Mike Vizard

Five Reasons to Take Cloud Security More Seriously IT staffs spend an inordinate amount of time and effort configuring the stacks of software to run applications. But if anything was made clear at the OpenStack Summit 2015 conference last week, it’s that much of the work associated with deploying tools like Hadoop is about to […]

Testing applications is not only a thankless task, it can be maddeningly frustrating. All too often, there is an anomaly that is adversely affecting a particular application in a specific location that the internal IT organization can’t find a way to replicate, never mind fix. Providing a way to automate the testing of applications after […]

The Seven Ways to Review Code Like a Boss One of the first places emerging technologies like Docker containers always manifest is in application development and testing environments. Given the rising popularity of Docker containers, it makes sense that BlazeMeter this week announced that its application load generating software can now be run on top […]

What Would Happen on a Day Without Data? Data virtualization has become a critical technology for exposing large amounts of data to other applications without necessarily having to physically transfer data between on-premise data centers and the cloud or between two cloud computing platforms. The challenge is that a lot of that data tends to […]

Preventing Shadow IT: Tips for Designing Better Enterprise Apps Conventional wisdom holds that the line between choosing a PC or tablet often comes down to content creation and consumption. Most people don’t want to create documents and spreadsheets using a tablet device. But it’s become clear that users do prefer to consume content on a […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose With access to larger amounts of memory on both processors and via Flash cards, interest is starting to rise in in-memory databases that make it easier to combine transaction processing and analytics within a single application. Looking to become one of the primary drivers of that trend […]

Five Reasons to Take Cloud Security More Seriously While Amazon Web Services will most definitely secure its own infrastructure, when it comes to anything riding on top of the infrastructure, enterprise IT organizations are on their own. To enable IT organizations to secure cloud applications running on AWS, ObserveIT today unfurled ObserveIT CloudThreat for AWS, […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption Content may be king, but when it comes to serving up content that a specific person might find interesting, most content management system (CMS) platforms are very poor indeed. Looking to provide organizations with a more precise way of providing the right content at the right […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data For all the hype surrounding Big Data, the one constant has been SQL. Despite some early chatter about replacing SQL, it remains the lingua franca for accessing data sources big and small. The only real question now is the speed at which SQL queries can be made […]

Five Ways to Prepare for the Enterprise Cloud As part of an effort to provide a set of managed IT services in the cloud, CDW has announced that it will now manage implementations of the Microsoft Azure cloud on behalf of its customers. Best known as a multi-billion dollar reseller of IT hardware and software, […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Moving to boost its portfolio of Big Data technologies, Oracle this week unveiled Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph that embeds spatial and graph analytics capabilities directly inside the Oracle NoSQL Database and Hadoop. James Steiner, vice president of product management for Oracle Spatial, says that while […]

Thanks largely to the fact that memory and Flash storage provide a way to process more data faster than ever, interest in real-time applications has increased markedly over the last year. The problem is that building these applications on top of existing databases is not particularly easy. With the launch of version 2.0 of its […]