Mike Vizard

5 Ways to Keep Mission-Critical Data Safe in the Cloud As compliance regulations become more stringent, interest in archiving tools has steadily increased. The challenge now is that because so many types of data must be archived, the management of the archiving process is starting to spin out of control. Looking to address that specific […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues As a tool for delving into the deepest and sometimes darkest elements of IT logs, the machine learning and search engine technology that Splunk created has been widely adopted. This week at the Splunk 2015 User Conference, the company revealed how it intends to make that technology […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption With the rapid proliferation of applications based on the Node.js variant of the JavaScript programming language, IT operations teams have found that many of their existing management tools suddenly have a blind spot. For the most part, the tools that IT operations teams have in place […]

Uncovering the Truth about Six Big Data Security Analytics Myths Just about everyone has come to realize that defending the enterprise against the hundreds of thousands of types of security attacks being continually launched is beyond the capabilities of mere mortals. As such, IT organizations are increasingly going to have to rely on machine learning […]

Uncovering the Truth about Six Big Data Security Analytics Myths Perhaps the biggest challenge associated with Big Data is not so much collecting it anymore, but rather figuring out what to do with it all. With that in mind, Accenture has enlisted Oblong Industries, a provider of telepresence systems, to make it easier to distribute […]

7 Security Mindsets to Protect Your Vital Business Assets While insider attacks tend to generate a lot of attention, the number of times that an employee actually goes rogue is fairly low compared to all the other types of security attacks launched at enterprises daily. What is more common is for the credentials of an […]

Best Practices for Choosing a Business Intelligence Dashboard One of the fiercer debates roiling IT circles these days concerns the ultimate impact Hadoop will have on how data is managed and consumed across the enterprise. One view holds that Hadoop is a vast data lake that existing data warehouse applications will tap into by moving […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Machine learning software represents a fundamental advancement in terms of the applications that IT can be applied against, but the number of use cases for those applications has been limited to scenarios where the underlying data has been fairly structured. Skytree is moving to expand the use […]

How to Keep Your Cloud Technologies Secure Given the cost and complexity of standing up a private cloud these days, there’s been a marked shift toward more reliance on IT service providers that will absorb the capital costs associated with establishing a modern data center on behalf of multiple customers. As a result, IT vendors […]

7 Security Mindsets to Protect Your Vital Business Assets As an open source relational database, MariaDB has been steadily gaining traction as an alternative to both MySQL and proprietary Oracle and IBM databases. Now the MariaDB Foundation is adding to that pressure by making available a release candidate of a MariaDB 10.1 version of the […]

5 Ways to Avoid Video Challenges with Specialty Storage Storage in the enterprise is often challenged by the contention issues between applications sharing the same physical infrastructure that have to be navigated. While virtualization has certainly improved overall IT infrastructure utilization, it generally requires a storage specialist to make sure that applications are getting access […]

Five CRM Initiatives that Can Help You Build Better Customer Relations To improve the ability to ascertain the relationship between different documents and events within its customer relationship management (CRM) software, Salesforce at the Dreamforce 2015 conference today unveiled SalesforceIQ tools that capture information from email, calendars and other sources of data to generate customer […]