Mike Vizard

New York

Chief Content Officer at Tech Strong Group

Chief Content Officer at Security Boulevard

Chief Content Officer for Techstrong Group, publisher of https://t.co/799DaDAYmu, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, https://t.co/2XFXIJyVJ3 and co-host for Techstrong Gang

Articles

AI Leadership Insights: AI Development With or Without In-House Experts

5 days ago | techstrong.ai | Mike Vizard

Synopsis: The Lightning AI Platform consists of Lightning AI Studios and the Lightning AI Hub and is designed for a wide range of businesses with or without dedicated AI specialists in-house. In this interview, Mike Vizard speaks with Ethan Harris, staff research engineer at Lightning AI, about the growing landscape of AI hubs and marketplaces.
AI Leadership Insights: Advancing Social Media Comment Intelligence

6 days ago | techstrong.ai | Mike Vizard

Synopsis: Respondology, the pioneering leader in social media comment moderation and intelligence and creator of the industry’s first Comment Activation Platform, announced the successful closure of its $5 million Series A-1 funding round. This internal round builds on the $11 million Series A funding secured in 2023 from the same investor group, highlighting investor confidence in the company’s vision.
Grafana Labs Makes Bevy of Updates to Visualization Platform

6 days ago | devops.com | Mike Vizard

Grafana Labs, this week at the GrafanaCON 2025 conference, revealed it is revamping its open source visualization platform to provide a more consistent set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and a JSON data schema to streamline integrations. In addition, Grafana Labs is embedding a large language model (LLM) that promises to make it simpler to create dashboards and interrogate data using a chat interface that is available in a private preview.
Weathering the storm: Partners stay positive

1 week ago | smartermsp.com | Mike Vizard

In the face of growing uncertainty, a survey of 705 technology partners in North America and Western Europe finds more than three-quarters (87 percent) expect to grow revenues in 2025, with a subset of that group (18 percent) expecting more than 20 percent growth. Only 2 percent of respondents said they expected revenues to decline. Conducted by The Futurum Group, the survey also surfaces how dependent many partners are now on cloud-based solutions.
Sumo Logic Previews AI Tool to Analyze Telemetry Data

1 week ago | devops.com | Mike Vizard

Sumo Logic has created a prototype of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that creates text-based summaries from large volumes of log and telemetry data collected by its log analytics platform. Additionally, Sumo Logic is now also making it possible to deploy detection rules as code, which makes it simpler to incorporate into a DevSecOps workflow.
AI Leadership Insights: AI Deepfakes

1 week ago | techstrong.ai | Mike Vizard

Synopsis: In this Techstrong AI video interview, Ofer Friedman, chief business development officer for AU10TIX, explains why deepfakes created using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are becoming more difficult to detect now that professional criminals are building them. In this Techstrong AI interview, AU10TIX chief business development officer Ofer Friedman speaks with Mike Vizard about the alarming rise of deepfake technology infiltrating the job market and corporate environments.
Nutanix Adds Additional NVIDIA Frameworks to AI Infrastructure Platform

1 week ago | techstrong.ai | Mike Vizard

Nutanix today extended its reach into the realm of IT infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) applications by adding support for the NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIM) and NVIDIA NeMo frameworks. Announced at the .NEXT conference hosted by Nutanix, the frameworks make it simpler to deploy AI inference engines and customize large language models (LLMs), respectively.
Nutanix Previews Storage Platform Running Natively on Kubernetes Clusters

1 week ago | cloudnativenow.com | Mike Vizard

Nutanix today at its .Next conference made available under an early access program a storage platform that runs natively on a Kubernetes cluster. Previously known as Project Beacon, the company’s Cloud Native AOS platform leverages Kubernetes application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide access to a range of data services, including disaster recovery capabilities that can now span multiple availability zones, multiple clouds and on-premises IT environments.
Artificial Intelligence Unleashed

1 week ago | techstrong.ai | Mike Vizard

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an emerging trend; it’s a global force rapidly reshaping everything from the cloud to the car. AI technologies collectively represent one of the most profound societal changes ever seen. In fact, research conducted by The Futurum Group projects that the rise of AI agents alone is expected to drive up to $6 trillion in economic value by 2028, with 89% of CIOs now identifying agentic AI as a strategic priority.
AI Leadership Insights: Challenges of Building and Deploying AI Agents

1 week ago | techstrong.ai | Mike Vizard

Synopsis: Jim Richberg, head of cyber policy and global field CISO for Fortinet, dives into the challenges organizations will encounter as they build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents. In this Techstrong AI interview, Fortinet’s Global Field CISO Jim Richberg discusses the evolving AI landscape, highlighting the distinction between predictive (discriminative) and generative AI.