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.
A global survey of 1,300 software engineers, developers, IT leaders and executives found half of respondents (50%) are in the process of implementing an observability platform. Another 23% of respondents said that ...
JFrog today revealed it has acquired Upswift as part of an effort to extend its DevOps reach to edge computing platforms. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Upswift has created agent ...
Google announced today that Sqlcommenter, an open source project that provides access to an object-relational mapping (ORM) auto-instrumentation library, is being merged with OpenTelemetry, an open source project for building agent software ...
In advance of its ChefCon 2021 conference, Progress today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Progress Chef automation platform that includes managed services and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its offerings ...
CircleCI today announced CircleCI webhooks, a feature that enables software engineering teams to build integrations that react to CircleCI job and workflow status notifications in near-real-time. Tom Trahan, vice president of business ...
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as an incubating project as part of an ongoing effort to simplify instrumentation of software ...
GitHub this week made available an update to its command-line interface (CLI) that enables DevOps teams to add extensions to workflows. Billy Griffin, director of engineering for GitHub, said the company’s initial ...
GitLab this week released an update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that primarily addresses the need to improve developer productivity. Parker Ennis, senior product marketing manager for GitLab, said ...
A survey of more than 200 senior IT leaders at organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today finds only 4% consider their organizations to be experts when it comes to continuous ...
Cosmonic today revealed it has donated its universal application runtime for building cloud-native applications using the WebAssembly (Wasm) development framework to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The Cosmonic wasmCloud runtime makes ...