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.
Secrets management is core to DevSecOps—how credentials are managed can make all the difference in preventing an application from being compromised in the first place. The challenge is making it as simple ...
Google and Netflix today jointly announced an open-source automated canary analysis service, dubbed Kayenta, that applies statistical analytics to optimize DevOps processes. Andrew Phillips, a product manager for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ...
NGINX has extended the reach and scope of a namesake application platform that the company is positioning as a bridge between legacy applications and emerging microservices architectures. The NGINX Application Platform now ...
VMware is moving to make it easier for organizations to automate data centers and public cloud based on its core hypervisor technology by injecting advanced analytics into its VMware vRealize Suite, enabling ...
IBM has unveiled a new development environment in the cloud designed to make it easier to build microservices. John Duimovich, IBM CTO for Java, said Microclimate provides a complete framework building applications ...
Google today announced that it is making available application performance management (APM) tools based on the same technology it employs to manage its internal IT environment. Morgan McLean, a product manager at ...
Organizations that have adopted DevSecOps processes may be making progress when it comes to improving cybersecurity, but it’s far from easy. A survey of 618 IT decision-makers conducted by Dimensional Research on ...
Salesforce this week announced it will plunk down $6.5 billion to acquire MuleSoft, a provider of application integration software currently used by more than 1,200 organizations. Once the deal is complete, MuleSoft ...
IBM today made its first foray into applying DevOps methodologies to building artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Announced at the IBM Think 2018 conference, the latest IBM tools and services for building AI ...
Making the transition to DevOps requires as much a shift in cultural mindset as it does new platforms for building, deploying and managing applications. Between the two, however, it’s often the extent ...