Mike Vizard

Red Hat has enlisted the aid of 3scale to provide an API management platform within the JBoss Middleware platform. 3scale CEO Steve Willmott says that as usage of APIs has become broader, the time to start integrating API management at the middleware and operating system level has arrived. While the relationship between Red Hat and […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off With responsibility for data governance increasingly moving well beyond the traditional four walls of the enterprise, IT organizations need access to tools that allow them to apply policies to data regardless of where it is. As part of an effort to address that issue and […]

How to Launch a Successful API As part of an effort to increase the appeal of its database platform, MarkLogic today announced that the latest release of MarkLogic 8 now supports JavaScript and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). MarkLogic CEO Gary Bloom says that while MarkLogic has been able to gain traction in the enterprise as […]

Embracing the Software-Defined Future: Looking Ahead at 2015 Moving to give IT organizations more flexibility in terms of how to make the shift to a new era of programmable software-defined networks (SDN), Cisco today announced that it is adding support for the Border Gateway Protocol – Ethernet Virtual Private Network (BGP EVPN) standard in Cisco […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 There are fundamentally three basic ways to protect data. IT organizations can make use of backup and recovery software that runs on a server, they can offload to an appliance, or move the whole process into the cloud. None of those approaches are mutually exclusive, which is […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years Looking to take advantage of the growing enthusiasm for Docker containers among application developers, Oracle today announced that images of Oracle Linux are now available on the Docker Hub Registry. Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president for Linux and virtualization engineering at Oracle, says Oracle wants […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 A major upgrade to the open source MongoDB document database released this week adds a new storage engine option along with support for a MongoDB Ops Manager tool designed to make it simpler to manage multiple instances of MongoDB at scale. Kelly Stirman, director of products for […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 As part of an effort to make accessing data in real time much simpler, SnapLogic this week added a SnapLogic Ultra Pipelines service that can be programmed to listen for events and then immediately respond to requests for relevant data associated with those events. Darren Cunningham, vice president […]

Five Ways Contact Centers Use Analytics to Make Smarter Business Decisions Heralding the arrival of the real-time enterprise, SAP today formally unveiled a rechristened SAP Business Suite 4 (S/4HANA), a full implementation of its core ERP software platform running on the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform that customers can invoke as a cloud service. SAP […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Looking to put a major hybrid cloud computing stake in the ground, VMware this week launched a flurry of updates to its core platforms that includes an update to VMware vSphere that adds 650 new features. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says this version not only represents the […]

Embracing the Software-Defined Future: Looking Ahead at 2015 Manually updating software infrastructure is generally a painful, time-consuming task that is one of the primary reasons most IT organizations are not particularly agile. As part of a broad effort to automate the updating of operating systems and other classes of software infrastructure, CoreOS created an open […]

Six Reasons Why CES Should Scare the Hell out of Network Administrators In a move that significantly expands the management reach of DNS appliances, Infoblox has unveiled an Infoblox Network Cloud Automation platform that automates the provisioning of virtual networks. Arya Barirani, vice president of product marketing, says that while there have been tools in […]