCI) today announced it has approved a new Artifacts project that will extend the reach of a single repository to encompass multiple ...
Sysdig Makes Container Security Case for Falco
Sysdig is doubling down on its efforts to make its open source Falco project the de facto means for pulling security metrics for runtime security and intrusion detection. The company has already ...

