Mike Vizard

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 At the SAP TechEd Barcelona conference today, SAP moved to make it simpler to develop mobile and cloud applications using the SAP Fiori framework it created for developing HTML5 applications. Senthil Krishnapillai, head of mobile security technologies for SAP, says by invoking SAP Fiori, cloud edition, and SAP […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 With the release of the next major update of the open source Kubernetes orchestration framework for managing containers such as Docker, IT organizations should get some much needed granular control over networking and storage resources. At the KubeCon 2015 conference today, Datawise.io, which is building management tools for […]

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs Looking to more closely tie its incident response system to IT events, PagerDuty has acquired Event Enrichment HQ. At its core, Event Enrichment HQ provides an Event Enrichment Platform (EEP), a common event format through which all the data collected by various IT monitoring tools can […]

Six Warning Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Software With IT racing to connect everything from low-level hardware to entire IT solutions using an application programming interface (API), many are discovering just how time consuming it is to create those APIs. To help simplify that process, CloudRAIL today released a free set of tools that enables IT […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Thanks to the rise of application programming interfaces (APIs), an API economy that is projected to be worth trillions of dollars is rapidly growing. Moving to accelerate that process, IBM today announced that it is making available API management software that can be deployed on premise or in […]

Data Privacy: 5 Lessons Learned from Safe Harbor’s Demise Moving to expand the scope and reach of its software-defined approach to storage, IBM today unveiled a series of updates to the IBM Spectrum Storage portfolio that make it simpler for IT organizations to encrypt data regardless of where it is stored in addition to being […]

Exposing the Truth About OpenStack Cloud Deployments Looking to make sure that the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment remains relevant regardless of the types of applications deployed on it, Pivotal, a unit of EMC, announced this week that everything from Docker images and Microsoft.Net applications to the open source stack of software developed by Netflix […]

At the European Chef Community Summit today, Chef Software unveiled a Chef Compliance application designed to make it simpler to track changes and updates to IT infrastructure from a compliance perspective. Based on technology that Chef gained via the acquisition of VulcanoSec, Justin Arbuckle, chief enterprise architect for Chef Software, says Chef is making use […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 When it comes to managing IT these days, the way Web-scale companies such as Google go about it is vastly different from traditional enterprise IT organizations. The former organizations have essentially used their internal engineering prowess to deconstruct IT in a way that made it much easier for […]

5 Ways to Keep Mission-Critical Data Safe in the Cloud Moving to gain access to a platform through which IT organizations can manage heterogeneous environments in the age of the cloud, IBM today announced it has acquired Gravitant. Richard Patterson, general manager for infrastructure services for IBM Global Technology Services, says IBM will make Gravitant […]

Ten Notable Google Project Management Apps While the average person can type somewhere between 30 to 50 words per minute, most people speak many more words per minute. Looking to make it a whole lot simpler to capture all those thoughts, Google has been refining machine learning algorithms to provide a speech-to-text capability inside Google […]

The 5 Biggest Impacts of the Low-Code App Revolution PHP applications are not only getting faster, they are also about to get a lot easier to build. Zend Technologies, which is now a unit of Rogue Wave Software, has released technology preview version 8.5 of Zen Server, which is based on a much faster PHP […]