Mike Vizard

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Looking to extend the number of use cases under its data protection software, Commvault today unveiled a version of the Commvault Data Platform, formerly known as Simpana, that can store a variety of types of data natively that can be accessed via an open application programming interface (API). […]

Expectations vs. Reality: Five Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Awareness At the Dell World 2015 conference today, Dell previewed an advanced persistent threat (APT) protection service that will be delivered through Dell SonicWALL firewalls, while also providing in 2016 the ability to manage Dell switches via the management console it provides IT organizations that deploy those […]

Top Five Ways to Keep Your Data Safe When it comes to backup and recovery, not many IT departments have a firm handle of the amount of data that needs to be backed up. The end result is that the scheduling of various backup processes has to be continually reevaluated. To address that particular issue, […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 Looking to put an end to any lingering concerns about the scalability of its open source database, Oracle today announced the general availability of an update to MySQL that is not only substantially faster, it now supports the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format in a way that […]

Why the Open Source Stars Must Align As part of an effort to advance usage of IT automation frameworks on a much larger scale, Red Hat has acquired Ansible, a provider of an open source IT automation framework. Joe Fitzgerald, vice president of management for Red Hat, says Red Hat will not only continue to […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network At the Teradata 2015 Partners User Group conference today, Teradata outlined its ambitions to become a force in the delivery of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. With the launch of Teradata Aster Analytics for Hadoop, due out in the second quarter of 2016, and Teradata […]

Seven Ways “As a Service” Can Benefit You To give organizations more control over how data within a business intelligence (BI) application delivered as a service is served up to end users, GoodData this week added support for self-service dashboards and the ability to push data out to specific subsets of end users of its […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network When it comes to integration these days, most organizations obsess about two things. First, they want to make it easier to integrate applications and services because integration serves to increase the value of any given app. But they also want to make sure the data […]

How to Better Integrate Cloud Apps by Managing the Integration Lifecycle At the TIBCO Now Tour this week, TIBCO Software announced a lightweight platform for creating, governing and consuming APIs in the cloud and new a cloud service designed to manage the continuous delivery of applications. After acquiring the Mashery API management platform last summer, […]

Cognitive Clouds: Gaining a Competitive Advantage To make it simpler to pull data into the IBM Watson analytics platform, IBM today announced new connectors for its cognitive computing platform and made it easier to secure data moving between on-premise applications and the IBM Watson cloud service using Docker containers. In addition to data sources such […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 As part of an ongoing effort to shift workflow into the cloud, Adobe today announced an alliance with Dropbox under which users will be able to access files stored in the cloud directly from within Adobe Acrobat software. At the same time, Adobe announced that it is making […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network In an effort to make analytics more readily accessible, today SAP unfurled its Big Data analytics application running in the cloud running on top of the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform. Nic Smith, senior director of marketing for analytics at SAP, says rather than requiring […]