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 survey of more than 500 IT and development professionals conducted by Atlassian finds two-thirds of respondents have slowed down the frequency of software delivery since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced ...
HashiCorp today made available an update to its Consul service mesh that makes it easier to integrate legacy and modern applications. Service meshes have emerged as a framework for documenting and controlling ...
The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of ...
The OpenStack community today officially released Ussuri, an update to the cloud management framework that tightens integration between components including the ability to automatically provision bare-metal servers using the Ironic IT automation ...
The path through which open source projects become industry standard is about to become a lot smoother. The Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an arm of The Linux Foundation, this week announced it ...
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp ...
LaunchNotes today launched a namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing the communications surrounding the release of an application. Company co-founder Jake Brereton said LaunchNotes streamlines internal and external communications for DevOps teams, ...
F5 Networks, at its Agility 2020 online event today, unfurled Beacon, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables IT teams to better monitor and troubleshoot applications using telemetry data collected from networking equipment ...
OpsRamp announced today that IT organizations that subscribe to its discovery and monitoring tools will now also receive free access to the company’s AIOps and remote access management service tiers for one ...
