Mike Vizard

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network For the most part, IT organizations have continued to rely on expensive multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) technologies for wide area networking primarily because they are both more secure and faster than standard Internet connections. Silver Peak is now making it clear that MPLS networking days may finally be well […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Not too long ago, business intelligence was pretty much defined by one application aimed at a single source of data that—if the right questions were asked—would reveal all. The problem was that another application aimed at a different source of data would reveal different answers to the […]

Q1 2015 IT Reality Check: Budgets, Hiring, Trends As part of an effort to make 3D peripherals accessible to a broader number of people, Hewlett-Packard today unveiled a $299 turntable that makes it simpler to capture 3D images using the company’s line of Sprout PCs. Eric Monsef, head of highly immersive systems for HP, says […]

The Seven Ways to Review Code Like a Boss Application testing has evolved rapidly mainly thanks to an increased focus on DevOps processes with the biggest impact being that application testing now occurs concurrently alongside the development of the actual application. Now, providers of application testing services in the cloud are adjusting the way they […]

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make Lots of organizations are aware of the potential value of their IT logs; it’s just that they’re not in a financial position to do much about. To help internal IT teams overcome that issue, Graylog developed an open source log analytics application that has been […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data As one of the leading proponents of enabling end users to self-service their own data integration needs via the cloud, Adeptia has been an early champion of “citizen integrators.” Now, Adeptia is making it possible for IT organizations to apply some guardrails around how the Adeptia cloud […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data At the Hadoop Summit 2015 conference today, MapR Technologies advanced its case for the convergence of transaction processing and operational analytics on top of a distribution of Hadoop with an upgrade that automatically synchronizes database, storage and search indices within a real-time application. Jack Norris, chief marketing […]

Defining Deep Data: What It Is and How to Use It While there is clearly no shortage of ways to invoke SQL against Hadoop, the Presto SQL engine developed by Facebook has clearly proven it can scale. This week, Teradata threw its weight behind the open source Presto project by pledging to not only provide […]

Defining Deep Data: What It Is and How to Use It For all the excitement that Big Data often generates with an organization, one of the fundamental challenges most of them face comes down to data management plumbing. There’s no shortage of data, but organizing all of it in a way that makes it consumable […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off In addition to announcing that it is making its core engine available as an open source Project Apex technology, DataTorrent has released an update to its Big Data analytics software for Hadoop that eliminates the dependencies organizations now have on developers to create these applications. […]

Five Tips to Ensure Apps Are Watch Worthy With over 30 million online meetings taking place using Join.me cloud service from LogMeIn, it’s clear that large numbers of users have voted with their feet to embrace another way to collaborate. Now, LogMeIn is extending the reach of that service by enhancing the user experience on […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments At the MongoDB World 2015 conference this week, MongoDB outlined forthcoming additions to the open source document database that cover everything from connectors to business intelligence applications that enable MongoDB to respond to SQL read requests to the ability to join data sets. Kelly Stirman, vice president […]