Mike Vizard

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Organizations of all sizes are making major IT investments that they hope will lead to better decisions being made up and down the line, but how all that data is presented has become a major issue. Instead of relying on spreadsheets, organizations are now investing in data visualization tools designed […]

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps More than a few organizations have made big bets on software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications only to discover that end users are not embracing them as extensively as they might have expected. To help organizations get a better handle on the pace and extent to which cloud applications are being […]

How the Cloud Is Changing the Way We Work Building private clouds becomes infinitely more complex with the introduction of multiple types of Big Data. As a result, much of the IT infrastructure that is currently deployed inside the enterprise simply isn’t up to the task. Looking to rectify that problem, BlueData today launched Epic […]

Six Ways Flash Is Changing the Storage Landscape With the rise of PCI Express (PCIe) on servers, many IT organizations have started to plug Flash memory into servers to replace hard disk drives as either forms of tier zero or tier one primary storage. Now A3Cube wants to make it possible to treat all that […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Looking to make analytics capabilities enabled by a supercomputer available to the average business user, IBM today announced a Watson Analytics service that provides access to a range of predictive and cognitive analytics applications. The Watson Analytics service leverages the speech recognition capabilities of the […]

Five Ways Mobile and Cloud are Helping Build Better Bonds with Customers In mobile computing, the core IT issue shouldn’t be so much the management of the devices as much as the workflow they enable. Citrix, for example, has been expanding its definition of enterprise mobile management (EMM) to include not just the devices, but […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence Many of the principles that apply to manufacturing supply chains can also be applied to data management. The real challenge is figuring out how to efficiently coordinate all the sources so the business can actually profit from acquiring it all in the first place. With that goal […]

Eight Signs Your Team Is in Trouble Most salespeople spend a fair amount of their time these days managing customer interactions via a customer relationship management (CRM) application such as Salesforce.com. The problem is that most of the interaction with those customers takes place outside the context of the CRM applications using, for example, traditional […]

Five Ways Mobile and Cloud are Helping Build Better Bonds with Customers One of the lesser-appreciated aspects of mobile computing is the impact it is having on how the applications are developed, deployed and managed across the enterprise. Historically, all those functions were managed in isolation. With the rise of mobile application development platforms (MADPs), […]

Five Steps to Prepare for the Global Intercloud Over the last couple of years, Jenkins has emerged as a critical open source tool for managing the continuous integration process that enables most agile application development efforts. One of the primary forces behind the success of Jenkins is CloudBees which, besides providing support for Jenkins, also […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game With the number and types of physical and virtual servers in the enterprise rapidly expanding, many IT organizations are looking for ways to centralize the management of them all. Rather than having to swivel between multiple management consoles, a management framework that can address the broad […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives With the rise of Docker containers as an alternative to virtual machines in Linux environments, the way applications have been traditionally managed is now being challenged. Because containers are designed to enable organizations to more easily support thousands of workloads, existing application lifecycle management (ALM) platforms can’t rise […]