Mike Vizard

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence Most IT organizations operate under the assumption that achieving maximum application performance requires a relational database. But increasingly, a handful of NoSQL database alternatives have shown that they can more efficiently meet the most pressing application performance demands. One of those offerings comes from Aerospike, which today […]

Five Tips for Taking Control of Cloud Chaos EMC this week extended the reach of its file transfer and synchronization software to any SMB or CIFS-based storage offering as part of an effort to bridge the divide between on-premise and cloud-based systems. Jeetu Patel, general manager for the Syncplicity business unit at EMC, says that […]

Five Things that Field Workers Hate and How to Fix Them Five months after initially forming a broad-ranging mobile computing alliance with Apple, the first applications stemming from that effort were introduced this week by IBM. Aimed at the airline, insurance and telecommunications sectors, the three applications fulfill a pledge IBM made to develop native […]

You Can’t Be My Cloud Vendor Until… Six Things You Need to Know Looking to provide organizations moving to embrace Microsoft Office 365 in the cloud with additional security, Microsoft and Palerra, a provider of a LORIC cloud service that provides configuration management, threat detection, predictive analytics and incident response capabilities, announced a new partnership […]

2015 Tech Trends: A Critical Crossroad for IT Application developers these days are creating a major IT management challenge by firing up new application programming interfaces (APIs) that need to be managed. To help bring some order to that chaos, 3scale today launched APIcast, a free API gateway service that IT organizations can use to […]

Five Networking Predictions for 2015 In recent months, the rise of containers as a lighter-weight alternative to virtual machines has emerged as a major challenger to VMware, the dominant provider of virtual machines inside the enterprise. In response, VMware has already announced that it will support the management of containers from Docker alongside its virtual […]

2015 Tech Trends: A Critical Crossroad for IT As part of an effort to make updates to operating systems running in cloud computing environments much simpler, Canonical today launched “snappy” Ubuntu Core, a new rendition of Ubuntu that replaces the traditional cumbersome approach to adding updates to an operating system with a simpler transactional model […]

You Can’t Be My Cloud Vendor Until… Six Things You Need to Know As part of an effort to ensure that implementations of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment are consistent with one another, the Linux Foundation, in conjunction with EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Pivotal, SAP and VMware, announced today the formation of the Cloud […]

You Can’t Be My Cloud Vendor Until… Six Things You Need to Know Knowledge Vault today announced the general availability of its namesake analytics-as-a-service platform that provides more insight into how documents are being consumed and shared beyond anything IT organizations could hope to accomplish on premise. Knowledge Vault CEO Christian Ehrenthal says that starting […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center Making the case that the time has come for building a more efficient way to manage data center environments, Mesosphere today announced what it is calling the first data center operating system (DCOS) that turns everything in the data center into a shared programmable resource. Mesosphere CEO Florian […]

Top Five DevOps and Ops Team Challenges for 2015 As a provider of change management system relational databases, DBmaestro has witnessed how much agile development methodologies have changed the cadence of the application release cycle across the enterprise. Now DBmaestro wants to help accelerate that process by making available an open set of application programming […]

Agile Federal Data Centers: The Drive to Thrive At the DockerCon Europe 2014 conference today, Docker significantly expanded its enterprise ambitions with the launch of the Docker Hub repository that can now be deployed on premise and with the preview of three Docker orchestration services that are under development. Available in the form of alpha […]