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.
Container Survey: IT Operations Teams Finally Get It
A survey of 500 IT leaders published this week by Diamanti, a provider of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform for containerized applications, finds 35% of respondents said IT operations teams are now driving ...
Kubernetes 1.15 Adds to API Kitty
The release team in charge of Kubernetes today announced a 1.15 quarterly update that adds a bevy of application programming interfaces (APIs) to help make the platform even more flexible than it ...
Aqua Security Brings Virtual Patching to Containers
Aqua Security has extended its container security platform to include a virtual patching capability, dubbed Vulnerability Shield, which enables DevSecOps teams to temporarily block access to software components until a patch can ...
Wind River Embraces Containers for Embedded Systems
Wind River this week announced it has added support for Docker container images and Kubernetes container orchestration software for its Wind River Linux operating system that is employed on a variety of ...
Palo Alto Networks Reports Identify Container Security Concerns
A pair of reports published by Palo Alto Networks makes it apparent that the biggest issue in container security is not how secure the containers are, but rather how they are configured ...
Tigera Embraces eBPF to Advance Container Networking
Tigera today announced it is adding support within the open source Calico network software project for the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) additions to the Linux kernel. eBPF is intended to provide ...
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 ...
