Mike Vizard

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 Data doesn’t usually start flowing in one direction or another of its own accord; some action needs to be taken that enables that movement of data to occur. With the immutable law of physics in mind, iboss Network Security has created a Secure Web Gateway that makes […]

Seven Ways “As a Service” Can Benefit You Once an issue is discovered, it usually doesn’t take the average IT organization very long to resolve that particular problem. What can take forever, though, is actually discovering the real source of the problem. Given all the interdependencies that exist between the components of an IT ecosystem, […]

Seven Ways “As a Service” Can Benefit You As a technology in the enterprise, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments still have a long way to go before they see mass adoption. For the most part, IT organizations continue to rely on application servers rather than opting to deploy applications on PaaS environments that abstract away a fair […]

Up-and-Coming Open Source Projects for the Enterprise Open source software usually arrives after a technology has matured to a point where there are developers with enough knowledge to sustain an open source implementation. But as open source software continues to mature, the amount of time that process takes is narrowing considerably. A case in point […]

Data Center Applications and the Cloud: What You Need to Know With the release of the spring 2014 edition of Informatica Cloud, users will have access to graphical tools to directly design and map data integration flows between applications. According to Ajay Gandhi, vice president of product marketing for Informatica Cloud, the increased sophistication of […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis In a move that takes open source to the next logical level, Red Hat today announced a suite of open source business process management (BPM) software based on the business rules that it developed to run on top of its JBoss middleware. Phil Simpson, principal product marketing manager […]

Top Five Industries Impacted by Data Encryption Challenges in 2014 Given all the high-profile security breaches these days, the subject of encryption for all the wrong reasons has never been more popular. While there’s some debate as to whether encryption provides the level of security it was once thought, given the debate about backdoors that […]

Data Center Applications and the Cloud: What You Need to Know Trying to implement raw open source bits and using a distribution of something that has been packaged up so that it’s consumable by the average enterprise present two totally different experiences. In much the same way that Linux did not see mainstream adoption until […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy In a sign that hyper-scale computing is on its way to the enterprise, Accenture this week announced an alliance with IPsoft, a provider of expert system software for automating the management of IT. Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty says IT environments in the age of the cloud are becoming […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 For a variety of reasons, backup and recovery over the years has not only become more complex, it’s become a lot more expensive. With the addition of multiple types of new platforms across the enterprise, backup and recovery offerings for each platform have proliferated. Acronis wants to […]

Seven New Security Technologies Coming Out at RSA With more threats than ever bombarding IT organizations, next-generation firewalls (NGFs) need to have speed. At the RSA 2014 Conference this week, Fortinet announced an upgrade to the operating system that drives its next-generation firewall platform along with an implementation of its firewall software that adds support […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 One of the things that hinders the rapid expansion of telecommunications services in the age of the cloud is the cost and complexity associated with deploying network infrastructure. At the Mobile World Congress 2014 conference this week, HP unveiled a new framework for providing those services using […]