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

IBM Adds Bevy of Capabilities to Data Management Platform

18 hours ago | techstrong.it | Mike Vizard

IBM this week extended the scope of its platform for managing data to add an ability to unify governance, quality, lineage tracking and sharing in addition to simplifying data integration. Edward Calvesbert, vice president for IBM watsonx, said these extensions to the watsonx.data portfolio are specifically designed to enable IT teams to more easily manage massive volumes of unstructured data that is now required to drive, for example, artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Cribl Adds Copilot Capable of Automatically Normalizing Telemetry Data

19 hours ago | techstrong.ai | Mike Vizard

Cribl this week added another generative artificial intelligence (AI) capability at no additional cost that automatically normalizes telemetry data. Nick Heudecker, head of marketing and business development for Cribl, said Copilot Editor has been trained to map schemas and translate logs from one format to another.
Survey shows AI initiatives are boosting opportunities for MSPs

1 day ago | smartermsp.com | Mike Vizard

A global survey of over 850 leaders of artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives conducted by The Futurum Group finds more than a quarter report their organization is wrestling with a skills shortage, with other challenges including legacy system integration (35 percent), IT resource constraints (32 percent), complex AI technology stacks (30 percent) and data quality and governance concerns (27 percent). Those issues, naturally, bode well for managed service providers (MSPs) and consulting firms.
Agentuity Previews Cloud Service Optimized for AI Agents

1 day ago | techstrong.ai | Mike Vizard

Agentuity this week unfurled a cloud service designed specifically to enable application development teams to build and run artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said AI agents are not just another type of workload to be deployed on an existing cloud service.
Logz.io Unveils Observability Platform Designed First for AI Agents

1 day ago | devops.com | Mike Vizard

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Chainguard Adds Support for Multi-Layer Hardened Container Images

2 days ago | cloudnativenow.com | Mike Vizard

Chainguard has added support for multi-layer images to its repository for accessing hardened container images that are free of vulnerabilities. Jason Hall, principal engineer for Chainguard, said that while it has been possible to use multi-layer Docker images for many years now, the declarative apko tool that Chainguard developed to create hardened Chainguard Container images lacked the ability to use layers to package distinct parts of the filesystem as individual archives.
Survey Surfaces Raft of Cloud ROI Justification Challenges

2 days ago | techstrong.it | Mike Vizard

A survey of 350 senior IT leaders in the U.S finds more than three quarters (78%) admit they find it difficult to consistently demonstrate a return on investment (ROI) in cloud computing, with revenue growth (43%), operational efficiency/productivity (36%), and cost savings (35%) being the metric most widely tracked.
Postman Adds AI Agent Mode to Design, Build and Deploy APIs

2 days ago | devops.com | Mike Vizard

Postman today revealed it has developed artificial intelligence (AI) agents for its platform for designing and building application programming interfaces (APIs). Announced at the POST/CON 2025 event, the Agent Mode enables developers to, via a natural language interface, automate entire multi-step workflows spanning the designing, testing, documenting and monitoring of a single API or a logical group of APIs, known as collections.
Survey Surfaces Uneven Adoption of SBOMs to Secure Software

2 days ago | devops.com | Mike Vizard

A survey of 100 security professionals finds nearly half (48%) of security professionals admit their organizations are falling behind on meeting software bill material (SBOM) requirements as specified by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memo M-22-18, Executive Order 14028, and the European Union (EU) Cyber Resilience Act.
Harness Adds MCP Server to Expose Data to Third-Party AI Tools

3 days ago | staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud | Mike Vizard

Harness today revealed it has developed a model context protocol (MCP) server through which it will be able to provide more context to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, agents and platforms that are being used to build software.