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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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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 · Dec 15, 2024
Blogs

Nobl9 Simplifies Tracking SLOs Across Complex Workflows

Nobl9 this week added an ability to combine multiple service level objectives (SLOs) into one logical entity that DevOps teams can combine to more easily track specific user journeys and processes.

Mike Vizard · Dec 12, 2024
Blogs

Google Previews Jules AI Agent to Automate Software Engineering Tasks

Google today previewed an experimental edition of the Jules coding agent, that makes use of next-generation multimodal Gemini 2.0 models to automate coding tasks. Designed to be integrated with code repositories such as GitHub, Julles is capable of creating and executing multi-step plans and processes, including modifying multiple files, preparing pull requests and fixing bugs […]

Mike Vizard · Dec 11, 2024
Blogs

Report Shines Spotlight on Open Source Software Security Challenges

An analysis of more than five million open-source software packages published by Lineaje, a provider of a platform for tracking open-source software components, finds 95% of security issues involve some type of open-source software package dependency, with more than half (51%) of the vulnerabilities discovered having no known existing fix available.

Mike Vizard · Dec 10, 2024
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 · Dec 9, 2024
Blogs

Linux Foundation Report Spotlights Open Source Software Package Challenges

The Linux Foundation in collaboration with multiple providers of software composition analysis (SCA) published a study this week, that in addition to identifying the most widely used software packages, also shined a light on fundamental challenges the open source community needs to address.

Mike Vizard · Dec 6, 2024
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

The five great opportunities shared this week include DevOps engineer roles at Palo Alto Networks and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Mike Vizard · Dec 2, 2024
AI

AWS Extends Generative AI Reach to Third-Party IT Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has extended the reach of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform for application development to include a set of plug-in extensions, that make it possible to launch natural language queries against data residing in platforms from Datadog and Wiz.

Mike Vizard · Nov 26, 2024
AWS Partner Articles

AWS Extends Reach of Authentication Service to Include Support for Passkeys

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its authentication service to make it simpler for software engineering teams to eliminate passwords. In addition to now adding support of passkey authentication based on public key cryptography and biometrics to the Amazon Cognito service, the Amazon Cognito service already supports one-time-passwords over email and SMS connection. Passkey support […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 26, 2024
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

The five DevOps job postings shared this week include various roles at GovCIO, Mayo Clinic, Wiz, BMC and Citi.

Mike Vizard · Nov 25, 2024
Blogs

Checkmarx Extends DevSecOps Reach to Repository Security and Secrets Discovery

Checkmarx this week extended the scope of its ability to protect software supply chains with tools that access how secure a repository is and find where application secrets have been shared in a way that is not secure. Ori Bendet, vice president of product management for Checkmarx, said the Repository Health and Secrets Detection tools […]

Mike Vizard · Nov 21, 2024
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 · Nov 18, 2024
Blogs

Splunk Tightens Integration Across Observability Platforms

Splunk this week made a bevy of updates to its observability platforms including the addition of a revamped user interface that provides a more consistent experience across Splunk Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics.

Mike Vizard · Nov 15, 2024
Blogs

Analysis Finds DevOps Engineers Are Being Promoted Faster

An analysis of a data set collected by SignalFire, a platform provider for recruiting employees, finds that IT professionals specializing in areas such as DevOps move into leadership roles within their organizations within two to three years.

Mike Vizard · Nov 13, 2024