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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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Embracing the MCP Suck: Taming the Wild West of AI Protocols

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is moving faster than the developer community can keep up with, racing past its original design parameters and leaving teams scrambling to build clients that can match its pace. The result is an ecosystem where the protocol itself keeps shifting under everyone’s feet, and where the tooling, conventions and security […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 27, 2026
Blogs

Ten 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 · Apr 27, 2026
Blogs

SUSE Extends AI Agent Reach via MCP Server Integration

SUSE collaborates with AWS, n8n, and others to enable AI agents to manage IT infrastructure via Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations in Rancher Prime and SUSE Multi-Linux Manager.

Mike Vizard · Apr 22, 2026
Blogs

Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI

Grafana Labs debuts Grafana 13, a specialized AI application observability platform, and an MCP-powered AI agent at GrafanaCON 2026 to streamline telemetry across complex cloud-native environments.

Mike Vizard · Apr 21, 2026
Blogs

Coralogix Taps Skyflow to Anonymize Log Data Using Tokens

Coralogix and Skyflow have allied to protect sensitive log data that DevOps teams might inadvertently expose while investigating incidents or as data is shared with downstream applications. Skyflow has developed a platform that instead of eliminating or masking sensitive data applies tokens to enable that data to be searchable and auditable while preserving privacy. Coralogix […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 20, 2026
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Ten 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 · Apr 20, 2026
Blogs

Leapwork Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Deterministic Test Automation Platform

Leapwork this week revealed it is infusing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into its test automation platforms to enable continuous validation across application testing workflows. Company CTO Rohit Raghuvansi said that as the pace of application development accelerates in the age of AI, it’s become apparent that test validation has become an even bigger software […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 17, 2026
Video Interviews

The Open Source Trap: Why Trust Isn’t a Security Strategy

The XZ Utils backdoor was a wake-up call, but the underlying problem it exposed has not gone away. Sophisticated adversaries are playing the long game, spending months or years earning trust within open source projects before introducing malicious code into libraries that sit at the foundation of modern software infrastructure. Mike Vizard and Josh Bressers, […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 17, 2026
AI

Broadcom Adds AI Agent Runtime to Tanzu PaaS Environment

Broadcom today revealed it has added a runtime to its Tanzu platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that makes it possible to securely build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Based on the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS environment being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Tanzu PaaS is optimized to be […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 15, 2026
Blogs

Ten 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.

Mike Vizard · Apr 13, 2026
Blogs

Dynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Process and Route Telemetry Data

Dynatrace this week revealed it has agreed to acquire Bindplane, a provider of a platform for pre-processing and routing telemetry data. Bob Wambach, vice president of market and customer insights for Dynatrace, said the addition of the Bindplane platform will further accelerate a rapid expansion of the log management capability that Dynatrace already provides. However, instead […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 10, 2026
AI

CloudBees Delivers on AI Promise to Improve Application Testing

CloudBees has made generally available an add-on for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine which tests should be run first based on the likelihood there will be a failure. Shawn Ahmed, chief product officer at CloudBees, said CloudBees Smart Tests eliminates the need to run an entire testbed. Instead, […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 10, 2026
AI

Appknox Adds AI Tool to Detect and Fix Vulnerabilities in Mobile Applications

Appknox today added an ability to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to assess vulnerabilities in the binaries used to construct a mobile application and recommend a fix that can be passed on to an AI coding tool to implement. Company CEO Harshit Agarwal said KnoxIQ provides an AI copilot to more accurately assess how exploitable a […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 9, 2026
AI

Zencoder Adds OpenClaw Alternative to AI Coding Portfolio

Zencoder today extended its artificial intelligence (AI) agent platform for generating code to include an offering that enables application developers to automate a range of tasks that go well beyond writing code. Company CEO Andrew Filev said Zenflow Work takes advantage of the core orchestration platform that Zencoder created to automate planning, reporting and communication […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 9, 2026
Blogs

Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Investments in Observability

A survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds well over a third (36%) plan on spending more than $1 million on observability in 2026, with 7% planning to spend in excess of $5 million. Mitch Ashley, vice president and practice lead for software lifecycle engineering at the Futurum Group, said […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 7, 2026
AI

Apica Extends Scope and Reach of Platform for Managing Telemetry Data

Apica today updated its Ascent platform to add support for synthetic data that is increasingly being used by artificial intelligence (AI) agents to observe application environments. Version 2.16 of the platform adds support for a set of real user monitoring (RUM) and service level objective (SLO) dashboards, an ability to correlate changes made to any […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 7, 2026
Blogs

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

Explore this week’s top DevOps and Platform Engineering roles. From $300k Cloud Engineering in Maryland to cutting-edge Agentic AI positions at T-Mobile.

Mike Vizard · Apr 6, 2026
Blogs

Latest Typosquatting Attack Targeting VS Code Tools Hits Windsurf IDE

Cybersecurity researchers from Bitdefender, a provider of an endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform, have discovered an extension to the Windsurf integrated development environment (IDE) that steals credentials and data after code is downloaded from the Solana blockchain platform. Silviu Stahie, a security analyst for Bitdefender, said the extension makes use of typosquatting tactics to […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 3, 2026
AI

AWS Makes Pair of AI Agents to Automate DevOps Tasks Available

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to manage DevOps workflows and conduct penetration tests generally available. Neha Goswami, director of Agentic DevOps at AWS, said AWS DevOps Agent provides software engineering teams with an always-available assistant that can automatically optimize application reliability and performance in addition to automating […]

Mike Vizard · Mar 31, 2026