Mike Vizard

Bandwidth and Network Speeds Exploding with Hyperscale Deployments Joyent this week announced two open source initiatives through which it is making it possible to securely deploy Docker containers without requiring the use of hypervisors. A new Linux Branded Zones (LXz) enables Linux applications, including those running in Docker Containers, to natively run on a layer […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years With more workloads than ever running in public and private cloud computing environments, capacity management has become a major challenge for many IT organizations. In recognition of that simple fact, BMC Software today released version 10 of its TrueSight Capacity Optimization software that adds a […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years Just when everyone thought the IT industry was going forward into the world of Docker containers, one of the early backers is now outlining an alternative. While being careful to reiterate that there is still a place for Docker containers, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi says […]

Five Networking Predictions for 2015 One of the more frustrating things that plague IT organizations is that when issues are initially discovered by end users, it often takes IT longer to pinpoint the source of the problem than it does to actually fix what’s wrong. Looking to address that issue, Entuity today released version 2.0 […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off At the Discover 2014 conference in Barcelona today, Hewlett-Packard announced a raft of new offerings aimed at making it simpler to tap into the potential benefits of Big Data. Starting with a new database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering based on HP Vertica columnar database and the Intelligent […]

Five Ways to Prepare Your Network for the Onslaught of Faster Wi-Fi Devices With users now carrying anywhere from two to four mobile computing devices into the office, it should come as no surprise that wireless access points are being overwhelmed by all the network traffic being generated. To alleviate that congestion, Broadcom, Brocade, Delta […]

Harnessing the Power of Big Data with Geospatial Mapping With more organizations relying on JavaScript to build complex applications, manipulating large amounts of data has become a significant challenge. To address that issue, Telerik has released an update to its JavaScript framework that adds new data management widgets. The latest version of the Kendo UI […]

A Guide to Switching Development Teams in the Midst of a Project They say to one degree or another every organization is now a software company; they just don’t say much about how to actually manage the development of that software. Jama Software has unfurled an Agile Workflow Design service based on Jama Integration Hub […]

Big Data Certification and Training Options on the Rise There’s a massive amount of pressure on IT organizations to support any number of real-time business processes. The problem is that the vast majority of the applications and systems they have in place were designed around batch-processing architectures that don’t support real-time processing. Looking to provide […]

Seven Must-Have Features for Great Mobile Apps When it comes to mobile computing in the enterprise, the real issue may not be the devices or even the applications that run on them, but rather the impact they have on workflow across the enterprise. Whether being used externally by customers or internally by employees, mobile computing […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off While organizations of just about any size have an interest in tapping into the potential of Big Data, the vast majority of them won’t have the resources required to actually do that any time soon unless they get some external help. With that issue in […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off One of the attributes of most advanced analytics applications is that they assume the organization or person invoking them actually knows which questions are worth asking. Most organizations, however, are still trying to figure out the questions they should be asking. With that goal in […]