Mike Vizard

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 At the IBM Impact 2014 conference this week, IBM provided a glimpse into two strategy initiatives that ultimately promise to change how data is consumed and managed across the enterprise. Looking to give end users more direct control over data, IBM previewed a Blue Insight offering through […]

Five Apps to Boost Worker Efficiency A war for supremacy has been waged in the customer relationship management (CRM) space that is ultimately a battle over which business unit CRM benefits the most. SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin contends that Salesforce.com was essentially designed for the sales managers rather than salespeople. This matters because unless a […]

Cloud Security: Technologies You Need to Safely Use the Cloud One of the bigger challenges IT organizations face today is that no one is really quite sure how many applications are being used by their organization thanks to the rise of shadow IT. In fact, most IT people generally underestimate how prevalent usage of unsanctioned […]

Executive Insights for Building Trust in the Cloud One of the things that IT organizations do perhaps like best about cloud computing is that it’s much easier now to be part of a larger IT community. In the past, IT folks inside any organization were pretty much on their own. With the rise of IT […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 Although the Solaris operating system may not be as dominant as it once was following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle in 2010, from a technology perspective, Solaris is still one of the most advanced platforms in the enterprise. Today Oracle extended the capabilities of that […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes TIBCO Software shored up its footprints in both the business intelligence and data integration spaces this week with the acquisition of Jaspersoft. As a company that made its reputation in the BI space with an open source application that was coupled with advanced data integration tools, Ivan Casanova, vice president […]

Mobile Development Trends for 2014 The line between who is and who is not a developer is getting blurrier by the day. In fact, demand for mobile applications is reaching a point where end users are running out of patience waiting for developers to create those apps. To address that specific issue, Modo Labs has […]

The Real Life of a Data Scientist Many IT organizations are aware of the fact that in terms of the applications their end users actually use, the return on investment in Microsoft Office has always been a relatively expensive proposition. Now SoftWatch Technologies is making available the tools to prove it. SoftWatch today launched a […]

Heartbleed: Eight Tips and Strategies for Keeping Safe History is full of examples where a crisis leads to some form of substantial progress that creates a much larger benefit for all concerned. It looks like the Heartbleed Bug that exploited a vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic software library through which hackers could create backdoors into […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 One of the challenges that end users regularly face is that in order to really analyze anything, they need to be able to blend data from multiple sources that is often stored in various incompatible formats. The problem is that it often takes a lot longer to extract […]

Tensions Between IT and Business Leadership Force New Approach to Delivering Technology Many organizations these days spend a lot of time navigating between ERP and Salesforce.com customer relationship management (CRM) applications, which generally involves a lot of complex data integration work. Things would be much simpler if the ERP applications and Salesforce applications shared access […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths After selling its x86 server business to Lenovo, many people have been questioning IBM’s overall commitment to hardware. To put those questions to rest, IBM today unveiled a new family of servers based on a new IBM POWER8 processor architecture. At the core of the new offering are five […]