Mike Vizard

Top Barriers to Effective Vulnerability Risk Management Taking the whole concept of data security to its most logical conclusion, Secure Islands has come up with a method that automates the application of security to any piece of data, depending on how it’s classified, as that data is being generated. Secure Islands CEO Aki Eldar says […]

How to Spring Clean Tech Profiles for Better Organization Management Faced with trying to manage hundreds, possibly even thousands, of upgrades across not only multiple versions of Windows, but also a variety of other platforms, most IT organizations are trying to figure out how to impose a little order on what is often an inherently […]

Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in Q2 2015 Not too long ago, application whitelisting as a form of IT security was looked upon as being far too restrictive a measure for most end users to accept. Fast forward a few years and several high-profile security breaches later and it looks like application whitelisting might […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption One of the major reasons that desktop virtualization never really took off with most IT organizations is because there aren’t many tools available to manage the environment. At the Citrix Synergy 2015 conference today, Dell announced that IT organizations can now apply Dell Foglight analytics to […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments Looking to extend the reach of its business intelligence across the realm of Big Data, Pentaho today announced data integration capabilities with the Apache Spark in-memory framework for processing Big Data queries. Donna Prlich, vice president of product marketing for Pentaho, says the initial use cases for […]

Why the Open Source Stars Must Align To make it simpler for organizations to embrace an open source framework for rapid application development (RAD), IBM has thrown its weight behind the Ionic open source RAD platform. Mike Gilfix, vice president of the IBM MobileFirst platform, says organizations are embracing RAD tools to not only reduce […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data For SAP, the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is not so much about connecting things to the Internet as it is automating business processes. At the recent Sapphire Now conference, SAP outlined how it will make use of a lightweight implementation of the SAP HANA […]

At the Microsoft Ignite conference this week, Microsoft gave attendees a glimpse of the next version of the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database. Tiffany Wissner, senior director, data platform marketing at Microsoft, said that while Microsoft has not committed to a ship date yet for Microsoft SQL Server 2016, it wants IT organizations to start […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps SAP is gearing up to embed streaming predictive analytics capabilities inside the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform via an update the company will roll out later this month. Mike Eacrett, vice president of product management for SAP HANA at SAP Labs, says Service Pack 10 for SAP HANA […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 One of the primary concerns that IT organizations have with deploying containers is security. While containers are an emerging virtualization technology and have become popular with developers, IT operations teams are wary of deploying them in production applications because there is no mechanism for applying security controls […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Moving to extend its portfolio of hybrid storage offerings, Dell today unveiled a set of storage arrays that make use of dual controllers to provide access to as much as five petabytes of data. Priced starting at $14,000 and designed to fit in a 2u rack, the Dell […]

Global Study Finds Social Media Drives Content Discovery with Millennials Looking to bridge the gap between social media networks and e-commerce, IBM and Facebook today announced a partnership through which organizations using IBM e-commerce software will be able to tap directly into Facebook application programming interfaces (APIs). Jay Henderson, director of strategy for IBM ExperienceOne, […]