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.
An ongoing SolarWinds effort to drive down the cost of implementing DevOps has been extended by acquiring Loggly, a provider of log analytics software provided as a cloud service. Christoph Pfister, executive ...
One of the reasons application testing doesn’t occur as often or extensively as most IT organizations desire is because managing multiple simultaneous testing projects is complex. To help simplify the management of ...
A new survey from Red Hat shows the extent to which IT organizations are moving to modernize their IT environments: More than two-thirds of respondents (69 percent) reported they are using microservices ...
As reliance on Node.js to build applications in the enterprise has skyrocketed in recent years, the challenges with managing these applications have been manifold, because most existing tools don't provide much visibility ...
Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the nature of DevOps is about to change as developers spend less time writing code in favor of training models based on various types ...
Long before anyone ever coined the term DevOps there were terms such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT infrastructure library (ITIL) that at one time epitomized the state of the art ...
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is making available a suite of tools to unify the management of public and private clouds via a software-as-service (SaaS) applications. Bryan Jacquot, HPE worldwide user experience architect, says ...
Over the years there has been a steady flow of technologies developed by web-scale companies that have benefited the larger IT community by becoming open source projects. The latest two examples of ...
Most of what passes for management of IT infrastructure often amounts to little more than a Word document describing how a system is configured. HashiCorp developed Terraform to enable IT organizations to ...
Many IT organizations have aspired to build a private cloud only to find that they don’t have the granular control over IT infrastructure to deliver on that promise. To solve that problem, ...