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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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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Our highlighted DevOps job postings this week include opportunities at Handshake, Publix and Community Options Inc.

Mike Vizard · Jun 16, 2025
AI

New Relic Adds Support for Model Context Protocol to Observability Platform

New Relic this week added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its observability platform to surface insights into artificial intelligence (AI) agents and applications. Originally developed by Anthropic, MCP is rapidly becoming a de facto application programming interface (API) for enabling interoperability between AI agents and other sources of data. New Relic has […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 13, 2025
AI

JFrog Extends Alliance With NVIDIA to Secure AI Software Supply Chain

JFrog and NVIDIA today announced they have expanded the integrations between their software development platforms to now include the Enterprise AI Factory, a set of frameworks and blueprints for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications. As a result, software artifacts created using the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory can be housed in the JFrog Software Supply Chain […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 11, 2025
AI

Datadog Adds Raft of Additional AI Agents and Tools to Portfolio

Datadog at its DASH 2025 conference today previewed a raft of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate tasks ranging from assessing infrastructure alerts that normally require the expertise of a site reliability engineer (SRE), to fixing code and triaging cybersecurity issues using the company’s security information event management (SIEM) platform. In addition, Datadog is also […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 10, 2025
Video Interviews

How DevOps Strategy Is Evolving with Jim Cassens

Perforce Software CEO Jim Cassens dives into how the company’s overall approach to DevOps is evolving in the wake of a series of acquisitions. Cassens talks through the company’s recent spate of acquisitions and how thoughtful integration—not just portfolio expansion—is driving value for customers. He also highlights the growing role of synthetic data, AI-enhanced testing […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 10, 2025
Video Interviews

How AI Is Transforming the Future of Software Development with Wing To

Digital.ai CTO Wing To delves into how the way code is written, deployed and managed will fundamentally change in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. Cutting through the extremes, AI won’t erase entry-level dev jobs, nor will it fully replace senior developers. Instead, it’s changing what both groups focus on. Entry-level devs will need to learn […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 10, 2025
AI

Zencoder Adds AI Agent to Test Code to Portfolio

Zencoder today made available a public beta of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that extends its platform for writing code into the realm of application testing. Company CEO Andrew Filev said Zentester in addition to making it simple for application developers to test their own code, will augment DevOps teams by making it possible to […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 10, 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 · Jun 9, 2025
AI

Ciroos.AI Preps AI SRE Agents Trained to Automate Incident Management

Ciroos.AI this week emerged from stealth to provide early access to a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that have been trained to augment site reliability engineers (SREs). Fresh off raising $21 million in additional funding, Ciroos.AI CEO Ronak Desai said the SRE Teammate provides access to multiple extensible AI agents that have been trained […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 6, 2025
AI

Logz.io Unveils Observability Platform Designed First for AI Agents

Logz.io today launched an edition of its observability platform that is intended to be primarily used by artificial intelligence (AI) agents rather than DevOps engineers. Company CEO Tomer Levy said that as DevOps continues to evolve it’s become apparent that most tasks pertaining to observability will soon be assigned to AI agents. This edition of […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 5, 2025
AI

Postman Adds AI Agent Mode to Design, Build and Deploy APIs

Postman today revealed it has developed artificial intelligence (AI) agents for its platform for designing and building application programming interfaces (APIs). Announced at the POST/CON 2025 event, the Agent Mode enables developers to, via a natural language interface, automate entire multi-step workflows spanning the designing, testing, documenting and monitoring of a single API or a […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 4, 2025
Blogs

Survey Surfaces Uneven Adoption of SBOMs to Secure Software

A survey of 100 security professionals finds nearly half (48%) of security professionals admit their organizations are falling behind on meeting software bill material (SBOM) requirements as specified by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memo M-22-18, Executive Order 14028, and the European Union (EU) Cyber Resilience Act. Conducted during the recent RSAC […]

Mike Vizard · Jun 4, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Considering a career change? Johnson & Johnson, Sharetec and Meritore Technologies are just three of the highlighted DevOps jobs this week.

Mike Vizard · Jun 2, 2025
Blogs

Redgate Extends Effort to Integrate Database Management and DevOps Workflows

Redgate has updated its Flyway platform for applying DevOps workflows to database platforms to now provide deeper integration into command line interface (CLI) tools and integrated developer environments (IDEs). In addition, the Flyway platform now enables state-based deployments using scripts that can be generated based on a specific schema. Finally, Redgate is also adding options […]

Mike Vizard · May 30, 2025
AI

Harness Adds MCP Server to Expose Data to Third-Party AI Tools

Harness today revealed it has developed a model context protocol (MCP) server through which it will be able to provide more context to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, agents and platforms that are being used to build software. Rohan Gupta, a principal product manager for continuous delivery and AI DevOps for Harness, said exposing the data […]

Mike Vizard · May 29, 2025
AI

New Relic Integrates AI Agents with Copilot Coding Agent from GitHub

New Relic this week made available a preview of an integration with the artificial intelligence (AI) agents it created for its observability platform with the AI agents that GitHub has developed. Nic Benders, chief technical strategist for New Relic, said AI agents that the company has developed will now be able to create an issue […]

Mike Vizard · May 29, 2025
AI

AWS Application Modernization Service Employs AI Agents to Refactor Code

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made generally available a service that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to migrate and modernize infrastructure, applications and code. Sriram Devanathan, general manager for low-code/no-code AppBuilder service at AWS, said the AWS Transform service provides access to a natural language chat interface that makes it simpler to either […]

Mike Vizard · May 28, 2025
Blogs

Futurum Group Survey Surfaces DevSecOps Progress on Multiple Fronts

A survey of 110 security leaders finds all are investing in software supply chain security, with application security posture management (ASPM) and DevSecOps automation and orchestration topping the priority list, followed closely by security composition analysis (SCA) tools, application programming interface (API) security and dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools. In addition, 30% of respondents […]

Mike Vizard · May 27, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Browse our weekly round-up of the latest posts in the DevOps jobs market for your perusal, including this week, roles at Google and SAP.

Mike Vizard · May 26, 2025
AI

Perforce Commits to Building Agentic AI Fabric for DevOps Workflows

Perforce Software this week committed to building an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) framework that will be embedded across its entire portfolio of DevOps tools and platforms. Company CTO Anjali Arora said Perforce Intelligence will provide access to a set of AI agents that have been trained to automate a range of software engineering tasks that […]

Mike Vizard · May 22, 2025