Mike Vizard

Five Pitfalls to Avoid with Hadoop At the O’Reilly Strata conference today, Intel took another step toward reinventing the data center from the ground up with the launch of the Intel Data Platform, an extension of the Intel distribution of Hadoop that provides enhanced security, and the release of an analytics toolkit that embeds graph […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 Interest in all things relating to data big and small has never been higher. The challenge is that a multitude of tools and applications are needed to turn all that data into something useful for the business, which can be difficult to overcome. Attivio has put all the […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 As a provider of a business intelligence application that runs in RAM, SiSense has been at the forefront of a move toward taking advantage of memory to deliver more robust analytics applications. At the O’Reilly Strata conference, SiSense is taking that capability a step further with […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 As part of an effort to give IT organizations more centralized control over services that are delivered to branch offices, Citrix today unveiled a CloudBridge appliance that combines wide area network (WAN) optimization software with an implementation of Windows Server. Karl Brown, senior director of product marketing […]

In twin moves this week, Sophos added a firewall to its portfolio of offerings via the acquisition of Cyberoam Technologies and an upgrade to its encryption management service that now supports the native encryption capabilities available in almost every operating system. Sophos CFO Nick Bray says the plan is to carry both unified threat management […]

Report Warns of Increased Severity and Sophistication in DoS/DDoS Attacks Conventional security wisdom holds that because next-generation firewalls focus on the application layer, they are not able to keep pace with brute-force attacks that require high-performance firewalls. Palo Alto Networks wants to challenge that perception with the unveiling today of the PA-7050, a new high-end […]

Four Ways to Solve Cloud Integration, for Better or Worse One of the knocks against using a cloud computing service is the perceived loss of control over the IT environment. And yet, as cloud computing evolves, cloud service providers are now viewing the level of control they provide customers as a point of competitive differentiation. […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 Cascading has emerged as an open source alternative to the Java application programming interface (API) for building Big Data applications on top of Hadoop. Developed by Concurrent, Cascading has now been deployed in over 6,000 applications, which now makes managing all those applications a challenge. To address that […]

The rise of in-memory computing has set the stage for the convergence of transactional and analytics applications within the same platform. MemSQL is taking organizations a step closer to achieving that goal with the release today of version 3.0 of its namesake in-memory database that now supports column store in addition to traditional relational data […]

Best Practices for Teleconferencing with Employees Working Remotely The popularity of Google+ Hangouts as a videoconferencing service has steadily risen over the last two years. From a corporate perspective, the problem is that as a Web-based service, Google Hangouts is incompatible with most existing videoconferencing systems that largely depend on the Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) […]

Top Five Things You Should Know About Network Forensics Organizations today routinely give people access to wireless networks either as a way to increase affinity or simply generate some revenue. But not many of them have a whole lot of visibility into what transpires on those networks. Extreme Networks is trying to change all that […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 Given the shortage of people with Big Data analytics skills, there’s a lot of focus these days on anything and everything relating to Big Data at the university level. So it should not come as a surprise to discover that vendors are trying to get the inside track […]