Mike Vizard

Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.

The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy

December 2, 2020 | acqusition, collaboration, devops, Salesforce, Slack

While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams ...

AWS Expands Breadth, Depth of DevOps Services Portfolio

December 1, 2020 | AWS, cloud services, devops tools, re:Invent 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a bevy of cloud services, including a preview of Amazon DevOps Guru, that collectively promise to make it much easier to deploy and manage cloud applications ...

Broadcom Extends AIOps Platform Reach

December 1, 2020 | AIOps, artificial intelligence, automation, IT operations

Broadcom today extended the reach of its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform to provide full-stack observability via integrations with 15 third-party data sources including Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, PagerDuty, Splunk, ServiceNow, ...

InfluxDB to Revamp Storage Engine for Time-Series Database

November 30, 2020 | compute, devops, open source, storage, time series database

InfluxData has launched an open source InfluxDB IOx project that it said will become the foundation for the next generation of the company’s time-series databases. At the same time, the company has ...

IBM Acquires Instana to Advance Observability Strategy

November 20, 2020 | acqusition, application performance management, ibm, instana, mergers and acquisitions, microservices, observability

IBM this week announced it plans to acquire Instana, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform that is optimized for microservices. Robin Hernandez, vice president of hybrid cloud management and ...

Buildkite Tightens CI/CD Integration With GitHub

November 20, 2020 | CI/CD, digital transformation, github, repo, source code

Buildkite has tightened the integration between its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery platform and the GitHub source code repository. Fred Showell, a senior product manager for Buildkite, said the integration will accelerate application ...