Mike Vizard

Key Security Considerations for Enterprise Cloud Deployments At the IBM Insight 2014 conference today, IBM flexed its data management and analytics muscles with the introduction of three new cloud services and a new fraud detection application. Beth Smith, IBM general manager for Big Data, says the new cloud services lay the foundation for creating a […]

Ten Tips to Help Businesses Prepare for Severe Weather One of the first places most organizations think to embrace cloud computing is backup and recovery. After all, storing massive amounts of data on premise that is rarely accessed doesn’t often make a lot of financial sense. The challenge is finding a way to effectively transfer […]

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps Today Canonical made available upgrades to its Ubuntu distribution of Linux, which adds support for both Docker containers and the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment alongside the latest release of the OpenStack cloud management framework. Mark Baker, cloud and server product manager for Canonical, says that […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence SAP this week showcased how the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform has the potential to radically transform the physical contours of the data center in a way that makes enterprise IT environments a lot easier to manage. At the SAP TechEd && d-code conference this week, SAP […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 One of the more complex challenges that organizations face in the era of the cloud is providing a consistent user experience across multiple applications running inside and out of their data centers. To address that challenge, ASG Software Solutions created CloudFactory to provide a unified workspace across all […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Splunk this week moved to make it easier to aggregate data from various industrial automation systems via an alliance with Kepware Technologies, a provider of interoperability software for such systems. Kepware has developed a plug-in for its KEPServerEX platform that will make it possible to store […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps The Internet of Things (IoT) has clearly captured almost everyone’s imagination, but what many people forget is that all the data that IoT systems generate are only a means to an end. The real goal is to turn all that data into something resembling actionable intelligence. With that […]

Key Security Considerations for Enterprise Cloud Deployments Microsoft today made several extensions to its cloud computing strategy designed to make it possible to run larger virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The company is also introducing a Microsoft Cloud Platform System based on an appliance from Dell that IT organizations deploy on premise to […]

Five Ways Big Data Can Turn Health Data into Actionable Insights In an effort to simplify the management of all the data strewn across the enterprise, Oracle has launched Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management 12c. Jeff Pollock, vice president of product management for Oracle Data Integration, says Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management 12c was designed to aggregate […]

Big Data Security Risk in the Enterprise: The Pitfalls of Hadoop While there has never been any shortage of file systems in the enterprise, it is clear the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) has been adopted at a fairly rapid rate and is obviously a leader in the category. In recognition of that new reality, […]

Big Data Certification and Training Options on the Rise When it comes to Big Data, much of the debate is starting to shift toward a classic build versus buy argument that is so characteristic of just about every other IT sector. At the Strata + Hadoop World 2014 conference this week, Platfora made a case […]

Ten Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop Actian today launched a free community edition of its SQL-compatible Big Data platform for Hadoop at the Strata + Hadoop World 2014 conference. The Analytics Platform – Express Hadoop SQL Edition from Actian provides up to 500GB of storage and no limit on the number of […]