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.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week that the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project, which many IT teams are employing to manage compliance as code, has officially graduated. Torin Sandall, ...
Lightstep this week announced general availability of a Change Intelligence observability platform based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events each day. Ben Sigelman, Lightstep's CEO, said ...
CloudBolt Software today released a Winter update to its cloud management platform that aims to bridge the divide between DevOps teams and traditional IT administrators. IT administrators can now employ the CloudBolt ...
AppDynamics today announced its agent software, which it provides as part of its observability platform, now has the ability to enforce application security policies. Developed in collaboration with the security business unit ...
Oracle announced today it is adding a GraalVM Enterprise virtual machine for building Java applications to Java SE Subscription at no additional cost. Donald Smith, senior director of product management from the ...
CloudBees announced today the appointment of Stephen DeWitt as its new CEO, taking over from Sacha Labourey, who will become chief strategy officer. Labrourey said after leading the company for the past ...
HashiCorp today announced the general availability of its Consul service mesh as a managed service on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) along with a beta release of a managed instance of HCP ...
Atlassian today announced the general availability of Cloud Enterprise, a cloud-based service through which organizations can mix and match the company’s various offerings under a single subscription. The company has signaled its ...
Tidelift today announced the general availability of a platform dubbed Tidelift catalogs, through which enterprise IT organizations can more effectively manage their open source supply chains. Donald Fischer, Tidelift's CEO, says the ...
vFunction has developed an eponymous platform capable of automatically converting a monolithic application written in Java into a set of microservices. The startup is emerging from stealth mode today. Fresh from raising ...