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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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AI

Cisco to Add AI Agents to Splunk Observability Platforms

Cisco today at its Splunk .Conf25 conference previewed a series of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for the Splunk Observability platform that are capable of automating the collection of telemetry data using open source OpenTelemetry software, detecting issues, identifying root causes, and applying fixes. At the same time, Cisco also launched Cisco Data Fabric, a platform […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 9, 2025
AI

JFrog Unveils DevOps Platform for the Agentic AI Era

JFrog at its annual swampUP conference unfurled a DevOps platform, dubbed JFrog Fly, designed to enable application developers to more easily integrate artificial intelligence (AI) agents within workflows at scale. Via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic, JFrog Fly is designed to integrate with multiple AI repos and platforms such as Cursor, GitHub […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 9, 2025
Blogs

Survey: Most IT Teams Not Prepared to Manage AI Workloads

A ControlMonkey survey of 300 IT leaders finds most organizations are unprepared to scale AI workloads, citing automation gaps, reliability, skills shortages, and cost challenges. Modernizing infrastructure management with IaC is critical to meeting demand.

Mike Vizard · Sep 9, 2025
Blogs

Empromptu Unveils Vibecoding Platform for Building Enterprise-Class Apps

Empromptu has launched its AI coding platform for building enterprise-class applications, featuring RAG, LLMOps, explainability, and SOC-2 compliance. Designed for scalability, accuracy, and predictable pricing, it aims to outperform vibecoding tools and accelerate enterprise AI app development.

Mike Vizard · Sep 9, 2025
Blogs

Perforce Adds Small Language Model to Create Synthetic Data for App Testing

Perforce has added AI to its Delphix platform, enabling DevOps teams to use small language models (SLMs) for secure synthetic data testing—even in air-gapped, regulated environments. The update automates data masking, supports compliance, and advances AI-driven DevOps workflows.

Mike Vizard · Sep 9, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Browse our weekly DevOps jobs report, spotlighting top roles, salaries and trends to help professionals advance their careers.

Mike Vizard · Sep 8, 2025
AI

Report: ChatGPT-5 Coding Gains Come at a Higher Cost

A report published this week by Sonar finds the GPT-5 platform released by OpenAI has the potential to generate better code but at significantly higher costs. Based on over 4,400 Java tasks, the report finds that depending on which of the four levels of reasoning capabilities that OpenAI now makes available, the overall quality of […]

Mike Vizard · Sep 4, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

The five DevOps job postings shared this week are selected from available opportunities at Citi, Qualcomm, DCI solutions and others.

Mike Vizard · Sep 1, 2025
Video Interviews

Bringing Order to Chaotic Software Engineering Workflows

Software development has never been tidy, but the current landscape feels more chaotic than ever. Shannon Mason, chief strategy officer for Tempo, dives into why software engineering workflows remain chaotic and what teams should be doing to try and restore application development order. Developers today face a relentless push to innovate while keeping complex codebases […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 29, 2025
Features

Survey Surfaces Raft of AI Coding Issues Involving Embedded Systems

A new survey of 785 development and security professionals reveals that 89% of organizations are using AI coding assistants for embedded systems, but concerns over security, licensing risks, and governance remain. Python leads as the top programming language, while SBOM adoption and SCA scans rise across industries.

Mike Vizard · Aug 28, 2025
Blogs

Broadcom Adds Argo and Ubuntu Support to VMware Cloud Foundation

Broadcom today at the VMware Explore 2025 conference unfurled a set of developer services for the instance of Kubernetes it has embedded into its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform that includes the Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform. At the same time, Broadcom expanded its alliance with Canonical to include enterprise-grade support for instances of VCF […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 26, 2025
AI

Harness Delivers on AI Promise for DevOps

Harness launches an AI-powered DevOps platform that uses knowledge graph–driven agents to automate pipelines, testing and operations across the software delivery lifecycle.

Mike Vizard · Aug 26, 2025
Blogs

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 · Aug 25, 2025
Blogs

SRE.ai Looks to Unify DevOps Workflows Across Multiple SaaS Applications

SRE.ai this week revealed plans to build a DevOps platform for deploying custom software across multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platforms. Fresh off raising $7.2 million in funding, SRE.ai CEO Raj Kadiyala said as the volume of code developed using low-code/no-code and, more recently, artificial intelligence (AI) tools increases, there needs to be a more automated […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 22, 2025
Video Interviews

MCP Emerges as a Catalyst for Modern DevOps Processes

Loreli Cadapan, VP of product at CloudBees, discusses how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic will provide the foundation for reinventing DevOps workflows. Cadapan explains that MCP acts as a bridge between large language models and enterprise DevOps environments, functioning as a kind of control plane. It can connect with different CI/CD tools […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 21, 2025
Video Interviews

How AI-Created Code Will Strain DevOps Workflows

Nick Durkin, Field CTO at Harness, explains why as artificial intelligence (AI) tools are relied on more to create code, it’s now only a matter of time before bottlenecks in existing DevOps workflows become exacerbated to the point where they need to be re-engineered. Durkin noted that while AI is generating more code, organizations are […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 21, 2025
AI

HoundDog.ai Code Scanner Shifts Data Privacy Responsibility Left

HoundDog.ai today made generally available a namesake static code scanner that enables security and privacy teams to enforce guardrails on sensitive data embedded in large language model (LLM) prompts or exposed artificial intelligence (AI) data sinks, such as logs and temporary files, before any code is pushed to production. Company CEO Amjad Afanah said the […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 21, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Job-hunting this summer? Check out this week’s round-up of DevOps job opportunities including roles at Salesforce, Frontera Health and AMD.

Mike Vizard · Aug 18, 2025
Blogs

AppSignal Adds OpenTelemetry Support to Monitoring Platform

AppSignal has extended its application performance monitoring platform to provide native support for OpenTelemetry, an open source framework for instrumenting applications that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Wes Oudshoorn, chief product officer for AppSignal, said the implementation of OpenTelemetry is designed to enable DevOps teams with a […]

Mike Vizard · Aug 15, 2025