Mike Vizard

Uncovering the Truth about Six Big Data Security Analytics Myths At the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 conference this week, Cloudera announced that it has begun beta testing a columnar data store, dubbed Kudu, that will run natively on top of Hadoop, while providing access to a public beta of a roles-based access control mechanism […]

Seven Ways SaaS Providers Should Improve Their Service Looking to extend the reach of the IBM Bluemix cloud service into the on-premise environment, IBM today unveiled an instance of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that is deployed in a local data center but managed remotely by IBM. Damion Heredia, director of IBM MobileFirst Software, says Bluemix […]

Context-Aware Apps: How to Super Charge Your Customer Engagement Moving to take IT automation well beyond the realm of IT infrastructure, Puppet Labs today unveiled Puppet Application Orchestration software that promises to simplify the deployment and management of distributed applications. Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies says IT organizations are looking for more efficient, repeatable ways […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization As is often the case when it comes to deploying emerging technologies in enterprise IT environments, the level of security available to make sure those technologies don’t wind up creating new pathways for malware can be a showstopper. Nowhere has that been more apparent than in the security […]

Flawed Integration Can Destroy Data Quality and Reliability In the journey to embrace Hadoop as the centerpiece of a modern data warehouse platform, a funny thing happened along the way: IT organizations discovered that they are interested in the Apache Spark framework for processing Big Data analytics in real time. To help make that transition […]

Flawed Integration Can Destroy Data Quality and Reliability In a development that could have major implications for how document databases are deployed across the enterprise, MapR Technologies announced at the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 conference that its distribution of Hadoop can now natively support JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) using MapR-DB, the SQL engine that […]

Best Practices for Choosing a Business Intelligence Dashboard The last two years have witnessed a significant proliferation in the number of SQL engines that can be layered in on top of Hadoop. Now Pivotal, a unit of EMC, is moving to try to consolidate all those engines by making the Pivotal Hawq software available as […]

How to Prepare for the Ever-Changing Evolution of Malware The open source community generally hasn’t produced many security analysis tools. For the most part, the tools required to do malware research are available only under a commercial license from security vendors that sell security software and hardware. Looking to increase the number of open source […]

7 Predictions on How NFV and SDN Will Mature With the express goal of eliminating the need for installing and managing routers in branch offices, Riverbed is investing in a next-generation software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) software, codenamed Project Tiger, that will enable its RiOS operating system running on x86 servers to provide native routing […]

Best Practices for Choosing a Business Intelligence Dashboard One of the thornier challenges with creating any Big Data application is the amount of manual effort that must go into cataloging the data. As a result, organizations often hire expensive data scientists only to have them spend months simply tagging data. To accelerate the process, Tamr […]

Improve Internet Performance by Diversifying Your Cloud Portfolio As a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that has been widely used to manage VMware environments, RightScale has provided a mechanism through which IT organizations could more easily manage virtual machines that tend to be highly distributed across multiple data centers. Starting today, RightScale is now […]

Beware the Hidden Dangers of the Internet of Things Looking to give IT organizations more control over the level of priority at which certain traffic flows over a wireless network, Verizon this week added a Private Network Traffic Management solution to its wireless networking portfolio. It will be used primarily within the context of Internet […]