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.
Aqua Security Open Sources Container Pen Test
Aqua Security is trying to level the container security playing field by making available an open source edition of a penetration testing tool designed specifically for container clusters. Rani Osnat, vice president ...
Red Hat Advances Container Storage
Red Hat has moved to make storage a standard element of a container platform with the release of version 3.10 of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (OCS), previously known as Red Hat ...
CNCF Promotes Prometheus Container Monitoring Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today at a PromCon 2018 conference that the open source Prometheus container monitoring software project has officially become the second project to graduate, following the ...
Red Hat Makes Case for Cloud Native Virtualization
Red Hat is taking an effort to encapsulate virtual machines with containers to the next level by making available a developer preview that provides access to an implementation of the open source ...
Google Commits to On-Prem Managed GKE Instance
Google this week announced it will extend the reach of its managed services for containerized applications running on Kubernetes into on-premises environments. Announced at the Google Cloud Next 2018 conference, the GKE ...
BlueData Launches Open Source Kubernetes Storage Project
BlueData has launched an open source project that seeks to make it easier to deploy big data and artificial intelligence (AI) application workloads on top of Kubernetes. Tom Phelan, chief Architect of ...
Container Adoption Starts to Outpace DevOps
A new survey finds the number of organizations using containers is poised to pass the number of organizations employing DevOps processes in the months ahead. Less clear, however, is the degree to ...
Making the Case for Kata Containers
The debate over whether containers and hypervisors complement each other or eliminate the need for the latter remains contentious. Most containers today are deployed on top of hypervisors largely because of a ...
Rackspace Unveils Kubernetes-as-a-Service Offering
Rackspace, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), has unveiled what it describes as the first managed Kubernetes service being made available using a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Announced at the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) ...
Qualys Dives into Container Security
Qualys at the DockerCon 2018 conference this week unfurled Qualys Container Security (CS), a cloud-based application that promises to make it easier to embed container security controls into DevOps processes. Hari Srinivasan, ...
