Mike Vizard

Even when IT organizations do rarely gain a glimpse into what’s occurring on the wide area network (WAN), chances are they don’t have the expertise needed to decipher what to do about that information. With that issue in mind, Exinda has created what it describes as the industry’s first WAN orchestration platform. Ryan Tollofson, director […]

Five Reasons a Business Needs APIs (and an API Driven Strategy) The advent of network functions virtualization (NFV) is clearly the next big thing in networking. Rather than having to deploy a dizzying array of physical appliances to manage every little network service, NFV turns those functions into software that can run on standard commodity […]

Executive Insights for Building Trust in the Cloud Rather than simply changing the location where a particular piece of technology is deployed and moving it into someone else’s data center, many organizations are looking for something that actually behaves more like a turnkey service. With that issue in mind, IBM today announced that it plans […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes For some time now, organizations have been investing in separate data visualization tools to make sense of the data that resides inside a business intelligence or analytics application. Usually they do this because the visualization tools provided by the application vendor have been lacking. Now, BI vendors are moving to […]

Seven Steps to Prepare for BYOD While the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon has clearly been embraced by a broad swath of end users, managing devices that are not owned by the company presents internal IT organizations with some major challenges. Looking to help IT organizations address those issues, Absolute Software has released version […]

Key Features to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Backup and Restore Solutions Once upon a time, it was enough to be able to just back up a file and then eventually recover it. But with businesses now more dependent on IT than ever, any time there is an issue, users need to be able to […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Ever since Oracle gained control over the MySQL relational database by acquiring Sun Microsystems, doubts have been raised about the company’s level of commitment to an open source database that many see as a rival to Oracle’s namesake RDBMS. In a move that may help silence some of those critics, […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps Following the recent acquisition of Syclo, customers of SAP have been waiting for the integration of mobile asset management technology into the SAP mobile computing portfolio. SAP Mobile Platform 3.0 marks the arrival of that integration. This release unifies the mobile computing software that SAP […]

Top Five Trends in Network Forensics Adoption Gathering threat intelligence is one thing, but being able to actually act on it in a meaningful way is quite another. In a move that promises to make threat intelligence software more useful, this week at the Check Point Experience 2014 conference, Check Point Software Technologies announced ThreatCloud […]

How the Internet of Things Will Transform the Data Center As IT organizations are coming to terms with the fact that they will need to manage multiple cloud computing platforms, HP is looking to shift the conversation toward how IT is going to be managed in the age of the cloud. HP this week unveiled […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps Given the simple fact that most salespeople should be spending the majority of their day outside the office with customers, it only makes sense that Salesforce.com would extend the reach of its Salesforce1 application service to the smartphone. But many organizations may find the degree […]

Seven Steps to Prepare for BYOD Most providers of IT systems management software were caught off guard by the rise in popularity of mobile computing across the enterprise. The end result is that many IT organizations have acquired separate management frameworks to manage mobile computing devices. In an ideal world, IT organizations would only have […]