Mike Vizard

Five Key Takeaways for Developing with Redis To allow developers to invoke both its SQL and NoSQL databases via a common set of REST applications, Oracle this week announced the general availability of version 3.0 of Oracle REST Data Services. In addition, Oracle released version 4.1 of Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle SQL Developer Data […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments To make it simpler for IT organizations to construct modern data warehouses with both Hadoop and a massively parallel database, at the EMC World 2015 conference today, Pivotal unveiled a faster implementation of the Pivotal Greenplum Database and an implementation of the Apache Spark framework that runs […]

The Top Challenges for Network Engineers in 2015 At the CoreOS Fest conference today, CoreOS solidified support for the App Container spec (appc) for building and defining container applications, while also announcing that it is extending the functionality of the Quay container registry for private cloud deployments. Vendors that have joined a new governing body […]

How to Avoid Downtime with a Proper Disaster Recovery Plan Setting up disaster recovery that can be invoked remotely on demand has always been something of a challenge, mainly because it usually requires deploying physical or virtual appliances locally and then replicating data into the cloud. Zetta.net today announced the availability of a disaster recovery-as-a-service […]

Five Tips for Choosing the Best Cloud Provider Following its acquisition of Orchestrate, a provider of a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering based on a NoSQL database, CenturyLink is letting it be known that its ambitions now go well beyond providing hosting and telecommunications services. Dave Shacochis, vice president of the cloud platform at CenturyLink, says that […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data While there is a lot of interest in the potential of machine learning software, tapping into those capabilities is a major undertaking. Looking to make machine learning software more accessible, Adatao today released the Adatao Data Intelligence Platform, a comprehensive stack of software that includes everything from […]

A Third-Party Management Best Practices Checklist Looking to extend the reach of its IT management software into the cloud, SolarWinds this week announced it has acquired Papertrail, a provider of a log analytics application delivered as a service. SolarWinds President and CEO Kevin Thompson says the acquisition of Papertrail for $41 million signals the company’s […]

The Impact of Mobility on the Enterprise Thanks mainly to the rise of mobile applications, IT organizations are building more apps than ever. One challenge they face is that most are always behind schedule when developing any application, and the end result is a tendency to short shrift the application testing process. Looking to make […]

Five Tips to Ensure Apps Are Watch Worthy The Apple Watch will either be the next big thing in wearable devices or a passing fad, but plenty of backend communications services stand to benefit from the users that have spent part of this week learning what they can do with their Apple Watches. Among those […]

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make Thanks to a rash of high-profile security breaches, awareness of IT security issues has never been higher. The problem, however, is that most IT security is only as strong as the weakest chain in the link. For that reason, a lot of extra attention is […]

Top Seven Priorities for IT in 2015 Turns out that one of the fastest-growing desktop operating systems might not actually come from Microsoft after all. With more organizations switching to software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, the need for traditional desktop operating systems such as Windows is perhaps not as great as it once was. In recognition of […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 At the Interop 2015 conference today, Hewlett-Packard unveiled a module that for its switches that offloads processing for software-defined networking (SDN) software from the server alongside a new and enhanced SDN application that makes it simpler to visualize and secure those networks. Dominic Wilde, vice president of […]