Mike Vizard

Five Revolutions that Will Shape the Future of Marketing Marketing organizations, thanks to a passionate interest in all things Big Data, are supposed to consume mass quantities of it in the years ahead. But as marketing services increasingly become delivered via the cloud, it appears that much of the data consumption is going to take […]

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make Looking to put an end to spearphishing attacks that have made a mockery of IT security defenses, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today unveiled technology that automatically extracts malware from both documents attached to email and content downloaded from Web sites. Gabi Reish, vice president […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose At the SAPinsider BI 2015 conference today, SAP rolled out a comprehensive set of predictive analytics offerings intended to appeal to everyone from the average business user to data scientists. Chandran Saravana, senior director of solution marketing for advanced analytics at SAP, says SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0 […]

Leveraging Technology to Enhance Customer Experience Customer service is almost by definition perilous. Tensions are usually running high, which usually means most organizations are potentially only one or two missteps away from losing a customer. But customer service done right is a major opportunity to cement customer loyalty. To help customer service agents give the […]

Ten Hot Google Apps for Business One of the primary reasons that IT organizations aren’t perceived to be particularly agile is that it usually takes them a long time to build an application. But when you talk to IT folks, they will tell you that it’s not the writing of the code that’s the problem, […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 If it wasn’t for the self-service requirement, one could arguably make a case for the mainframe being one of the first instances of a private cloud. IBM looks to be taking the argument further by starting to wrap cloud computing frameworks such as OpenStack and Bluemix around the […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 As part of an effort to make its distribution of Linux a preferred platform for deploying containers, Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 Atomic Host. In addition, Red Hat announced today the general availability of RHEL 7.1, an update […]

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 Adding to the billions of dollars already invested in cognitive computing applications powered by the IBM Watson platform, IBM today announced it has acquired another cognitive computing platform in the form of AlchemyAPI. Based on a text analytics engine that can be accessed as a service, the API platform […]

How to Launch a Successful API In addition to formally joining the Industrial Internet Consortium, SAP this week announced that it is partnering with Jasper to create a platform for managing Internet of Things (IoT) applications and systems. The partnership was announced at the Mobile World Congress 2015 conference. David Parker, global vice president of […]

Fresh off of the announcement that it is being acquired by Hewlett-Packard, Aruba Networks today unveiled a controller for wireless networks that is managed via the cloud. Ozer Dondurmacioglu, senior director of product marketing for Aruba Networks, says the Aruba 7000 series Cloud Services Controllers combine wide area network (WAN) optimization capabilities with a wireless […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Moving to redefine the economics of Flash storage, SanDisk today unveiled a Flash storage system priced at under a dollar a gigabyte for uncompressed storage. While providers of Flash storage have been able to get down to $2 per GB using compressed data, SanDisk Vice President and General […]

The Top Challenges for Network Engineers in 2015 With wireless networks increasingly being chosen as the preferred mechanism for accessing data both inside and out of the enterprise, it was only a matter of time before Hewlett-Packard expanded its networking portfolio. To that end, HP today announced that it is acquiring Aruba Networks in a […]