Mike Vizard

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network To give IT organizations more visibility into application performance spanning multiple systems, AppDynamics today announced that the summer 2015 release of its IT monitoring software provides the ability to track business transactions from end-user devices through the application code, databases, third-party API calls, servers, and other infrastructure. Kalyan Ramanathan, […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network Moving to address I/O contention issues that can result when hundreds of Docker containers contend to access the same storage resources, Zadara Storage today announced that it has come up with a way to run Docker containers on top of its storage system rather than on a traditional server. […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network At the DockerCon 2015 conference today, Docker made good on an earlier promise to extend the reach of Docker containers across distributed networking environments involving multiple hosts. Scott Johnston, senior vice president of product for Docker, says the addition makes use of software-defined networking (SDN) technology the company gained […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management At the DockerCon 2015 today, Portworx “emerged from stealth mode” to reveal that it has developed storage software that brings native support for block-level storage to containers such as Docker. Backed by $8.5 million in venture capital funding, Portworx CEO Murli Thirumale says that the startup vendor has […]

Five Ways to Ensure Remote Workers Are Sharing and Accessing Files Securely With Microsoft gearing up to begin shipping its Surface Hub, which combines videoconferencing and whiteboard functionality inside 55 and 84-in. interactive displays, the stage is set for the company to change the way organizations think about collaboration and sharing data. Mark Skoog, CTO […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption The future of enterprise IT will be defined by the need to securely deliver a more consumer-like application experience that can be updated in a matter of minutes. Speaking at the launch this week of a VMware Business Mobility initiative, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says this […]

Six Tips for Turning Customer Feedback into a Powerful Business Tool As part of an effort to make analytics more accessible, Salesforce today at a Salesforce World Tour event launched a series of analytics applications targeted at specific roles inside organizations. Anna Rosenman, senior director of product marketing for Salesforce Analytics Cloud, says via the […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data The primary challenge with turning analytics into actionable business intelligence is that while there is no shortage of data inside and out of the enterprise, correlating that information in a way that is meaningful to the business has always been problematic. To address that specific issue, FirstRain […]

The difference between total chaos and a minor inconvenience usually comes down to how well trained the organization is to handle the unexpected. To provide IT organizations with a framework for responding to unplanned outages, PagerDuty created a platform for managing IT incidents. Today PagerDuty upgraded that platform to include support for Rich Incidents. PagerDuty […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption After initially focusing on providing data governance services for mobile applications, Druva today announced that it is adding support for its first software-as-a-service (SaaS) application in the form of Microsoft Office 365. Based on a Druva file system actually running on the Amazon Web Services cloud, […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data At the SAPinsider HANA 2015 conference today, SAP released an SAP HANA SPS10 update that extends the data management capabilities of the in-memory computing platform while at the same time automating the algorithm selection inside version 2.2 of SAP Predictive Analytics software. In addition, SAP revealed that […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose To join in the momentum from the open source Apache Spark in-memory computing framework build, IBM today announced that it is making a major commitment to Spark in the form of IBM SystemML machine learning software that it will donate to a project that 3,500 IBM researchers […]