Mike Vizard

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution Given the volumes of data that now need to be processed, analyzed and stored, many IT organizations are realizing that from both a technology and financial perspective, the size of the task being presented is simply too big to manage alone. At the Teradata 2013 […]

Data without context is generally useless, and when it comes to providing that context, location is usually everything. At its TUCON 2013 conference this week, TIBCO Software moved to provide that context by releasing an upgrade to its TIBCO Spotfire analytics software that adds support for geospatial analytics based on technology that TIBCO gained when […]

Given the cost of Flash memory, optimizing the performance of primary Flash storage is a top of mind issue for storage administrators. When a lot of data that has little value winds up on Flash storage, it’s a waste of a significant amount of money. Looking to give storage administrators more control over what data […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution After first allying with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to build the servers for its next-generation cloud platform, Verizon today revealed it has enlisted NetApp to provide the storage. According to Tom Shields, director of service provider marketing for NetApp, the Verizon Cloud Compute and Verizon […]

It’s sometimes easy to forget that, as far as most end users are concerned, analytics is merely a means to an end. As such, those users are generally a lot more interested in the path of least resistance when it comes to applying analytics. With that issue firmly in mind, Adobe this week at the […]

Six Reasons Business Should Pay Attention to Social Marketing Social media has provided a fairly powerful medium for sharing information with friends and family, but in a business context, social media needs to be applied with great care. Not everyone in the organization should have equal access to every piece of data, especially when it […]

Five Best Practices for Disk Drive Storage Decisions One of the first providers to deliver on a commitment Microsoft made to optimize the Windows Server 2012 platform for Flash memory is Violin Memory. Today the provider of Flash memory cards, appliances and arrays announced that Windows Server 2012 applications that make use of persistent Flash […]

Tick Tock! Six Good Reasons to Migrate Your XP OS With more IT organizations studying their desktop options thanks to the imminent cessation of Windows XP support, vendors see an opportunity to usurp Microsoft’s control of the enterprise desktop for the first time in decades. Looking to seize that opportunity, VMware today announced it has […]

Big Data: Not Just for Big Business Anymore Regularly managing massive amounts of Big Data is a challenge that at this point most IT organizations are not going to be able to overcome. To help IT organizations to rise to the challenge, IBM recently moved to acquire Daeja Image Systems, a provider of software that […]

Seven Ways to Make Big Data an Actionable Opportunity Conventional wisdom holds that in order to really derive the benefits of investing in Big Data, organizations need to hire data scientists that typically command salaries above $100,000. That kind of investment could normally put Big Data investments out of the reach of many organizations. But […]

With organizations of all sizes focused more than ever these past few years on driving cost out of their business, the procurement function has been utterly transformed. Instead of putting contracts out to bid to a limited number of suppliers, companies are increasingly tapping into massive online networks of global suppliers. Looking to help companies […]

Five Questions to Ask When Choosing a Vulnerability Management System Security today requires a multi-layer approach, where all the elements of defense actually share intelligence about attacks and potential threats. With that in mind, Cisco has plugged a gap in its security framework by completing its acquisition of Sourcefire, a provider of intrusion prevention systems […]