Mike Vizard

Why C-Level Execs Should Care More About IT Security Making a case that current approaches to IT security have proven largely ineffective, Unisys today launched a software-only version of its Stealth security solution based on a micro segmentation architecture. Thanks to the broad availability of IPsec, Tom Patterson, vice president and general manager for global […]

5 Recommendations to Secure the Internet of Things When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), security is obviously a major concern. Nowhere is that concern more visibly apparent than in the so-called connected car. After all, millions of people drive cars all around the world every day, so if connected cars can’t be […]

Best Practices for Choosing a Business Intelligence Dashboard As part of an effort to make it easier for “citizen data scientists” to analyze massive amounts of data without any intervention from the internal IT organization, OpenText has launched an OpenText Big Data Analytics cloud service. Based on technology that OpenText gained when it earlier this […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Once end users start correlating data between different data sources, it’s usually not too long before they leave the inherent limitations of the spreadsheet model behind. Looking to accelerate the migration to more advanced analytics tools, Alteryx has released an upgrade to its analytics software that sports […]

How to Keep Your Cloud Technologies Secure For many IT organizations, the distinction between cloud services and managed hosting services is already blurry. Both are making use of outsourced infrastructure that have different pricing models attached to them in terms of how they are invoked. This week, SingleHop, a provider of both cloud services and […]

Beware the Data Collectors for They Are Us: Privacy and Big Data Moving to make it a lot simpler to incorporate anything that exposes an application programming interface (API) within a larger business process, Built.io today announced the general availability of a workflow integration service that runs in the cloud. Built.io CTO Nishant Patel says […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know In a development that turns object storage into a natural extension of existing file systems, Caringo today unveiled Firefly for Swarm. Tony Barbagallo, vice president of product for Caringo, says that FireFly for Swarm was designed to be compatible with Windows and NetApp file servers. Using […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Capacity planning can be a vexing issue for most IT organizations because getting it wrong has an adverse effect on application performance that just about everybody in the organization notices. The challenge, however, is that in order to make use of capacity planning software, IT organizations have […]

Uncovering the Truth about Six Big Data Security Analytics Myths Fresh off of making a strategic commitment to enabling organizations to more easily become digital enterprises, BMC Software today unveiled a raft of product and services at the BMC Engage 2015 conference. BMC executive vice president Paul Appleby says that, in general, IT organizations are […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats While Verizon Enterprise Solutions is considered one of the most authoritative sources when it comes to information concerning security breaches, turning all that data into something that represents actionable intelligence has been another matter altogether. To solve that particular issue, Verizon has partnered with Splunk to create […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats In a development that could provide a lot of relief to IT organizations pressed by IT security challenges, Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled an appliance through which it will apply analytics delivered via the cloud to simplify IT security along with an update to its Fortify application scanning […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions For the most part, hybrid storage arrays are based on the same legacy approach to managing I/O that was applied to hard disk drives (HDDs) before solid-state drives (SSDs) came along. As a result, most hybrid storage arrays are not as fast as they could be if […]