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.
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 ...
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 ...
