Mike Vizard

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years For the past several years, Unisys has been trying to bridge the gap between its mainframe systems and a new generation of servers that run Microsoft Windows Server operating systems. With the release of version 5.0 of the Unisys Agile Business (AB) Suite application development […]

Five Predictions for Hybrid Cloud Environments in 2015 As IT organizations begin to more aggressively build private clouds in 2015, many of them will be looking for a distribution of the open source OpenStack that is more than just a collection of the raw bits that make up the cloud management framework. To that end, […]

Five Ways Contact Centers Use Analytics to Make Smarter Business Decisions In terms of Big Data, the open source Apache Storm project has been picking up a lot of momentum because it provides a way to analyze massive amount of streaming data in memory. Now RapidMiner is making it possible for its RapidMiner Streams predictive […]

Eight Ways BYOD Is Transforming IT While allowing employees to bring their own devices to work is often a popular idea, the mechanics involved in actually deploying corporate applications on those devices can be quite complex. Good Technology this week moved to reduce that complexity with the introduction of Good Work with Data, which makes […]

Earthquakes and the Modern Data Center Infoblox today announced it is giving IT organizations more control over distributed data center environments via its domain name server (DNS) appliance. Infoblox is adding a global server load balancing capability to its DNS appliances, which makes it simpler for IT organizations to route traffic to the most available […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence With the rise of NoSQL databases, IT organizations now frequently face the challenge of having to manage multiple SQL and NoSQL databases, which is a problem that seems to get worse every time a developer decides to create a new application. To help IT organizations streamline the […]

IT Industry Forecast: What to Expect in 2015 With pricing for workstations having dropped considerably over the years, the number of organizations willing to pay a premium for systems that are considerably faster than a desktop PC has increased. Now Hewlett-Packard wants to extend the appeal of workstations into the realm of mobile computing while […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years After deciding to focus its efforts squarely on the mainframe at the end of 2014, Compuware is starting 2015 off with the launch today of Topaz, a data virtualization framework that makes mainframe data more accessible. Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley says that with the vast […]

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 Hewlett-Packard today unveiled a bevy of new displays, including an HP Zvr Virtual Reality Display that is designed to make it simpler to explore content using 3D glasses and a stylus. In addition, HP introduced its first curved display, which serves to increase the overall field of vision when […]

Five Tips for Taking Control of Cloud Chaos The trouble with the consumerization of IT is that there are now so many places to put files that most people can’t find a particular file when they actually need it. Looking to bring some order to that chaos, Salesforce.com today unfurled Salesforce Files Connect, which leverages […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments In a move that promises to make it simpler to both query and store archived data, Teradata announced today that it has acquired Rainstor, a provider of archiving software that runs on top of Hadoop. Chris Twogood, vice president of product and services marketing at Teradata, says […]

2015 Tech Trends: A Critical Crossroad for IT With application programming interfaces (APIs) increasingly becoming the tie that binds the enterprise together, understanding the patterns of data flowing through those APIs has become significantly more important. To help enterprise IT organizations get a better handle on those APIs, Apigee today enhanced the analytics capabilities it […]