Mike Vizard

Five Trends Shaping the Future of IT With customer service and support playing a more critical role in the overall customer experience, organizations of all sizes are revamping these applications with an eye toward increasing the amount of revenue generated per satisfied customer. To help enable that, Salesforce today unfurled a new edition of its […]

Defining Deep Data: What It Is and How to Use It Fresh off of raising another $45 million in capital, Snowflake Computing has announced that its cloud service for building data warehouse applications is now generally available. Based on a relational database specifically designed to host data warehousing applications in the cloud, Snowflake Computing CTO […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Most business users are already conditioned to explore data inside the context of an online analytics processing (OLAP) construct that presents them with a cube through which they can explore data. Starting today, Kyvos Insights wants to apply that same concept at scale to Big Data. Emerging […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption As part of an effort to expand the appeal of its financial application portfolio delivered via the cloud, Workday today announced Workday Planning, a planning, budgeting and forecasting application that it plans to deliver in 2016; it shares access to the same records used across the […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Moving to provide a foundation on which Internet of Things (IoT) applications can be delivered, Cisco today unveiled 15 separate products across six different IoT functional areas. Spanning everything from classic network and security products to analytics and management software, Kip Compton, vice president and general […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 In another sign that API management is becoming a feature of larger integration frameworks, SnapLogic has announced it has partnered with both 3Scale and Restlet to embed API management inside the SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform that is invoked as a cloud service. Darren Cunningham, vice president of […]

Cognitive Clouds: Gaining a Competitive Advantage As the number of microservices based on containers like Docker proliferates across the enterprise, IT operations teams will need more granular insight into the IT infrastructure forces affecting the performance of IT services. To provide that visibility, at the DockerCon 2015 conference, Sumo Logic announced that it has extended […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption While Docker containers may prove to be a boon for server utilization, somebody still has to provision all the network and storage resources they consume. At the DockerCon 2015 conference this week, Datawise.io previewed an upcoming release of its management software for containers that makes it […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network At the DockerCon 2015 conference this week, EMC revealed that it is not only now shipping version 2.0 of its EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) platform, but that IT organizations can also now make use of Docker containers to deploy ECS on any set of IT infrastructure they want. […]

Tap the Power of Your Network: Five Mobile Apps At a Salesforce World Tour event in Paris today, Salesforce unfurled an addition to its Service Cloud that promises to make it simpler to incorporate mobile applications within the overall customer service experience. Sarah Patterson, senior vice president of marketing for Salesforce Service Cloud, says it’s […]

If Dinosaurs Had Big Data, Would They Be Extinct? As part of an effort to provide enhanced security and auditing tools around software-defined data marts that can be deployed on a virtual machine, Metanautix this week released an update to its Quest data compute engine. Metanautix CEO Theo Vassilakis says Quest 2.0 adds more enterprise-class […]

What Would Happen on a Day Without Data? As a provider of a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment anchored around a set of rapid application development (RAD) tools, WaveMaker has already incorporated application programming interface (API) management tools into its core platform. This week, WaveMaker is also including tools that make it simpler to publish and manage […]