Mike Vizard

Eight Reasons Why Organizations Should Virtualize At a time when enterprise networking is seeing the greatest transformation in a decade, most organizations are considering the strategic direction they will take in the years ahead. Seeing this as an opportunity to usurp long-standing rivals, Juniper Networks today unveiled a MetaFabric architecture based on the software-defined networking […]

Seven Ways to Make Big Data an Actionable Opportunity Big Data is only as valuable as the analysis that is derived from it. In an effort to accelerate the time to value organizations can achieve by investing in Hadoop, Splunk today announced the general availability of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop. By applying the Splunk […]

Big Data: Not Just for Big Business Anymore When it comes to anything relating to Big Data, concerns about security are never far away. After all, concentrating massive amounts of data in one place can make for a very tempting target for hackers. At the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 event, MapR Technologies announced […]

For all the hype surrounding Hadoop these days, what ultimately matters is what your organization does with all that information. At the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 event today, Platfora is showcasing version 3.0 of the Platfora Big Data Analytics Platform, which adds support for streaming analytics and the ability to categorize data around […]

Five Best Practices for Disk Drive Storage Decisions Storing massive amounts of data is relatively simple—at least until something actually needs to be recovered. One of the most time-consuming tasks that IT organizations generally rue is being asked to find a file or piece of data that’s been archived. They know they have it, but […]

After making what is widely considered to be one of the most disastrous acquisitions in the history of IT from a financial perspective, Hewlett-Packard has begun making good on its promise to leverage the enterprise search technology it gained with the acquisition of Autonomy across its product lines. Most recently, HP announced an implementation of […]

Seven Enterprise Applications Trends for High Growth Companies It’s about to become a lot simpler to tap into the emerging API economy thanks to a new open source modeling language from MuleSoft. The challenge with building APIs is that not only do they tend to easily break, but inconsistencies in implementation wind up exposing more […]

How to Achieve Creative Collaboration Working Remotely When people collaborate with one another inside the office, it’s usually done in the confidence that some level of security is being applied to protect sensitive communications. But when those same conversations take place outside the office using devices that are connected to the corporate network, confidence in […]

Managing who gets to access which applications, and when, within the enterprise is challenging enough. Trying to manage that in addition to a bevy of cloud applications outside the enterprise makes the management of application security a complicated task that most IT organizations don’t have the tools in place to handle. Looking to address that […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis Business intelligence has been bifurcated for almost as long as the category itself has existed. IT organizations have long favored BI applications that are tightly integrated with ERP applications, while individual departments have generally opted for BI applications that are simple to use. That split has been further […]

Continuing to extend its high-performance computing (HPC) expertise into the realm of Big Data, SGI announced today new Big Data storage offerings that not only include a Cloudera Hadoop distribution running on Red Hat Linux, but also provide a one-to-one ratio between server cores and disk spindles. In addition, SGI announced it would make available […]

What Business Leaders Need to Know About Virtualization The general perception of OpenStack is that as a collection of emerging technologies for managing the cloud, this effort by a consortium of some of the largest vendors in IT has a lot of promise. OpenStack is also generally viewed as being something so complex that only […]