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.
Maintaining the integrity of a software supply chain is an issue that has long bedeviled IT organizations. With the rise of microservices based on containers, however, this issue has become more acute ...
Over the last several years GitHub has emerged as one of the primary repositories around which application development now revolves. At its recent GitHub Universe 2017 conference, the company revealed how it ...
After acquiring Automic earlier this year, CA Technologies suddenly found itself with an embarrassment of IT automation riches. Now the company is moving forward by further integrating the Automic IT automation platform ...
At its PuppetConf 2017 conference, Puppet made it clear its ambitions now extend well beyond its namesake IT automation framework for IT infrastructure. On the heels of acquiring Distelli in September, the ...
When it comes to accelerating the development of applications, having a standard set of runtimes can make all the difference. A new study of 753 IT professionals conducted by ClearPath Strategies on ...
Serverless computing frameworks are widely regarded as the next big thing in enterprise IT because they are based on an event-driven architecture that makes servers, storage and networking resources dynamically available as ...
It’s no secret there’s been a lot of contention between application developers, who are under pressure to build applications faster, and database administrators (DBAs), who are charged with providing those developers with ...
There’s a pressing need for a variety of monitoring tools more than ever. But given the proliferation of application programming interfaces (APIs) inside the enterprise, demand for API monitoring tools in particular ...
At its OpenWorld 2017 conference today, Oracle charted a course forward that essentially creates a managed DevOps platform spanning a broad number of application types and styles. The Oracle Application Development Platform ...
When it comes to incident response with an integrated DevOps environment so much depends on the ability of an IT team to respond quickly and consistently to a specific set of events ...
