Mike Vizard

RE: DBAs Need to Evolve into Data Scientists

Doron Levari — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:04 GMT

Disclaimer: I work for ScaleBase.

I agree that scale challenges are enormous and self-implementation of sharding is very difficult and not recommended for the non-expert hands.

However Solutions do exist to enable out-of-the-box automatic transparent sharding++. This way anyone can benefit from the advantages of sharding while avoiding self-implementation hell, and enjoy good old MySQL databases, leverage existing skills, management, etc.

ScaleBase is a leading solution for transparent sharding. Try it out!

RE: Making Business Analytics Truly Available as a Service

User2021502 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:48:59 GMT

There is no substitute for human expertise, no matter the context. That's because machines cannot get emotionally involved. Of course some businesses are not even possible without today's technology, like affiliate marketing and other similar ones. Anyway, given the increasing interest of business in analytics, I think that making it more accessible is great.

RE: No Place for Sloppy Developers to Hide on the Web

User2027069 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:59:03 GMT

Well, you always have to take risks when choosing a business partners. There are businesses where having partners is part of the job. Take a cpa network for example. Anyway, no one needs sloppy developers, so identifying the problem and getting rid of unnecessarily issues is definitely a good thing.

RE: Social Media Goes Corporate

Body Care — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:35:54 GMT

We have our social media stragety in place with facebook and twitter at the moment and soon to be Google+. It is a important way of marketing online and geat way of gettign feedback from your own users. Being active in social bookmarking is also something we are looking at.

RE: Enterprise Social Networking: Talk Is Still Cheap

David Wachter — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:10 GMT

Enterprise social networking solutions like Moxie assume a majority of employees are proactive knowledge creators. And when provided with a "Facebook for the enterprise" solution they'll regularly provide status updates, comments about what they're working on, and other helpful pieces of information.

The problem, however, is that the majority of employees don't want and won't do this even if provided with a great new social solution. Most employees are reactive knowledge consumers that want easy and quick access to expertise to get their question answered and work done.

However, when combined with a knowledge-building solution, enterprise social networking can facilitate expertise identification and provide a powerful communication channel for the exchange of information. This combination would better meet the needs of a majority of employees and help drive an ROI for social solution investment.

David Wachter

CMO @Hivemine

RE: A Smarter Way to Archive

Eder — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:59:33 GMT

Really the promise of a filing system can be dedicated to a great alternative, because according to the IBM Smart Archive is a comprehensive, unified, integrated, information-aware archiving

RE: Enterprise Social Networking: Talk Is Still Cheap

randomnews — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:54:03 GMT

Even if you are not directly engaging your customers you gain a lot by being socially active both because it’s an effective means of communication and because your customers and potential clients see you as being current.

RE: Enterprise Social Networking: Talk Is Still Cheap

milkmen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:07:46 GMT

It seems that most of the momentum in social media is driven by hype or by fear of being behind the 8 ball. Calculating the ROI for social is challenging to say the least. I suspect that conversion rates are improved with the right social efforts but it is also difficult to measure and prove.

I have found it extremely challenging to organize the social vision and efforts in small to mid-sized organizations. It seems that the challenge grows in parallel to the size of the organization.

I wrote a post about software and tools available to measure micro & micro social conversions at http://www.milkmen.com/blog/small-business-guide-to-social-media-tools-analytics/

I'll have to look into moxie

RE: Enterprise Social Networking: Talk Is Still Cheap

Clive Sanford — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:54:46 GMT

I disagree when Kelly says the only real value" is when employees are able to instantly provide customers with answers to questions". For example on Twitter the best way to interact with potential clients is to go to their search engine and type in queries related to your industry and then answer some of those questions. Build a network for yourself whereby you're adding real value. don't think too much of the instant ROI.

RE: Enterprise Social Networking: Talk Is Still Cheap

PatrickH — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:57:06 GMT

I agree, if social networking is not built into an overall workflow then it can be too interruptive to be truly efficient. There is an argument that some businesses should not even be trying to use social networks.

Will be interesting to see how this sort of thing develops over the next few years.

RE: Tracking Super Bowl Sentiment in Real Time

Erin Everhart — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:43:50 GMT

I love figuring out the sentiment of things on social media. So many people think that just because they're getting talked about on Facebook and Twitter that it's a good thing but a bad social reputation will hurt you more than a good one. For example: Tim Tebow. A lot of people were talking about him late 2011, but surprisingly, a good number of the talk was bad. Over at 352 Media Web Development, we use SocialBro and Social Mention to keep track. Both are fantastic.

RE: Enterprise Social Networking: Talk Is Still Cheap

Joshua Jarvis — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:53:33 GMT

Getting any ROI on Social Networking advertising is tough. Consultants have a distinct advantage because they can engage potential clients socially on these networks and generate a referral type lead vs typical marketing tactics.

RE: Take Long Security Look Before Outsourcing Leap

Oversolve — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:08:12 GMT

I have just found this blog post and found it very useful. I agree with Chad's comment

RE: Eliminating Server Consolidation Performance Issues

Sarah — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:10:20 GMT

This sounds like a great innovation that will help IT managers to better their infrastructures. Consolidating centers with big data for a company means saving money and saving time. Riverbed's Granite system will locate files faster and eliminate business.

Sarah

Mosaic Technology

http://www.mosaictec.com

RE: Project Management Meets CRM in the Cloud

georgia — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:13:41 GMT

Integration of Clarizen's project management software and Salesforce CRM can only lead to more efficiency for businesses. I applaud this step and can't wait till more companies see the advantages of integration.

RE: Conventional VDI Wisdom Proves Wrong

Jake Hughes — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:37:19 GMT

Hi Guys,

You're right, XenApp is applications. However this IS VDI as we have deployed XenDesktop fed applications from XenApp. We are providing Windows 7 virtual desktops to 3,500+ unique users per day and growing as we continue to deploy to the entire enterprise. Let me know if you'd like to get further details.

Thanks,

Jake

RE: Business Logic: The Next Great Security Vulnerability

Raviv Raz — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:08:04 GMT

Hybrid Telepath is a first of its kind security solution to mitigate attacks on web applications' business logic layer. By studying the normal business logic workflows, it determines which users violate the normal patterns of work. You can read more about the technology at:

http://www.hybridsec.com/Technology.html

RE: Zen and the Art of IT Infrastructure

Dan Boucher — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:51:12 GMT

how does one contact Mike Vizard????????????//

RE: Spring Cleaning in the Enterprise

Bill Curtis — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:03:17 GMT

When spring cleaning (refactoring, retreading, etc.) applictions, two important questions involve where the most noxious code hides and what is the tradeoff between the cost and benefit of cleaning it. In order to make realistic estimates about the cost of maintenance, the effort to add new functionality, and the difficulty of combining applications, executives need accurate numbers reflecting the strcutural characteristics and quality of their code base. These numbers can also provide good indications of an application's risk to the business (outages, breaches, etc.). In addition to business value, executives need to balance decisions about their application portfolio with rational estimates of ownership cost and business risk based on the structural health of their applications.

RE: The Coming Convergence of IT Management in the Cloud

Peter Jones — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:14:06 GMT

So true, there is more and more talk about the shift in IT management around the cloud, I think it will come together and become more of a simpler process than it has been in the past. A more all rounded IT management system will work much more effectively.