Mike Vizard

8 Web App Security Best Practices to Fight Off Bot Intrusions Looking to address what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes as the most pressing issue of our time, Microsoft this week launched a flurry of security offerings intended to turn security into a set of continuously delivered services. Speaking at a Microsoft Government Cloud Forum, […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence The popular conception at the moment is that in order to take advantage of Big Data, an organization has to recruit data scientists, who are hard to retain. But Salesforce, with the launch of updates to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud at a Salesforce World Tour event, is making the […]

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs With Docker containers now set to explode across the enterprise, IT organizations will soon find themselves scrambling to find ways to manage and secure them. At the DockerCon Europe 2015 conference this week, Docker moved to address both issues. Via the launch today of version 1.0 […]

7 Characteristics of a Data-Driven Organization Most IT organizations today have a plethora of IT management tools at their disposal that wind up creating their own silos of data that ultimately need to be managed. With the rise of Big Data, however, the time has come to eliminate all those silos of data using a […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 For all the potential afforded by the rise of Docker containers, IT organizations still need a simple way to turn new and existing applications into a file that will run on top of a Docker container. With that goal in mind, Bitnami today at the DockerCon Europe 2015 […]

5 Lessons to Brush Up Your Cloud Security Knowledge Taking a significant step toward making it simpler to deploy multiple types of application environments on top of a common set of IT infrastructure, VMware at the DockerCon Europe 2015 conference today fulfilled a pledge to open source a Photon Controller project through which organizations can […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Looking accelerate the adoption of Flash memory for primary storage in the data center, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) this week unveiled a series of hybrid and all-Flash arrays along with an analytics application designed to help IT organizations figure out where best to apply Flash storage. Hitachi Data […]

7 Characteristics of a Data-Driven Organization Now that organizations are starting to realize that the value of a digital business is essentially defined by the sum total of the number of interconnections between applications, the number of things that users want to connect together across the enterprise is growing exponentially. To make it easier to […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Dell today refreshed its line of 1u servers with an eye toward making it simpler for small organizations to preserve investments in servers as they shift from relatively simple tower servers to investing in a rack. Based on the latest Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 processors, Dell has added […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions After years of effort, SAP is starting to show some early gains in terms of getting customers to run SAP software on top of the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform. At the SAP TechEd Barcelona conference today, SAP released an update to SAP Business Suite 4 SAP […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know EMC today unveiled an approach to software-defined storage (SDS) that spans everything from remote offices to “data lakes” residing in the data center. Ed Beauvais, head of product marketing for Isilon in the Emerging Technologies Division of EMC, says that EMC is trying to extend the […]

5 Ways to Avoid Video Challenges with Specialty Storage In a development that should have a significant impact on how primary storage is addressed by enterprise applications, Micron Technology today announced that memory that makes use of DDR4 packaging to provide access to 8GB of persistent Flash storage is now available in production quantities. Ryan […]