Mike Vizard

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users The campaign to put Apache Hadoop at the center of the data universe in the enterprise got a little stronger this week with the release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.2, which increases security among its other improvements. The introduction of a Cloudera Director, a tool that makes […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off With the growing interest in all things Big Data and Hadoop, the way data is stored and processed in the enterprise is rapidly evolving. Today Microsoft extended its Big Data reach in the cloud by adding support for real-time analytics running on an instance of […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game In a major move that bodes well for IT organizations that need to support applications that run in both Linux and Windows environments, Microsoft today announced it will support containers from Docker as a lightweight alternative to virtual machines on the next iteration of Windows Server. […]

Five Myths Holding Your Security Program Back Dell made an effort to more firmly establish itself as a major provider of Next-Generation Firewalls (NGF) in the enterprise with the introduction today of a Dell SuperMassive 9800 firewall capable of inspecting packets at a rate of 20 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps). Dmitriy Ayrapetov, director of product management for […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game At the VMworld 2014 Europe conference, VMware today extended the reach of its cloud management framework into the realms of DevOps and compliance management. The new VMware vRealize Code Stream offering makes it simpler to deliver frequent software releases and updates using the VMware vRealize Operations […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game In many organizations, the management of distributed computing systems and mainframes has historically been a conversation roughly equivalent to the dialogue that exists between inhabitants of Venus and Mars. But with more instances of Linux showing up on mainframes, IBM is trying to bring those two […]

Millennials Expect Brands to Use Their Unique Data for Hyper-Targeted Experiences At the Dreamforce 2014 conference today, Salesforce.com announced a significant expansion of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) application reach into the realm of analytics. With the unfurling of Wave, Stephanie Buscemi, senior vice president for Salesforce Analytics Cloud, says Salesforce.com has launched an analytics cloud application that not […]

Eight Ways to Put Hadoop to Work in Any IT Department Despite the fact that, from a technical perspective, Hadoop is closely aligned with the MapReduce interface for accessing data stored in Hadoop, the primary mechanism for interacting with all that data is still going to be SQL, which for all intents and purposes is […]

Top Five Epic Fails of Enterprise Endpoint Backup As part of a broad effort to reinvent itself, BMC Software this week added advanced analytics capabilities to its suite of IT operations management software, while at the same time revamping its Remedy service desk software. In addition, BMC has created a series of Smartflow Solutions that […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game With the rapid rise of containers as a lightweight alternative to virtual machines in the enterprise, finding a way to manage this new form of virtualization has become a priority in Linux environments. With that issue in mind, Docker this week acquired Koality, a provider of […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps Deploying applications has never been as simple as it should be, but with the rise of mobile computing, the average enterprise IT organization is more challenged than ever. Not only are there a lot more applications to be deployed across a broad range of devices, […]

Five Ways to Scale Agile for the Enterprise As more businesses become dependent on the Web to interact with customers, many of them have begun to realize that they don’t have as much visibility into business Web applications as they need. To address that issue, New Relic today unveiled a bevy of new offerings at […]