Mike Vizard

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps When it comes to anything to do with the digital economy, most business executives are looking for ways to keep their options open. They want to be able to experiment with new business models and services without having to make a major commitment. With that […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years Riverbed Technology today extended the level of control IT organizations can gain over wide area networks (WAN) by incorporating a policy engine into its line of SteelHead WAN optimization appliances. The upgrade was announced today at the Riverbed FORCE 2014 conference. Amol Kabe, vice president […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives As IT continues to be increasingly complex to manage, more organizations are looking to automate as many management functions as possible. The challenge is that many of them don’t have the budget to do anything more than write a handful of scripts themselves. Moving to take that issue […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence One of the paradoxes IT organizations often face is that it is much easier for end users to invoke search engines to find external data than it is to find anything stored within the confines of the enterprise. To tackle this problem, ThoughtSpot has developed a relational […]

How the Cloud Is Changing the Way We Work Microsoft this week at the Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014 conference announced significant expansions to its portfolio of tools for managing and analyzing Big Data running on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Herain Oberoi, director of product management for Microsoft Data Platform, says Azure Data Factory is available […]

How to Implement a Successful Customer Experience Program Massive investments are being made to improve overall customer experience, because companies of all sizes are now keenly aware that satisfied customers make it easier to cross-sell and upsell new products and services. The challenge has been finding the customer support software that enables organizations to interact […]

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps IT organizations are increasingly coming to terms with having to include Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of the extended enterprise. The challenge is that not many of them have a lot visibility into AWS or the applications that run on it. To address that issue, 2nd Watch, […]

How the Cloud Is Changing the Way We Work As a subsidiary of a multi-billion-dollar Tata Group conglomerate based in India, Tata Communications is not without access to financial resources. Today, Tata Communications announced it has created a global IZO cloud network based on 50 data centers and partnerships with 20 providers of network services. […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Mobile Security Challenges Securing mobile computing applications and devices has been a major challenge for IT environments in terms of both time and expense. Looking to bring mobile computing back into the larger enterprise security fold, Check Point Software today introduced a mobile security offering that can be centrally managed from […]

Five Cloud Storage Tips and Tricks for CIOs This week at the NetApp Insight 2014 conference, NetApp moved to unify storage management across hybrid cloud computing environments starting with the release of Cloud ONTAP for Amazon Web Services (AWS). George Kurian, executive vice president of product operations at NetApp, says that Cloud ONTAP gives enterprise […]

Third-Quarter IT Reality Check — Budgets, Hiring, Trends As far as programming languages go, PHP is still the primary one used to build most Web applications in the enterprise. Today, Zend Technologies announced that PHP is likely to continue in that role for some time to come with the release of a Zend 8 upgrade […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis Before being acquired by IBM, Cloudant was pretty committed to providing an implementation of a NoSQL database based on the open source Apache CouchDB project available only as a cloud service. Starting today, Cloudant is not only making an on-premise Cloudant Local version of its database available, it […]