Mike Vizard

The 5 Biggest Impacts of the Low-Code App Revolution While application programming interfaces (APIs) have clearly become pervasive, there’s nothing all that simple about creating them. To help with the process, a number of modeling languages and tools have emerged. The trouble is that there has been something of a religious war going on over […]

5 VM Routing Mistakes Made in Private Clouds This week at the OpenStack Summit 2015 Tokyo conference, Hewlett-Packard moved to make it a lot simpler to deploy OpenStack with the release of HP Helion OpenStack 2.0. Jay Jamison, vice president of product marketing for HP Helion, says with this release, HP is adding support for […]

Defining Deep Data: What It Is and How to Use It At the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) Summit 2015 conference today, Microsoft announced that a community technology preview (CTP) edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is now available. New features in the next major upgrade of Microsoft SQL Server include the ability to […]

How to Promote a Strong Cybersecurity Culture Year-Round At the Oracle Open World 2015 conference this week, Oracle revealed what it describes as a major breakthrough in IT security that prevents attacks from being launched at the processor level. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says the latest generation of SPARC M7 processors now assigns numbers to […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 At the Oracle OpenWorld 2015 conference this week, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in collaboration with Oracle, launched eight Internet of Things (IoT) services that it will manage on behalf of its customers. Soumya Chatterjee, global solutions head for enterprise solutions at TCS, says the goal is to leverage […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network With interest in the open source Apache Spark framework for running Big Data applications in real time growing rapidly, IBM this week made it clear that the Apache Spark framework is now a foundational element of its overall strategy. At the IBM Insight 2015 conference […]

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs At the OpenStack Summit Tokyo conference today, Midokura announced that it has integrated its network virtualization software for OpenStack environments with the Kuryr project that enables Docker containers to be networked together. In addition, Midokura announced that its Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) software now supports the […]

5 Lessons to Brush Up Your Cloud Security Knowledge At the Oracle Open World 2015 conference this week, Oracle fleshed out a comprehensive approach to the cloud that spans everything from new applications being unfurled in the cloud to updates to the IT infrastructure that those applications run on. At the highest level of the […]

Exposing the Truth About OpenStack Cloud Deployments When it comes to making the move to object storage these days, IT organizations are in a bit of a quandary. In theory at least, most of them would prefer to make use of industry standards such as OpenStack to access object storage systems in a private cloud. […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Canonical today moved to make it simpler to deploy both its Ubuntu distribution of Linux as well as OpenStack on top of containers running at the machine level. Version 15.10 of Ubuntu Server, codenamed Wily Werewolf, is one of the first distributions of Linux to support the latest […]

The Evolution of Business Software: Focus on the Consumer At the SAP Tech Ed Live 2015 conference this week, SAP formally unveiled its SAP Digital Boardroom application built on top of the SAP Cloud for Analytics service that is aimed specifically at members of corporate boards. The company is also moving to integrate its SAP […]

How to Prepare for the Ever-Changing Evolution of Malware In advance of the breakup of Hewlett-Packard that is scheduled to go into effect in a little over a week, Trend Micro revealed today that it has acquired the TippingPoint security business unit from HP. Trend Micro COO Wael Mohamed says the acquisition comes after years […]