Mike Vizard

The downside of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is that it creates a lot of organizational confusion, ranging from who pays for the phone bill when employees use their own phones to how to enforce compliance policies. Looking to comprehensively address those issues, Dell today announced it has partnered with Vonage to offer […]

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps With the network perimeter increasingly becoming too porous to defend, IT organizations have been looking for new ways to defend individual applications and the data they contain. With that goal in mind, Hewlett-Packard today announced HP Application Defender, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that centralizes the management of application […]

Five Steps to Prepare for the Global Intercloud Most financial professionals spend a lot more time gathering data than actually analyzing it. Looking to reduce the amount of time it takes financial analysts to gather data, Adaptive Insights unfurled an update to its business analytics application that adds integration technologies to simplify pulling data into […]

Five Ways to Ensure Remote Workers Are Sharing and Accessing Files Securely As a videoconferencing application accessed via the cloud, Fuze is gaining a fair amount of momentum. It delivers all the benefits of telepresence without the infrastructure costs and headaches because it is a cloud service. Today Fuze extended the reach of its namesake […]

Five Steps to Prepare for the Global Intercloud Within the enterprise, open source Apache Cassandra databases have been gaining a fair amount of momentum as an alternative platform for running transaction processing applications. Rather than having to harness multiple relational databases to support those applications, Cassandra is a NoSQL database that scales significantly higher in […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges Given the general shortage of talent when it comes to all things Big Data, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to see vendors jockeying to make Big Data expertise available as a service. With that goal in mind, Teradata this week acquired Think Big Analytics, a […]

How the Internet of Things Will Transform the Data Center Cisco today announced that it is significantly expanding the scope of its server offerings with the introduction of a new architecture for cloud-scale environments and the extension of its existing platform with the introduction of Cisco UCS Mini platform for smaller-scale applications. In addition, Cisco […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps Managing the finance department typically involves studying multiple reports with the hope that some level of additional insight can be gained that helps improve the performance of the business. The trouble is that all of those reports are generated by different applications, which makes correlating […]

Five Best Practices for Customer Experience Management Programs A big problem for retail stores is creating a solid digital marketing strategy. Brick-and-mortar stores often don’t have the technology savvy of their online-vendor cousins, so they struggle with creating a seamless framework that allows them to consistently reach customers both in store and online. With that […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives With increased usage of Apple Macintosh systems across the enterprise, usage of desktop virtualization technologies to run Windows on those devices has certainly increased. Mostly, it’s been individual users that have opted to deploy desktop virtualizations on those Macintoshes with or without the help of the IT department. […]

Top Five Epic Fails of Enterprise Endpoint Backup With more application workloads being run directly in memory, managing all the different forms of memory that can be used as persistent storage is shaping up to be the next data management challenge. To address this issue, PernixData has raised an additional $35 million in funding to […]

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology When it comes to governance and compliance, the biggest issue facing IT organizations is often simply trying to figure out who owns the data that is being accessed. To solve that problem, Whitebox Security, within its WhiteOPS governance software, makes available crowdsourcing techniques […]