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.

OpenLegacy Partners With Compuware to Advance DevOps on Mainframes

October 9, 2019 | API, compuware, devops, mainframes, mainframes and DevOps, OpenLegacy, REST

OpenLegacy has allied with Compuware to make it easier to build and debug microservices-based applications employing REST application programming interfaces (APIs) to access data residing on mainframes. Zeev Avidan, chief product officer ...

Dynatrace Extends APM Reach Into Business Analytics

October 9, 2019 | apm, application performance management, business analytics, business intelligence, cloudbees, Dynatrace, gitlab, user experience

A growing number of providers of tools widely employed by DevOps teams that are extending their reach into business analytics has been joined by Dynatrace. The provider of a namesake application performance ...

Eclipse Foundation Looks to Create Cloud-Based IDE Standards

October 8, 2019 | Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group, Eclipse Foundation, IDE, interoperability, standards, working group

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the formation of a working group to create standards for cloud-based integrated development environments (IDEs) led by Broadcom, EclipseSource, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, SAP, Software AG ...

Trend Micro Partners With Snyk to Advance DevSecOps

October 8, 2019 | alerting, API, devsecops, shift left, Snyk, Trend Micro, virtual patches

Trend Micro today announced an alliance with Snyk through which alerts about vulnerabilities in open source code will be passed on to the tools Trend Micro makes available to apply virtual patches ...

WhiteSource Extends DevSecOps Reach

October 7, 2019 | CI/CD, continuous integration, devsecops, IDE, security, WhiteSource

WhiteSource has extended its platform that enables developers to more easily address application security issues to provide integrations with GitLab Core and integrated development environments (IDEs) based on the open source Eclipse ...

Red Hat Streamlines Operating System Update Cycle

October 7, 2019 | CentOS, developers, operating system, OS update, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat is looking to make it easier for DevOps teams to absorb leading-edge innovations as they are slipstreamed into a new distribution of CentOS. CentOS is a distribution of Linux based ...

ESG Survey Sees Long DevSecOps Road Ahead

October 4, 2019 | devops, devsecops, ESG, security, survey

A study published by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in collaboration with Data Theorem, a provider of tools for securing application programming interfaces (APIs) and mobile applications, finds that while a lot of ...

Dell Boomi Dives Into DevOps

October 3, 2019 | API lifecycle management, CI/CD, Dell Boomi, devops, integration platform as a service, iPaaS

Boomi, a Dell Technologies business, today announced it has extended its integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) platform to include application programming interface (API) lifecycle management capabilities. Announced at the Boomi World 2019 conference, the ...

Kong Employs Machine Learning to Extend Services Control

October 2, 2019 | cloud-native, Kong, machine learning, monolithic, networking, open source

At the Kong Summit 2019 conference, Kong today announced it has acquired Insomnia, an open source testing tool for application programming interfaces (APIs). In addition, it has added support for REST, Kafka ...

Render Taps Manifold to Expand Cloud Services for Developers

September 30, 2019 | cloud services, devops tools, Manifold, marketplace, PaaS, platform-as-a-service, Render

The rate at which DevOps teams that rely on cloud services from Render will be able to discover new tools is about to increase significantly, thanks to Render's new alliance with Manifold, ...