Mike Vizard

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape As part of an effort to better integrate two of the major elements of its Big Data Platform, Hewlett-Packard today upgraded the HP Haven Big Data Enterprise and OnDemand Platforms. At the core of that upgrade is the launch of an HP Haven Connector Framework Server that […]

To SaaS or Not to SaaS: 2015 Enterprise App Outlook Following up on its acquisition of the FeedHenry backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform last year, Red Hat has outlined a mobile computing strategy under which it will unify FeedHenry with its existing application server and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings. Cathal McGloin, vice president of mobile platforms for FeedHenry […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Virtualizing storage may not be a new idea, but turning multiple storage nodes into a programmable virtual disk promises to significantly change the way storage is managed inside the enterprise. Hedvig, fresh from raising an additional $12.5 million in funding, aims to transform storage with the launch of […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Moving to extend the reach of its IT automation portfolio into new realms, Puppet Labs today announced an upgrade to Puppet Enterprise that adds support for Amazon Web Services, bare metal servers, Docker containers and actual application code. Tim Zonca, director of product marketing at Puppet Labs, […]

How to Implement a Successful Customer Experience Program Not all service desk experiences are created equal. In fact, the service desk that an IT organization might create versus the one the rest of the company might prefer to use are radically different. To make the service desk experience more appealing, Atlassian created the JIRA Service […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data It is one thing to be able to load all the information on a topic into a supercomputer and spit out answers to questions; it’s quite another to be able to actually help end users frame the questions. With that goal in mind, Ayasdi has developed an […]

Beyond Protection: Security as a Business Enabler One of the reasons that IT security has become such a nightmare is that most organizations not only don’t have a process in place to manage vulnerabilities, they are not even sure where to begin. To help organizations begin to address IT security more consistently, NopSec created a […]

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud After establishing itself as a major provider of integration software inside the data center, Talend is now making the move to the cloud. The company today announced Talend Integration Cloud, a set of integration services that can be invoked via the cloud but actually […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes One of the primary reasons that IT organizations look to NoSQL databases in the first place is to address managing data at scale. But not all NoSQL databases scale equally well. Taking advantage of a protocol it developed to enable its open source NoSQL database to more easily scale out […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Looking to make it simpler to launch a Big Data project, EMC today unveiled a Federation Business Data Lake, an amalgamation of technologies across multiple EMC business units that sharply reduces the amount of integration work needed to be done by internal IT organizations. The solution is […]

How to Launch a Successful API After acquiring mzPivotGrid earlier this month, Sencha this week announced that it has merged the Sencha Ext JS and Sencha Touch web application development frameworks into Sencha Ext JS 6.0. Art Kay, developer relations manager for Sencha, says that organizations will now be able to use a single code […]

Basketball Tournament Leads to Network Madness One of the new realities of IT is the emergence of micro-services based on containers that will dynamically invoke a wide variety of network services. To help enable that to occur, F5 Networks today unveiled an F5 LineRate Point Load Balancer that allows IT organizations to deploy Layer 7 […]