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.
Google Extends Spinnaker Continuous Delivery Platform to Kubernetes
The team behind the open source Spinnaker continuous deployment platform have enhanced the level of support being provided for containerized applications deployed on top of Kubernetes clusters. Originally developed by Google and ...
IBM Employs Kubernetes to Tame Multi-Cloud Computing
IBM this week extended the scope of its strategic investment in Kubernetes with the launch of Multicloud Manager, a centralized framework for managing thousands of Kubernetes applications regardless of where they are ...
Aqua Security Partners with Pivotal on Container Security
IT organizations that have embraced Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) now can download container security software from Aqua Security to scan containers running on the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for vulnerabilities. Now generally available ...
The Linux Foundation to Drive Shift to Container Network Functions
The rate at which cloud-native network functions (CNF) are going to employed to drive next-generation networking services is about to accelerate following a decision by the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) and ...
Splunk to Add Developer Platform Based on Kubernetes
Splunk this week revealed at its .conf18 conference that it has created a beta version of a Splunk Developer Cloud platform based on Kubernetes to both foster the development of microservices-based applications ...
Microsoft Further Embraces Kubernetes and Containers
Microsoft this week at the Ignite 2018 conference made it clear that Kubernetes is at the heart of its hybrid cloud computing strategy spanning the network edge to the cloud. As part ...
Competition Among Container Platforms Heats Up
CNCF survey highlights movement in the container sector The most recent biannual survey of 2,400 IT professionals conducted by The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finds that 40 percent of respondents who ...
NetApp Acquires StackPointCloud to Stake Kubernetes Claim
NetApp this week signaled a significant expansion of its cloud-native computing ambitions by acquiring StackPointCloud, a provider of a Kubernetes-as-a-service platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Anthony Lye, general manager ...
Dataiku Embraces Containers to Advance AI
Dataiku, a provider of a framework through which developers of artificial intelligence (AI) application collaborate, this week announced that its software now can create a Docker image containing AI code and required ...
IDC Survey Finds Containers Driving Mission-Critical Apps
A survey of 301 IT leaders conducted by International Data Corp. (IDC) finds that, increasingly, they are comfortable using containers within mission-critical applications. According to the survey, 76 percent are now broadly ...
