Mike Vizard

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization Just about every IT organization these days is struggling with how to become a digital enterprise. There’s no doubt that a raft of digital technology advances makes it possible for organizations to get closer to their customers than ever, but most IT organizations are fairly challenged when it […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know For all the potential the cloud offers in terms of helping organizations protect data, most IT departments are still backing up data locally. While the cloud provides an attractive way to archive data, retrieving data quickly from the cloud can still be problematic. For that reason, […]

Data Loss Prevention: 5 Reasons You Need to Step Up Your Game Given all the interest in enhanced data security, a new reporting service may open some eyes in terms of the level of security being provided by Internet service providers (ISPs). Developed in conjunction with Twitter, the Email Privacy Report tool from Message Systems […]

Beware the Data Collectors for They Are Us: Privacy and Big Data Moving to further integrate Hadoop and Vertica, Hewlett-Packard this week released an update to its SQL columnar database that adds support for data streaming and advanced log file text search to better support high-speed analytics typically associated with Internet of Things applications. HP […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption When deploying Hadoop in a production environment, IT organizations often struggle with building applications that run across a Hadoop cluster. To solve that problem, the developers at LinkedIn created Gradle, a set of workflow tools that make it easier to connect multiple Hadoop jobs within the […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center In a significant step toward one day making network services provided by enterprise IT organizations and carriers more unified, ADTRAN this week outlined a Future Network State blueprint for delivering those services using open application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide programmatic access to software-defined networks (SDNs) running network […]

Moving to the Public Cloud: Six Steps for Success With Microsoft Azure gaining traction in the cloud, many IT organizations are looking for a little help in managing the Microsoft public cloud platform. Rising to meet that demand, SingleHop today extended its managed IT services offering to include support for Microsoft Azure. Jordan Jacobs, vice […]

5 Tips to Retain Your Top IT Talent Time and again, business leaders will acknowledge that the most important resource that drives the success of their business is the people they hire. And yet, when it comes to managing those human resources, most of them have little insight into either the processes those employees directly […]

If Dinosaurs Had Big Data, Would They Be Extinct? As IT organizations begin to routinely collect massive amounts of data, deciding who inside the organization should have access to that information is becoming a thorny issue. Business analysts often want to compare and contrast random sets of data in the hopes of discovering new patterns […]

Defining Deep Data: What It Is and How to Use It Automatic failover of distributed databases has been more of a dream than reality for most IT organizations. But thanks to the development of the Raft Consensus Algorithm at Stanford University, automatic failover of databases may soon become a routine thing. RethinkDB, a provider of […]

5 Key Ways to Keep File Sharing Secure Over the years, file synchronization and sharing has proven to be the bane of IT organizations. As a primary excuse for the emergence of shadow IT, file synchronization and sharing is a major source of tension between IT and end users. Many internal IT organizations are still […]

Windows 10 on Mobile: 10 Things IT Admins Need to Know Giving IT organizations their first glimpse of a new class of mobile workstations based on next-generation Intel Xeon processors, Lenovo today unveiled a pair of ThinkPad P50 and P70 offerings that not only sport 64GB of DDR4 memory, but also can be configured with […]