Mike Vizard

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network At the AWS Summit in New York this week, Datapipe extended its managed service offerings for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud to include a series of templates that IT organizations can invoke to automate deployment and orchestration of application workloads on AWS. In addition, Datapipe is now working […]

If Dinosaurs Had Big Data, Would They Be Extinct? Looking to give organizations a significant leg up in terms of embracing Big Data analytics applications, Accenture today unfurled the Accenture Insights Platform. John Matchette, managing director for analytics at Accenture, says by providing a complete stack of analytics software in the cloud that spans everything […]

Five Hidden Risks with Public Cloud Usage As a provider of services for managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) deployments, Cloudnexa has emerged as a significant force in an IT services cottage industry that has sprung up around AWS. At the AWS Summit in New York today, Cloudnexa announced that it is opening up the network […]

Five Reasons to Take Cloud Security More Seriously As a provider of cloud access brokering services, Bitglass has gained a fair amount of traction among IT organizations that need to be able to keep track of who accessed which cloud application when. Now Bitglass is extending those cloud brokering capabilities to include 256-bit AES encryption […]

Thanks mainly to the rise of cloud computing, interest in unified communications services has never been higher. For the better part of a decade, many IT organizations have deployed some subset of unified communications technologies on premise and success has been spotty at best. As those organizations gear up to embrace cloud services from Microsoft […]

Six Ways Open Source Benefits Your Business When it comes to IT infrastructure management, many IT organizations have opted to employ open source tools such as Packer, Terraform and Consul as alternatives to commercial offerings, mainly because getting budget approval for IT management software can be a challenge. As a primary contributor to these open […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data After being officially spun off from Symantec this year, Veritas today revealed that it plans to focus on delivering a robust portfolio of information management products and services that will span on-premise and cloud deployments. Doug Matthews, vice president of information availability for Veritas, says in advance […]

Five Barriers for Enterprise Mobility IT organizations of all sizes are spending an inordinate amount of time trying to tweak existing applications in a way that enables them to run on any number of mobile computing platforms. Given that most of that effort requires code or at least developing application programming interfaces (APIs), the application […]

Moving to the Public Cloud: Six Steps for Success One of the major issues that IT organizations have with any form of external cloud computing is that they don’t have much visibility into what is occurring within any of those environments. To help address that specific issue, Ixia created its Net Tool Optimizer, which makes […]

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud The emergence of Big Data has presented Liaison Technologies, a provider of data management and integration services delivered via the cloud, with both an opportunity and a challenge: to offer holistic data management in the cloud. To that end, the company has partnered with […]

How to Navigate the Common Pitfalls of Security Policy Management Spikes Security, a startup company headed by the former technical lead of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, this week unveiled an Isla appliance specifically designed to isolate malware from the end-user computing environment. Spikes Security CEO and CTO Branden Spikes says the Isla appliance takes advantage […]

Five Tips to Ensure Apps Are Watch Worthy While the jury may still be out on the business value of the Apple Watch, providers of mobile applications are apparently seeing enough demand to warrant providing support. This week, Good Technology announced that it is extending its support for the Apple Watch in its Good Work […]