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.
Tigera Taps into Palo Alto Networks to Secure Kubernetes
Tigera announced this week it is bridging the divide between Kubernetes and traditional firewalls by integrating its zero-trust framework for cloud-native applications with tools and frameworks employed to manage traditional firewalls. Andrew ...
CNCF Completes Kubernetes Cybersecurity Audit
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week announced the results of its recent audit performed as part of its ongoing commitment to continuously improve Kubernetes security. CNCF CTO Chris Aniszczyk says ...
Sysdig Injects More AI into Container Security
At the Black Hat USA conference, Sysdig today announced it has extended the capabilities of Sysdig Secure to include runtime profiling and anomaly detection enabled by machine learning algorithms with Kubernetes environments ...
Survey Identifies Myriad Kubernetes Adoption Drivers
One of the assumptions made about key drivers Kubernetes adoption is that organizations are trying to accelerate the rate at which software is built by embracing microservices based on containers. However, a ...
IBM Unveils First Container Fruits of Red Hat Investment
IBM today announced its first formal effort to derive value from its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat with the launch of IBM Cloud Paks, a set of IBM-certified and containerized software ...
Aqua Security Extends Pivotal Alliance
Aqua Security has extended its container security alliance with Pivotal Software to include containerized applications running on the distribution of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that Pivotal makes available. The two companies ...
Alcide Analysis Suggests Long Kubernetes Road Ahead
Old habits that are especially bad don’t appear to be going away as organizations migrate to more modern IT platforms based on Kubernetes. An analysis of scans conducted by Alcide, a provider ...
Talend Extends Docker Container Support
Talend, as part of a summer release of Talend Data Fabric, is now making it possible to containerize data services and routes directly from within the Talend Studio toolset. Nick Piette, director ...
NetApp Adds Kubernetes Service to HCI Platform
NetApp has launched a service that automates the deployment of Kubernetes within a NetApp hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform. NetApp Kubernetes Service on NetApp HCI automates the deployment of Kubernetes and includes an ...
Graphical Tool for Deploying Kubernetes Gets Certified
One of the first graphical tools to ever be created to simplify deploying Kubernetes has been certified as a Kubernetes installer by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Dubbed Breeze, the open ...
