Mike Vizard

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data While Hadoop has had the potential to transform the way data warehouses are deployed for quite some time, IT organizations still wind up moving data from Hadoop into a traditional data warehouse, because that’s where the tools for analyzing that data are located. But now, analytics tools […]

Embracing the Software-Defined Future: Looking Ahead at 2015 Moving to flatten enterprise networks from the edge inward, Brocade today unveiled a stackable campus switch that supports both Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking levels in a single platform. Siva Valliappan, ‎vice president of the campus line of business at Brocade, says that Brocade is now […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape CoreOS today took the wraps off a Tectonic platform that combines its distribution of Linux with the Kubernetes framework for managing containers that was developed by Google. Fresh off another $12 million round of financing lead by Google Venture, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi says that Tectonic is not […]

The Top Challenges for Network Engineers in 2015 Continuing an expansion of all aspects of enterprise networking, Dell today unveiled a new higher-end series of managed switches, at the same time making additions to its existing lineup of switches. Arpit Joshipura, vice president of strategy and product management for Dell Networking, says the new X-series […]

The Seven Ways to Review Code Like a Boss Rapid application development (RAD) using modeling tools has emerged as a way to swiftly reduce application development backlogs across the enterprise. Now Mendix is taking that concept a step further via the introduction of Mendix Model Share, a mechanism through which developers can share and reuse […]

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud One shadow IT trend that IT organizations often find annoying is when users invoke file synchronization and share services in the cloud without IT approval. Truth be told, however, most end users invoke that service because the internal IT organization doesn’t offer much in […]

The Impact of Mobility on the Enterprise Looking to bring its platform for managing Apple devices closer in line to the way Apple sells and registers devices, JAMF Software this week released an upgrade to its Casper Suite of management software. JAMF Software CTO Jason Wudi says version 9.7 of Casper Suite now supports enrollment […]

Developing Tech: What’s Next? While there is clearly a huge amount of interest in all things relating to the Internet of Things, the management of thousands of interconnected devices is going to give even the largest of IT organizations cause for pause. To address that challenge, Apigee this week unveiled Apigee Link, a set of […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Given the massive amounts of data that enterprise IT organizations are starting to routinely deal with, moving data around the enterprise to process it is becoming less practical. As a result, interest in data virtualization technologies that create virtual instances of data that physically resides somewhere else […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data When it comes to data management, the fundamental problem is that data doesn’t describe itself, which means it’s up to the IT organization to figure out the relationship between different data sets. Starting today, Alation wants to apply machine learning software to automate that process in a […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Thanks mainly to a growing number of compliance requirements, investments in data governance have increased over the years. But at some point, a set of terms that becomes the way certain actions and processes relating to how the business operates needs to be defined. With that goal in mind, ASG […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments With organizations rushing to embrace mobile computing, the development of mobile applications often becomes something of a hurried affair, resulting in low usage of these applications. Looking to help organizations take a more structured approach to testing mobile applications both before and after they are deployed into […]