Mike Vizard

To SaaS or Not to SaaS: 2015 Enterprise App Outlook As adoption of cloud computing continues to expand, IT organizations are starting to realize that despite the promise of the cloud, actually managing IT in the enterprise is getting more (not less) difficult. Not only are there more applications and platforms in the cloud to […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Two of the more complex things about analytics are that it’s expensive and complex to gather all the relevant data into a central repository, and the needs of any two people looking to access that data are never quite the same. Looking to rise to that challenge, […]

Preventing Shadow IT: Tips for Designing Better Enterprise Apps One of the primary things that most enterprise IT organizations are trying to do with tablets is deploy applications that eliminate paper-based processes involving forms. To accelerate the development of such applications, Alpha Software today previewed the beta release of an update to its Alpha Anywhere […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know The way IT infrastructure is being deployed and managed across the data center is clearly shifting in the wake of the increased adoption of multiple forms of converged infrastructure and scale-out storage systems. Now, Savage IO wants to take the convergence of servers, networking, controllers and […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Via its acquisition of Compose, a provider of managed services spanning multiple types of databases, and the general release today of a managed dashDB Enterprise MPP service based on the IBM Netezza and IBM BLU Acceleration database technologies, IBM is making it clear that it wants to […]

Five Reasons Why Information Security Is Everyone’s Job While just about every organization deploys antivirus software on endpoints, there’s generally not much faith that the amount of protection being provided makes installing this class of security software worth the effort. In fact, beyond providing protection against the most routine types of attacks, antivirus software is […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization Now that Docker containers are all the rage among developers, the real work in terms of managing those containers needs to begin. As a first step toward providing the foundational layer needed to accomplish that task, Logentries this week announced it has added Docker container support to a […]

Tipping the Data Breach Odds in Your Favor One of the biggest challenges that IT organizations face when it comes to security is trying to figure out the difference between a simple anomaly and an actual security event. Often, by the time they do determine that an anomaly is a threat and not just someone […]

Five Reasons Why Information Security Is Everyone’s Job After acquiring Blitzer in 2013 to gain access to mobile security technologies, Oracle this week announced that it has integrated those capabilities within its overall identity and access management portfolio. Jim Taylor, senior director of product management for Oracle, says that via a single user interface, IT […]

Five Reasons Why Information Security Is Everyone’s Job Even though a $635 million acquisition of the company by Cisco is pending, OpenDNS is plowing ahead with new security intelligence services designed to make it simpler to identify where malware is being generated, consumed and distributed. Bobby Guhasarkar, director of product marketing at OpenDNS, says the […]

Harnessing the Power of Big Data with Geospatial Mapping At the Esri User Conference 2015 today, Esri and SAP announced that they are extending their existing alliance to allow Esri desktop software users to create, read, update or delete data that resides in the SAP HANA database, while making it simpler to embed Esri geospatial […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Rather than going to the trouble of standing up their own analytics platform, Data Intensity via the general availability this week of Analytics1 is making the case for moving business intelligence applications into the cloud altogether. John Bostick, president of the analytics division of Data Intensity, a […]