Mike Vizard

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud NCR is looking to transform the management of automated teller machines (ATMs) with the launch of an application that enables financial services firms to more easily manage them remotely. Brian Bailey, vice president of software and branch transformation for NCR, says the Kalpana software […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Given the way applications need to dynamically scale, load balancers have become a standard component of most IT environments. But when a developer initially builds their application, they often don’t have access to the load balancing hardware that most IT organizations rely on in production environments, which […]

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 For years now, internal IT organizations that have installed Oracle databases have been taking advantage of free tools that enable them to quickly develop Web applications. Now Oracle wants to see more “citizen developers” taking advantage of the same capabilities. Today, Oracle released an upgrade to Oracle Application Express, […]

Six Details Your Big Data Provider Won’t Tell You Looking to make data integration a routine task for end users rather than an expensive challenge for developers, Bedrock Data today launched a namesake cloud service through which data can be ingested and then exported out into any other data format. Bedrock Data CEO John Marcus […]

Six E-Signature Security Requirements for Digital Transactions Looking to give both end users and IT organizations control over files no matter where they are sent, FinalCode today announced the general availability of software that allows organizations to not only attach permissions to a file, but also delete them whenever necessary regardless of where they are […]

Five Tips for Choosing the Best Cloud Provider With more IT organizations depending on Amazon Web Services (AWS) than ever, managing all those instances of compute resources is proving to be a significant challenge. To address that issue, Cloudnexa is now making available the vNOC cloud management platform. Cloudnexa CEO Joel Davne says that while […]

The Seven Ways to Review Code Like a Boss Ever since making a commitment to using the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment as the underlying platform for deploying its rapid application development (RAD) environment, Mendix has been working on expanding its partnerships with providers of distributions of Cloud Foundry. Today, Mendix announced that […]

Beyond Protection: Security as a Business Enabler In addition to unveiling a new version of a next-generation firewall that enables IT organizations to consolidate security appliances, Cisco this week made it clear that it will deliver security services based on the ThreatGRID security intelligence technology acquired last year. In addition, Cisco announced that its ThreatGRID […]

To SaaS or Not to SaaS: 2015 Enterprise App Outlook As part of a continuing effort to converge sales and marketing functions, Salesforce today rolled out an upgrade to its marketing automation software that adds tools for testing marketing campaigns and nurturing sales leads. Intelligent Engagement Studio and Sales Cloud Engage are delivered as a […]

Five Easy Steps for Securing Data As part of an effort to make encryption a standard component of every application, the Linux Foundation launched its open source Let’s Encrypt project along with its intention to provide access to a free certificate management service. Jim Zemlin, executive director for the Linux Foundation, says the goal for […]

To SaaS or Not to SaaS: 2015 Enterprise App Outlook At the SenchaCon 2015 event today, Sencha outlined how it is pulling together a single platform through which IT organizations can build, deploy and manage both Web and mobile applications. Sencha CEO Art Landro says the Sencha Web Application Lifecycle Management Platform will unify the […]

Six E-Signature Security Requirements for Digital Transactions Looking to change the way security is applied and managed at the document level, Vera today launched a service that allows users to attach permissions to documents and files that stay with them regardless of where the files are sent. Vera CEO Ajay Arora says the service, formerly […]