Mike Vizard

Harnessing the Power of Big Data with Geospatial Mapping At the Splunk User 2014 Conference today, Splunk unveiled a bevy of new offerings that are intended to make machine data more accessible to the average end user than ever. Splunk unveiled Splunk MINT Express, a cloud service that makes it easier to build analytics applications […]

Five Ways Mobile and Cloud are Helping Build Better Bonds with Customers Symantec today announced that it is pulling together various investments in mobile computing to create Symantec Mobility: Suite, a collection of offerings that address mobile device and application management along with security. Cheryl Tang, senior principal product manager for enterprise mobility at Symantec, […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Most security attacks can be readily identified after the fact, once it becomes clear that some set of credentials is being used to access files in a way that they normally are not. The ideal goal would be to identify those patterns of abnormal behavior before a security breach can […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges Rather than having to switch database platforms to drive the convergence of transaction processing and analytics, IBM is making the case for a new faster version of DB2 with Blu Acceleration that not only runs some queries a thousand times faster, but also now fully supports SAP applications. […]

Six Ways Flash Is Changing the Storage Landscape One of the first fruits of the expanding number of partnerships that IBM is driving via the recently formed OpenPOWER alliance was born today as part of a significant expansion of the IBM Power Series server lineup. Leveraging GPU accelerator processors from NVIDIA that now run on […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives Oracle will be offering a lot more integrated IT automation soon. Speaking at the Oracle Open World 2014 conference this week, John Fowler, Oracle executive vice president, says that one of the issues that makes IT complex to manage is that separate tools are required to manage firmware, […]

Holographs, Liquid-State and DNA: The Future of Data Storage With the amount of data that IT organizations are being asked to manage rising considerably, backing up all that data has become a significant challenge. Looking to provide IT organizations with some additional headroom, Symantec today introduced a NetBackup 5330 appliance that can store up to […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka this week outlined a new open source Big Data initiative, while at the same time pledging to work more closely with Oracle. Speaking at the Oracle Open World 2014 conference after abruptly leaving SAP earlier this year, Sikka says Infosys will […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence One of the limitations of the SAP HANA in-memory platform is that it’s a single-tenant platform that doesn’t lend itself to the efficient usage of servers typically associated with multitenant environments running in the cloud. To address this issue, SAP is making use of database containers running […]

There’s no shortage of machine data floating around enterprise IT organizations. The challenge is finding a way to easily make sense of it all. With the launch today of the fourth generation of its Wire Data Analytics Platform, ExtraHop is moving to aggregate all that data via a new Open Data Context application programming interface. […]

Five Ways Cloud Changes Will Impact You Oracle this week outlined a cloud computing strategy that seeks to bring together all the major components of the cloud under the control of a single federated entity. Speaking at the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference, newly named Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd says that while the company’s primary focus […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps It’s hard to build mobile computing applications in the enterprise because there are not only so many data sources to integrate, the application itself needs to be able to work offline to minimize telecommunications costs. Rising to address those twin issues, Alpha Software today released […]