Mike Vizard

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption One of the more frustrating aspects of application development and deployment is all the dependencies that exist between the various components of any given set of applications. No sooner is an application developed than an IT organization suddenly discovers that one of the key components has […]

Cloud Contracts: Six Items CIOs Need to Know Before Signing Most IT organizations spend a fair amount of time trying to figure out the actual cost differential between delivering IT services via a public cloud versus on premise. There’s no doubt that virtual machines running in a public cloud are going to be less expensive, […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions An increasing number of end users do not have much patience for IT when it comes to integrating their data. As a result, many of these users are taking it upon themselves to find self-service data integration services in the cloud that allow them to merge data […]

Cognitive Clouds: Gaining a Competitive Advantage As part of an effort to extend the reach of the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform, SAP this week announced it has delivered an SAP HANA Vora query engine that can be inserted into the Apache Spark clusters running in memory. SAP also revealed that it is making additional […]

Improve Internet Performance by Diversifying Your Cloud Portfolio When it comes to all things cloud, VMware has a vision that generally aligns with the way most internal IT organizations see the cloud computing world: The cloud is an extension of IT environments that will continue to run on premise for a very long time. At […]

Five Ways Mobile and Cloud are Helping Build Better Bonds with Customers As part of an effort to extend the integration reach of its cloud application portfolio via JavaScript, Salesforce today announced that Salesforce Service Cloud now supports the Salesforce Lightning component application development framework. At the same time, Salesforce introduced Service Wave Analytics, an […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions In a development that has broad implications for storage systems across the enterprise, Seagate today unveiled a series of 8TB hard disk drives (HDDs). While HDDs are clearly being supplanted by solid-state disk (SSD) drives in high-performance applications, the bulk of the data being stored in and […]

Uncovering the Truth about Six Big Data Security Analytics Myths With each passing day, managing virtual machines becomes more complex. Not only are there more of them than ever, but virtual machines also tend to grow in size over time and get moved around the data center. Not surprisingly, all of this creates a lot […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions As interest in Docker containers continues to soar, IT operations teams will soon be looking for ways to make containers and virtual machines interact with the same sets of data as smoothly as possible. After all, even though containers may be the cool new technology being deployed […]

Five CRM Initiatives that Can Help You Build Better Customer Relations As a provider of e-commerce software, Grid Dynamics has been at the forefront of building omni-channel platforms that make it simpler for organizations to coordinate the selling of goods and services via multiple Web and mobile computing applications and services. Now Grid Dynamics is […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption A few years ago, an open source project called Mesos created simpler cluster management software that eventually became an Apache Foundation project. Relied on extensively by companies such as Airbnb, Netflix and Twitter at true Web scale, Mesos later gave rise to Mesosphere, a provider of […]

Cloud Contracts: Six Items CIOs Need to Know Before Signing One of the biggest challenges in all of enterprise IT is standing up a private cloud. There are so many pieces and parts among the complexities associated with building a private cloud that the average IT organization quickly becomes overwhelmed by both building the cloud […]