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.
Minimus Makes Hardened Container Images Freely Available to All Developers
Minimus today announced it is making its entire catalog of hardened container images available for free without requiring an application developer to even register to download them ...
Upbound Unfurls Control Plane for Managing AI Inference Workloads
Upbound today revealed it has extended an instance of the open source control plane it developed to enable IT teams to manage inference engines running artificial intelligence (AI) models ...
Why Kubernetes Utilization Is Stuck Below 40%
Kubernetes was sold on the premise that clusters would scale themselves into efficient, elastic infrastructure. The reality on most production estates looks nothing like that — average utilization sits stubbornly in the ...
DevZero Launches Automation Platform to Dynamically Rightsize Kubernetes Clusters
DevZero today launched an autonomous infrastructure optimization platform for Kubernetes clusters based on a profiler that continuously monitors clusters, nodes, and individual workloads to build statistical models of demand for resources. Company ...
Red Hat Expands OpenShift Application Development Environment
Red Hat this week added a bevy of additional capabilities to its OpenShift platform, including adding support for live migration of virtual machines and making generally available a set of hardened container ...
Solo.io Extends kagent Runtime to NemoClaw Governance Framework for AI Agents
Solo.io this week added support for the open source NemoClaw framework for safely deploying artificial intelligence (AI) agents in a kagent runtime environment on Kubernetes that is being advanced under the auspices ...
Trilio Extends Disaster Recovery Reach to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Trilio is making available a technology preview of an instance of its disaster recovery (DR) platform that supports Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which enables IT teams to encapsulate virtual machines in a ...
Argo CD’s Rise and the Future of AI-Driven Deployments
GitOps went from an emerging practice to a production standard faster than most infrastructure trends. With roughly two-thirds of organizations now running Argo CD in production, the question has shifted from whether ...
Report: Utilization of Kubernetes Infrastructure Remains Abysmal
An analysis of tens of thousands of Kubernetes clusters deployed on cloud services published today by CAST AI finds average CPU utilization stood at just 8% in 2025, while memory utilization was ...
Bring Your Own CNI: Inside VMware’s Open Kubernetes Strategy
Kubernetes networking has always involved trade-offs, and one of the most persistent frustrations for platform teams has been getting locked into a default CNI that does not fit their specific requirements. With ...
