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) has expanded the scope of its purview by adding open source NATS messaging software to an expanding list of technologies it now oversees. NATS messaging software ...
Rundeck has emerged as a popular open source job scheduler and orchestration option for IT automation that enables IT teams to build runbooks that can be easily shared with others. The company ...
One of the biggest challenges associated with DevOps is cutting through all the various platforms and applications alerts to make sense of what’s occurring in an IT environment, much less manage it ...
As organizations move to embrace DevOps, some have inadvertently left database administrators (DBAs) behind. As a result, developers increasingly find themselves managing databases, as DBAs can’t keep up with the rate of ...
Sauce Labs has added additional debugging and analytics capabilities to its testing platform to make it easier to manage continuous testing across multiple application development projects. Lubos Parobek, vice president of product ...
VMware today added a bevy of services to its portfolio that make managing instances of its software running in a public cloud easier. Additions to the VMware cloud portfolio include VMware Hybrid ...
CA Technologies further advanced its staged goal of unifying its disparate portfolio of DevOps automation tools by announcing today a new release of CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys) software now directly integrated ...
To foster more application development in the DevOps era, SAP at the Mobile World Congress 2018 conference announced it is adding a consumption-based pricing option to its SAP Cloud Platform environment. Based ...
Chef today expanded the reach of its InSpec platform for automating compliance management with an update that adds support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public clouds, as well as ...
A survey of 1,500 customers conducted by Chef illustrates the lacking state of DevSecOps in the enterprise today, finding that nearly three-quarters of IT organizations still manually assess whether applications comply with ...