Mike Vizard

Using Tokenization for Superior Data Security Thanks to Google and Facebook, awareness of Transport Layer Security (TLS), formerly known a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology, is now fairly high. In fact, adoption of TLS/SSL is so high among clients and Web servers that IT organizations are now starting to adopt TLS/SSL to secure communications […]

Five Reasons Scale-Out SQL Will Make Waves in the Enterprise At the Couchbase Connect 2015 conference today, Couchbase revealed that it has developed an implementation of SQL that can be applied to a document database based on the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format. While document databases have gained a lot of momentum among developers, […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose One of the biggest inhibitors to applying Hadoop in any production environment is the general lack of governance tools for IT organizations to use to manage access permissions for the data that resides there. To address that issue, Datameer today announced it has embedded a raft of […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps One of the challenges that IT organizations routinely face when making use of commercial IT automation software has been in extending those platforms to custom applications. For the most part, IT organizations have had to wait for the provider of the workload automation platform to […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management At the HP Discover 2015 conference this week, Hewlett-Packard made a stronger case for moving to an all-Flash environment for primary storage via new additions to the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage family of storage arrays. Specifically, HP announced a StoreServ 20850 offering that provides up to 3.9 PB […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption If Intel has anything to say about it, the way people interact with PCs is about to fundamentally change forever. At the Lenovo TechWorld 2015 conference late last week, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich showcased how 3D cameras can be used to develop applications that not only […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management To expand its reach inside the data center following the acquisition of the IBM x86 server business last year, Lenovo has bolstered its storage area networking (SAN) portfolio with the addition of two storage arrays built by the company from the ground up. Lenovo thus far in the […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Looking to help make it simpler to navigate massive amounts of log data, Logentries this week announced it has developed a query language that is similar in construct to SQL. Logentries Chief Scientist Trevor Parsons said that it became apparent that one of the reasons that IT […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Vowing to bring the same ruthless economic efficiency it has applied to other categories of IT infrastructure, Dell today announced its intention to become a major provider of gateways for Internet of Things (IoT) environments. Based on thin client technology that Dell gained when it acquired […]

Five Tips for Closing the Enterprise Mobility Gap At the Lenovo Tech World 2015 conference this week, Lenovo unveiled a raft of new mobile computing capabilities, including a Magic Watch project that makes use of a virtual interactive display to make the user interface on the watch appear 20 times larger than existing digital watches […]

How to Implement a Successful Customer Experience Program Arguably, there is a direct correlation between the quality of the IT service experience that a user receives and the sophistication of the service desk software upon which the organization relies. Making extensive use of automation to provide a better IT service experience, Atlassian has announced an […]

What Would Happen on a Day Without Data? One of the primary reasons that shadow IT has spun so far out of control is that end users need to be able to share files using their mobile computing devices. In the absence of any service from the internal IT organization to do that, most of […]