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 Lack of Kubernetes Expertise Hindering Adoption
A survey of 152 attendees of the recent Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2018 conference published this week finds lack of expertise (53 percent) and operational complexity (50 percent) are the top two challenges ...
App Container Market Forecast to Reach $4.2B by 2022
A new report from 451 Research predicts a significant increase in the number of IT organizations deploying containers in the coming year will drive a 30 percent compound annual increase in the ...
Red Hat Survey Sees Major Spike in Container Adoption
Although there’s a lot of interest in all things related to containers, mainstream adoption among enterprise IT organizations is still in its early days. But a recent survey of 400 customers conducted ...
Aqua Security Partners with Datadog to Advance Container Security
One of the most significant issues cybersecurity teams must come to terms with in 2019 is how container security should be implemented and maintained. The days when cybersecurity teams were solely responsible ...
CloudBees Marries Jenkins X to Kubernetes
CloudBees has launched a continuous delivery platform designed specifically for deploying applications on top of Kubernetes. CloudBees Core for Kubernetes Continuous Delivery is based on Jenkins X, a modern instance of a ...
Mirantis Launches Managed Service for Kubernetes On-Premises
Mirantis has added a managed Kubernetes service to its portfolio specifically designed for on-premises IT environments with a slight twist. The goal is to provide those managed services with an eye toward ...
CNCF Elevates Envoy Service Proxy Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week announced the open source Envoy service proxy software originally developed by Lyft has now graduated. Envoy becomes the third CNCF project to achieve this ...
Red Hat Ties Kubernetes Platform Closer to OpenStack
Red Hat this week moved to tie application development and deployment environments based on Kubernetes closer to the latest version of the OpenStack cloud computing framework. The Red Hat OpenStack 14 release ...
VMware Acquires Heptio to Add Kubernetes Expertise
VMware announced it is acquiring Heptio as part of an ongoing effort to extend its reach into clusters based on Kubernetes. Announced at VMworld Europe 2018 conference, the acquisition adds several Kubernetes ...
IBM Hybrid Cloud Plan for Red Hat Hinges on Kubernetes
IBM and Red Hat made it clear that the foundation of their combined hybrid cloud computing strategy will be Kubernetes once the $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat closes in the second ...
