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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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OpenSSF Defines Baseline for Securing Open Source Software

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has launched an initiative to provide maintainers of open source software projects with a set of baseline security requirements that can be realistically attained and maintained by small teams.

Mike Vizard · Mar 3, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

The five DevOps engineer job postings shared this week include roles at Cox Communications, Whatnot and AccreteAI.

Mike Vizard · Mar 3, 2025
Application Performance Management/Monitoring

Apollo GraphQL Delivers on Promise to Integrate REST APIs

Apollo GraphQL has made generally available a set of connectors for REST application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it possible to use its GraphQL-based platform to declaratively integrate workflows and processes.

Mike Vizard · Feb 27, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

The five DevOps job opportunities posted this week are all engineer roles and companies include Costco wholesale and Northrop Grumman.

Mike Vizard · Feb 24, 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 · Feb 17, 2025
DOES17

DataRobot Acquires Agnostic to Gain Distributed Covalent Platform for AI Apps

DataRobot,a provider of a platform for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications, this week acquired Agnostic, a provider of an open source distributed computing platform, dubbed Covalent, that will be integrated with its machine learning operations (MLOps) framework. Based on Python, Covalent is an orchestration platform that provides IT teams with a serverless computing framework that […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 14, 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 · Feb 10, 2025
Cybersecurity

Open Source Software Security Concerns with Spike Curtis

Spike Curtis, principal engineer for Coder Technologies, dives into why open source software security concerns are valid, and why the only viable option is to invest more in securing software supply chains to mitigate potential threats. While open source benefits from community oversight, organizations must vet the projects they rely on to avoid security gaps. […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 6, 2025
AI

Anjali Arora on DevOps Teams Embracing Platform Engineering

Anjali Arora, chief technology officer at Perforce Software, discusses the inefficiencies in DevOps infrastructure and the role of platform engineering in addressing them. She notes the shift from traditional IT-managed infrastructure to DevOps-driven provisioning, and how it’s led to a fragmented and costly environment. To counter this, organizations are turning to platform engineering to strike […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 6, 2025
AI

Copado Adds Support for Salesforce Data Cloud to DevOps Platform

Copado this week extended the reach of its DevOps platform to include the Salesforce Data Cloud service, which is at the core of the artificial intelligence (AI) agents that Salesforce hopes organizations will build and deploy on its platforms.

Mike Vizard · Feb 6, 2025
Blogs

Survey: Increased Tool Sprawl Saps Developer Productivity

A survey of 300 IT professionals working in software engineering departments in the U.S. and Western Europe that have more than 150 developers, finds 75% are losing anywhere from six to 15 hours a week because of tool sprawl as respondents on average navigate 7.4 tools to build applications.

Mike Vizard · Feb 5, 2025
Blogs

Dynatrace Extends AI Reach to Bridge DevOps Divide

Dynatrace, today at its Perform 2025 conference, extended the reach of its Davis artificial intelligence (AI) engine to provide predictive and generative capabilities that complement the causal analytics already provided. Additionally, Dynatrace unveiled an Observability for Developers module for its platform that includes a Live Debugger tool that will be made generally available in 90 […]

Mike Vizard · Feb 4, 2025
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Game on. Our round-up of the DevOps job market this week includes a DevOps and SRE role with Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Management.

Mike Vizard · Feb 3, 2025