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.
Cisco today at its Splunk .Conf25 conference previewed a series of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for the Splunk Observability platform that are capable of automating the collection of telemetry data using open ...
JFrog at its annual swampUP conference unfurled a DevOps platform, dubbed JFrog Fly, designed to enable application developers to more easily integrate artificial intelligence (AI) agents within workflows at scale. Via the ...
A ControlMonkey survey of 300 IT leaders finds most organizations are unprepared to scale AI workloads, citing automation gaps, reliability, skills shortages, and cost challenges. Modernizing infrastructure management with IaC is critical ...
Empromptu has launched its AI coding platform for building enterprise-class applications, featuring RAG, LLMOps, explainability, and SOC-2 compliance. Designed for scalability, accuracy, and predictable pricing, it aims to outperform vibecoding tools and ...
Perforce has added AI to its Delphix platform, enabling DevOps teams to use small language models (SLMs) for secure synthetic data testing—even in air-gapped, regulated environments. The update automates data masking, supports ...
A report published this week by Sonar finds the GPT-5 platform released by OpenAI has the potential to generate better code but at significantly higher costs. Based on over 4,400 Java tasks, ...
Kong acquires OpenMeter to add usage-based API metering and billing to Kong Konnect—critical for managing AI, LLM, and cloud service costs securely ...
Software development has never been tidy, but the current landscape feels more chaotic than ever. Shannon Mason, chief strategy officer for Tempo, dives into why software engineering workflows remain chaotic and what ...