Mike Vizard

Five Tips for Choosing the Best Cloud Provider Less than a day after becoming a party to the biggest merger in the history of enterprise IT, VMware today is back at it, making a push to dominate the future of IT management in the era of the cloud. At the VMworld 2015 Europe conference today, […]

Flawed Integration Can Destroy Data Quality and Reliability For all the hype surrounding the emergence of the digital business, most business-to-business (B2B) transactions conducted today still revolve around electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. The challenge with EDI is that each transaction is cumbersome to set up and expensive to manage on an ongoing basis. To […]

Flawed Integration Can Destroy Data Quality and Reliability When it comes to Big Data applications, a triumvirate of open source technologies has emerged as the most dominant platforms being used. The first is obviously Hadoop, followed closely by Apache Spark in-memory computing clusters and Apache Kafka, a real-time messaging platform. After already adding support for […]

Present and Future Applications of the Internet of Things IT over the years has been credited with automating any number of business processes, but it may very well be that the world “ain’t seen nothing yet.” Dell today unveiled its robotic process automation offering that promises to automate much of the drudgery associated with the […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network In a move that signals a resurgent push in the high end of the server market, IBM today unveiled three Power Systems LC servers that it says cost half as much as a comparable x86 server while providing twice the level of performance. While IBM […]

Flawed Integration Can Destroy Data Quality and Reliability In a move that enhances the analytic horsepower that users of Microsoft applications can access, Microsoft and Alteryx today announced they have formed a strategic partnership. Under terms of the deal, users of Microsoft PowerBI applications can now invoke Alteryx analytics applications directly from within the Microsoft […]

Improve Internet Performance by Diversifying Your Cloud Portfolio As part of a concerted effort to increase the number of workloads managed in the cloud, Accenture this week added a suite of cloud migration and management tools to the Accenture Cloud Platform. Chris Wegmann, managing director for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) practice at Accenture, says […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions Recognizing that the laws of data gravity are in fact immutable, Teradata today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will become the first public cloud on which it will host its database. Chris Twogood, vice president of product and services marketing at Teradata, says that with massive […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions Machine learning has the potential to transform the way IT is managed by applying automation at an unprecedented level of scale, so it was only a matter of time before an IT management application based on machine learning became available as a service. Avik Partners today unveiled […]

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs At a Couchbase Live New York event today, Couchbase announced the general availability of an upgrade to its document database that delivers on a promise to add SQL support and the ability to scale applications. Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold says the addition of support for an […]

The 5 Mobile Apps You Really Need for SMB Success Moving to extend the reach of is rapid application development (RAD) environment into the realm of mobile computing, Mendix has released an upgrade to its platform that makes it possible to build mobile applications that can run online and off using an open application programming […]

How to Future-Proof Your Data Lake: Six Critical Considerations Recognizing that organizations will need to blend multiple types of data within the same analytics application, Pentaho, a unit of Hitachi, is gearing up to release an upgrade to its server platform that gives users more control over the overall data pipeline that is being fed […]