Mike Vizard

Tips for Securing Data in a Mobile World Though text messaging started out being little more than a medium through which users shared a few words with each other using their smartphone, a funny thing happened. It turns out that many IT organizations are now relying on short message service (SMS) to actually authenticate users. […]

Six Data Breach Predictions for 2015 Given the variety of devices that most end users now have access to, determining who actually owns the systems that have been compromised by malware can be something of a challenge. To address that issue, ForgeRock, a provider of identity management software, announced this week a partnership with FireEye, […]

How to Select a Sales Automation Solution In another sign of how the lines between applications are getting blurrier in the age of the cloud, LogMeIn has forged an integration with Salesforce.com under which users of the customer relationship management (CRM) software can invoke the join.me online meeting service. Craig Daniel, senior vice president of […]

A Guide to the Different Varieties of Flash Technology Oracle this week announced a raft of new system offerings that spanned everything from database appliances to new Flash-based storage systems. But the most significant advance may actually be the level of control that Oracle is now giving customers over how many cores they use on […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years When it comes to IT agility, a lot of the focus of the discussion these days is on DevOps processes that are either non-existent or simply outdated. To help modernize those processes as quickly as possible, Distelli has created a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that automates […]

The Eighteen Best Android Apps of 2014 Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled a raft of mobile computing devices aimed squarely at enterprise IT organizations, including models designed specifically for health care, retail and education environments. Michael Park, vice president and general manager for commercial mobility and software in the HP Business Personal Systems Group, says that […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years With more enterprise IT organizations relying on software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications than ever, securing the data that flows in and out of those applications has become a major challenge and concern. To give IT organizations more control over that data, Protegrity today unveiled the Protegrity Cloud […]

Embracing the Software-Defined Future: Looking Ahead at 2015 Making a case for application delivery controller (ADC) technology as the foundation of a cloud operating system, A10 Networks today unveiled an A10 Harmony framework for programming its Thunder ADCs along with an upgrade to the operating system that runs on top of them. Paul Nicholson, director […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Dell today signaled its intention to compete more aggressively in the IT data analytics space with an upgrade to Dell InTrust data repository that adds a new interactive search capability. Jessica Morrison, Dell product marketing manager for InTrust, says that as a much lower-cost alternative to data […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today extended its effort to separate where data logically resides from its physical location via a series of updates to the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). With the introduction of the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) S10, IT organizations now have the option to store […]

Seven Must-Have Features for Great Mobile Apps One of the things that is fundamentally different about mobile applications is that the development and management processes are generally much more closely aligned than with traditional desktop applications. Rather than building and managing applications in isolation, the need to constantly upgrade mobile applications forces a convergence of […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments At its core, analytics is all about the ability to correlate data from different sources to identify patterns that help make sense of the business. The challenge has been finding a way to gain access to that data without having to wait on someone in IT to […]