Mike Vizard

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users What makes Hadoop really compelling from an analytics perspective is the simple fact that it allows schemas to be dynamically formed on each data read. That means that instead of IT spending most of their time cleaning up data to fit within the context of some […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths After acquiring Force10 Networks in 2011, Dell has been trying to make itself a force to be reckoned with in enterprise networking. To extend that effort, Dell today unveiled a new fabric switch that it claims is the industry’s densest, alongside a new controller that simplifies the process associated […]

Five Database Technology ‘Faceoffs’ Explained For as long as anyone in IT can remember, building a data warehouse involved moving massive amounts of data into a centralized environment that made it possible to launch queries against it. Today SAP is moving to reinvent data warehousing with the release of version 7.4 of the SAP Business […]

Top 10 IT Performance Management Predictions for 2014 Dell yet again signaled its intentions to compete more aggressively in the analytics space with the acquisition today of StatSoft. With 1,500 customers, StatSoft is the second major analytics acquisition that Dell has made since acquiring Quest Software. In 2012, just prior to being acquired by Dell, […]

Five Apps to Boost Worker Efficiency When it comes to customer relationship management (CRM) applications, there seems to be a lot of disagreement over what the purpose of the app is between the people using the software and the people who actually paid for it. Senior managers generally view CRM as a way to gain […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users A lot of IT organizations understand how something can be much greater than the sum of its parts. In the case of next-generation business process management (BPM), many IT organizations are going to be surprised to discover how in-memory computing, predictive analytics, Big Data and open […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users While Hadoop may make Big Data more accessible, the setting up of a Hadoop cluster on commodity servers is not particularly simple. To help IT organizations automate that process, Continuuity today announces it is contributing Loom, cluster management software that automates the process of provisioning a […]

Five Digitally Vulnerable Areas Your Business May be Overlooking IBM moved today to take a bigger bite out of fraud by combining various pieces of software and services into a common framework that is simpler to deploy. Rick Hoene, worldwide fraud solutions leader for IBM Global Services, says that while IBM has been delivering technologies […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users A campaign to put Hadoop at the center of the enterprise just got a shot in the arm this week in the form of $160 million in additional funding being raised by Cloudera. Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly says a large portion of those funds, a significant […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 Unified communications has historically been fairly complex to deploy and manage. But with the rise of managed services and implementations that can be more easily deployed and managed, that may finally be changing. At the Enterprise Connect 2014 conference, Unified Office today announced version 3.0 of Total […]

Seven Principles of an Agile Enterprise As a NoSQL database, Couchbase has emerged as an open source option for organizations looking for a platform that supports Web applications that need to scale. Now KuroBase wants to make it easier to build and manage those applications on top of a cloud service using Couchbase, a derivative […]

Top 10 IT Performance Management Predictions for 2014 SolarWinds today extended the reach of its application management tools to provide both greater support for Microsoft Exchange and the ability to monitor Web services based on application programming interfaces such as Javascript Object Notation (JSON) or the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Craig McDonald, director of […]