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.
Survey Finds Container Adoption More Pervasive
As containerized applications become more widely employed in production environments, a new survey suggests the level of investment being made in container technologies by IT organizations is increasing exponentially. The survey of ...
Information Builders Embraces Containers for Analytics
Information Builders today announced it is making its analytics software available via Docker containers that can be employed to facilitate the movement of analytics between platforms or create “sandboxes” on public clouds ...
CircleCI Extends Kubernetes Reach of CI/CD Platform
CircleCI has extended the reach of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform into the realm of Kubernetes via technology partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat and Kublr. Also, ...
GitLab Embraces Kubernetes
GitLab this week announced it will be making its repository for managing DevOps processes available on Kubernetes to help accelerate development of modern microservices-based applications built using containers. Priyanka Sharma, technical evangelist ...
Trend Micro Advances DevSecOps via Kubernetes Integration
Trend Micro is now making it possible to employ Kubernetes to orchestrate security scans of container images conducted by Trend Micro Deep Security, its suite of of tools that rely on deep ...
Report: Containers Are Weakest Security Link Again
For a second year in a row, a survey of 1,200 IT security decision-makers conducted by the research firm CyberEdge Group finds that, in terms of attack surfaces that organizations feel they ...
Aqua Security Extends Platform Reach
Aqua Security this week extended the security capabilities it provides for serverless computing frameworks by adding the ability to scan functions running on those frameworks for vulnerabilities. In addition, version 4.0 of ...
IBM Looks to Build App Ecosystem Around Container Platform
IBM is aiming to expand the ecosystem of containerized applications residing on its cloud by making available Cloud Paks designed to make it easier to deploy applications using a set of tools ...
IBM Aligns With Twistlock on Container Security
Twistlock has extended its container security relationship with IBM to include integration with IBM Cloud Security Advisor, a hub through which IBM consolidates cybersecurity alerts pertaining to potential threats to the IBM ...
The Rise of Bare-Metal Kubernetes Servers
While most instances of Kubernetes today are deployed on virtual machines running in the cloud or on-premises, there is a growing number of instances of Kubernetes being deployed on bare-metal servers. The ...
