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.
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 ...
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 ...
