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Mike Vizard

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.

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Survey Surfaces Downstream DevOps Challenges Created by AI Code

A survey of 900 engineers, platform leaders and technical managers published today finds nearly two thirds (63%) report their organization is shipping code faster since adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Conducted by Coleman Parkes on behalf of Harness, a provider of a DevOps platform, the survey also suggests, however, that same code is creating more downstream […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 30, 2025
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env zero Revamps Infrastructure Automation Platform for AI Era

Env Zero (formerly env0) has revamped its Cloud Governance Platform with AI and MCP support, including a new Static Code Analyzer Agent to streamline IaC governance, compliance, and security across tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Kubernetes.

Mike Vizard · Sep 30, 2025
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Report: Microsoft, AWS and Google Atop Software Development Platform Heap

The Futurum Group’s latest Signal report on Software Development Platforms names Microsoft, AWS, and Google as the top three providers, each achieving Elite status with scores above 90. Microsoft led across all five measured attributes — business value, innovation, vision, execution, and ecosystem — underscoring its longstanding developer focus. AWS and Google continue to close the gap with strong AI integration and ecosystem growth, while challengers like Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, GitHub, Atlassian, and Salesforce also scored competitively.

Mike Vizard · Sep 30, 2025
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Harness Acquires Qwiet AI to Gain Code Testing Tool

Harness has acquired Qwiet AI (formerly ShiftLeft) to integrate AI-driven application security directly into its DevOps platform. By combining Qwiet AI’s Code Property Graph technology with Harness’s AI agents and Traceable’s API security, the company aims to make security a first-class citizen in the SDLC, enabling true DevSecOps workflows that use AI to detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities at scale.

Mike Vizard · Sep 29, 2025
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com continues to provide a weekly jobs report to highlight career opportunities for DevOps professionals and opportunities highlighted this week include roles at NMI, HiBob and FloQast.

Mike Vizard · Sep 29, 2025
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Latest DORA Report from Google Surfaces Significant AI Adoption

Google this week published the results of its annual DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) survey that finds 90% of the IT professionals surveyed are now using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, with 80% reporting they are more productive as a result. The survey of nearly 5,000 IT professionals also finds that respondents now have a median […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 27, 2025
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HashiCorp Embraces Agentic AI to Streamline Management of IT

HashiCorp today added a slew of updates to its platform for managing and securing IT infrastructure, including integration with multiple automation frameworks and a preview of an ability to use artificial intelligence (AI) agents to provision infrastructure as code (IaC). Announced at the HashiConf 2025, the unit of IBM will this week showcase Project infragraph, […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 25, 2025
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Open Letter Calls for Fundamental Change to Open Source Economics

Leading stewards of several major open source projects today issued a joint open letter calling for major changes to be made to the way the IT infrastructure used to support these initiatives is funded, operated and maintained. Posted on the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) website, the open letter signed by representatives from open source […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 23, 2025
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Harness Extends Scope and Reach of AI Platform for Automating DevOps Workflows

Harness today previewed two additional modules for its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for DevOps that automate code maintenance and automatically rollback a deployment whenever an issue is detected. Additionally, Harness is adding an Architect Mode to the Harness AI platform that interactively engages DevOps engineers to design pipelines based on best practices for security, quality […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 23, 2025
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 22, 2025
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Zencoder Adds CLI Edition of AI Agent That Generates Code

Zencoder this week added a command line interface (CLI) option to its artificial intelligence (AI) agent for creating code. Company CEO Andrew Filev said application development teams can use Zen CLI as an alternative to previous support for integrated development environments. The overall goal is to provide developers with a range of options to take […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 19, 2025
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Harness CEO Calls for Reimagining of CI/CD Workflows in the AI Era

Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal at an Unscripted 2025 event in New York today told attendees the time has come to reimagine how continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms function in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Rather than simply failing a build it’s now possible for the CI/CD platform to automatically fix issues that previously required […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 18, 2025
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Honeycomb Adds Ability to Orchestrate Multiple AI Agents to Observability Platform

Honeycomb has added a Canvas framework for managing and orchestrating multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents as they observe and query massive amounts of telemetry data. Morgante Pell, technical lead manager for engineering at Honeycomb, said Canvas is the latest extension to a series of Honeycomb Intelligence initiatives that, for example, provide access to an AI […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 17, 2025
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Oracle Delivers Java 25 Edition of Venerable Programming Language for the AI Era

Oracle today announced the availability of Java 25, which provides capabilities that make it simpler to build both artificial intelligence (AI) applications. At the same time, Oracle also pledged to provide long-term support (LTS) for Java 25 for the next eight years. Chad Arimura, vice president of developer relations for Oracle, said this edition of […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 16, 2025
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Pulumi Previews AI Agents Trained to Automate Infrastructure Management

Pulumi today revealed it is now making available in preview a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its namesake infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform that are capable of diagnosing issues and autonomously completing tasks when permitted. Company CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Neo adds a set of AI agents specifically trained to automate the management of […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 16, 2025
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MongoDB Taps AI Agent to Launch Application Modernization Platform

MongoDB today unveiled an application modernization platform that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to analyze and convert legacy applications into code that can be used to deploy a modern application on its document database. Shilpa Kolhar, senior vice president of product and engineering for MongoDB, said the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform (AMP) will […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 16, 2025
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CodeRabbit Adds CLI Support to Code Review Platform Based on AI

CodeRabbit expands its AI-powered code review platform with CLI support, auto unit test generation, custom pre-merge checks, and an MCP client. Backed by $60M in new funding, CodeRabbit helps developers catch routine issues, improve test coverage, and secure AI-generated code at scale.

Mike Vizard · Sep 16, 2025
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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 15, 2025
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Oasis Security Identifies Security Weakness in Cursor AI Coding Tool

Oasis Security this week warned application developers of a security flaw in the Cursor artificial intelligence (AI) code editor developed by Anysphere, Inc. that potentially could be used to allow a maliciously crafted code repository to execute code as soon as it’s opened using Cursor. Erez Schwartz, threat research engineer at Oasis Security, said that […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 12, 2025
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OpenTelemetry Extensions to Enable Observability of AI Agents

OpenTelemetry is extending support for AI agents, enabling unified observability across apps and intelligent automation of IT tasks. Discover how Cisco and Splunk are driving this next phase of telemetry innovation.

Mike Vizard · Sep 12, 2025
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Survey Surfaces Software Engineering Challenges Following Adoption of AI

A survey of 101 senior engineering leaders published this week finds while 87% believe their organization is “prepared” or “very prepared” to adopt artificial intelligence (AI). It’s also clear that several hurdles remain, most notably making sure application development teams have the quality assurance skill and expertise needed to validate AI outputs (66%). Conducted by […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 11, 2025
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Warp Embeds AI Agents into a CLI to Provide Better Feedback Loop

Warp has added a version of its artificial intelligence (AI) agent for writing code that integrates directly within a command line interface (CLI). Company CEO Zach Lloyd said rather than working with AI agents within the context of an integrated development environment, Warp Code embeds AI agents with a CLI that is likely to prove […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 11, 2025