Mike Vizard

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers With Federal calls in the last 30 days for a variety of legislation covering data breach notification, student data privacy protection, and privacy, more attention is obviously being brought to bear on how data is being used and by whom across the enterprise. As […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Machine learning has emerged as one of the most compelling area of IT research and development because at its core, it allows organizations to create algorithms that adapt as data evolves over time. The end result is a new generation of flexible applications that adjust to changing […]

Mobile Security 2015: The Enterprise at Risk To further simplify and secure the management of Apple devices, JAMF Software this week launched its Bushel cloud service. Charles Edge, product manager for Bushel at JAMF Software, says that by making a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application available, all the infrastructure requirements previously required to deploy IT management software […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 The Linux Foundation announced today that the Xen Collaborative Project has made available an update to Xen Project hypervisor that now supports 32 and 64-bit ARM processors. Support for ARM processors in version 4.5 of the Xen Project hypervisor is a critical element of bringing servers based […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Mobile computing and mainframes may be at the two farthest ends of the IT spectrum. But as more people invoke e-commerce applications on mobile devices, they are driving a corresponding spike in the number of transaction being processed on mainframes. That’s why IBM this week unveiled the […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 The sad fact of the matter is that when it comes to managing a project, most people rely on a spreadsheet rather than an actual project management application. But now that there is a project management application in the cloud that is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office 365 […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers Business intelligence (BI) software has long been used to discern patterns and trends but now TIBCO Software wants to automate much of that process via a version of TIBCO Spotfire that runs in the cloud. TIBCO today announced the general availability of Recommendations for […]

Seven Must-Have Features for Great Mobile Apps Looking to reduce much of the complexity associated with mobile computing in the enterprise, Citrix today released an upgrade to its XenMobile suite of mobile computing applications, making them simpler to manage and create business process workflows around. Manoj Raisinghani, vice president of product marketing for Mobile Platforms […]

Security Trends 2015: Developments in Exploits and Evasion Enthusiasm for Docker containers continues to mount across the cloud, and as the number of Docker containers continues to multiply, this creates some security challenges. To address this issue, Cloud Passage, a provider of software-defined security software, announced today that it is adding support for Docker containers. […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years For the last few years, Citrix has been crafting a software-defined data center (SDDC) strategy that it is extending today via the acquisition of Sanbolic, a provider of software-defined storage management software. Revealed at the Citrix Summit 2015 conference, Sanbolic CEO Momchil Michailov says the […]

Millennials Expect Brands to Use Their Unique Data for Hyper-Targeted Experiences At the National Retail Federation 2015 (NRF) conference today, WibiData unveiled a framework for rapidly personalizing data stored in Hadoop that promises to dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to create a unique customer experience using Big Data. While one of the […]

Five Ways Contact Centers Use Analytics to Make Smarter Business Decisions With more organizations focused on modernizing their DevOps process, usage of the open source Jenkins continuous integration framework has risen sharply. Looking to provide an enterprise-class management platform around Jenkins, CloudBees has created the CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center. Steven Harris, senior vice president of […]