Mike Vizard

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose At the Qonnections 2015 Global Partner 2015 conference today, Qlik unveiled an update to its data visualization platform that adds self-service capabilities while at the same time providing simpler access to external data sources. In addition, Qlik unveiled an implementation of the Qlik Analytics Platform aimed specifically […]

How NFV Is Linking People and Machines Moving to give IT organizations more control over all the things they might want to connect to the Internet, Sprint this week released an upgrade to the management platform it uses to manage machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Mohamad Nasser, senior director of product, platforms and marketing for the Emerging […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 At this juncture, it really is only a matter of time before IT organizations find themselves looking for a way to replicate data between two or more diverse implementations of Hadoop. To address that issue, WANdisco this week announced it has begun shipping WANdisco Fusion, a […]

The Top Challenges for Network Engineers in 2015 In a move to extend the capabilities of its CloudBridge WAN optimization platform, Citrix today announced that it can now provide IT organizations a way to create virtual WANs that span multiple types of networks. With most organizations today trying to optimize the flow of traffic across […]

How to Implement a Successful Customer Experience Program Looking to extend the adoption of corporate performance management (CPM) applications delivered via the cloud, Adaptive Insights today unveiled its Adaptive Solutions offering that speeds up deployment of CPM applications along with 20 other enhancements to the core application. The news was presented at the Adaptive Live […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Now that business intelligence software has been firmly established as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, the next big challenge is encouraging more users to adopt it in lieu of desktop applications like the venerable spreadsheet. To help achieve this goal, GoodData today released an upgrade to its namesake […]

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make At the RSA 2015 conference today, Cisco announced that it will be applying machine learning software delivered as a service to IT security via a partnership with Elastica. Under terms of the deal, both companies will combine machine learning applications from Elastica that identify anomalies […]

Top Barriers to Effective Vulnerability Risk Management At the RSA 2015 conference today, HP extended the reach and scope of its IT security offerings to include access to a free portal through which users can check the security reputation of mobile applications and user behavior analytics to make it easier for IT organizations to use […]

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make Lost in all the recent hubbub surrounding a decision to take Informatica private has been a push by the company to significantly expand its role in the realm of information security. At the RSA 2015 conference this week, Informatica will showcase its new Secure@Source offering, […]

Six Details Your Big Data Provider Won’t Tell You Continuing its campaign to expand the definition and scope of data warehouses, Teradata today announced that it has created a software-defined data warehouse while also moving to extend its ability to consolidate run SQL queries on additional distributions of Hadoop. As an enhancement to its core […]

Eleven Gadget Gifts for Travelers One of the long-held promises of tablet computing has been the idea that people should be able to make use of a digital pen to take notes that would then be transformed into text. While there has been no shortage of attempts to deliver that, the quality of the user […]

Seven Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Through Behavioral Analysis As part of an effort to create a massive IT security community, IBM today announced it will share ongoing security intelligence in real time along with security data that it has collected over the last 20 years via an IBM X-Force Exchange portal. Diana Kelley, executive security […]