Mike Vizard

Debunking Five Misconceptions About Cloud-Based Services OutSystems has become the latest provider of a platform as a service (PaaS) offering that is blurring the line between public and private cloud computing. As the provider of a PaaS environment for both Java and Microsoft.Net applications, OutSystems announced that it is making its namesake PaaS offering available […]

Big Data: Eight Facts and Eight Fictions Big Data analysis is fairly useless unless all the insight that can be garnered from making such an investment can be easily consumed across the enterprise. With that goal in mind, at the Splunk Worldwide 2013 Users Conference, Splunk released version 6.0 of Splunk Enterprise, an upgrade to […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution No one would argue that in the age of the cloud, we face an increased need to move workloads around to take advantage of the better economics provided by a broad spectrum of cloud service platforms. But beyond that, there’s not much agreement about how […]

Ten Steps You Shouldn’t Take to Make Storage Run Faster Flash memory is at a critical juncture in the enterprise. Up until now, the acquisition of solid-state storage systems has been driven by developers and database administrators seeking to boost the performance of a particular application. But as the solid-state drives have matured, storage administrators […]

Ten Tips to Gain Control of Your Email Inbox The popular perception may be that everything related to email and collaboration is moving to the cloud, but the folks at Novell contend that once the initial wave of migrations to platforms such as Microsoft Office 365 is over, the lion’s share of these applications will […]

IT Plays Catch-up with Cloud Application Security In an ideal world, security policies would attach themselves to a particular application workload and then follow it wherever it went. CloudPassage today is offering just that sort of capability with the extension of its security as a service platform into multiple cloud computing platforms. According to CloudPassage […]

A Closer Look at Converged Infrastructure Adoption Adopting a converged infrastructure is one thing; trying to manage it is another. Servers, storage and networking environments today are usually managed by an amalgamation of tools from different vendors that make it hard to correlate, let alone see, what is actually occurring across the data center. As […]

For the most part, providers of cloud applications are content to make an economic case for why it’s less expensive to embrace software delivered as a service. IBM, on the other hand, wants to change the way organizations actually function. With the latest release of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business, IBM is adding support for […]

Ten Tips for Realizing a True Mobile Enterprise The makers of tablets and smartphones haven’t exactly made it easy for users to print from their mobile devices. After all, most users keep files digital and in the cloud to make it easier to access them from any device, but there are times when printing a […]

Ten Reasons Why OpenStack Will Rule the Enterprise With just about every vendor trying to get in front of what will likely be a major shift to platform as a service (PaaS) in the enterprise, Red Hat has outlined a next-generation cloud computing strategy based on the company’s OpenShift architecture. According to Red Hat President […]

Four Best Practices for Accelerating Time-to-Value of Master Data Management SAP recently moved to acquire KXEN, a provider of a predictive analytics application that is credited with incorporating visualization tools that make the information contained in predictive analytics simpler to consume. It hopes this acquisition will help it make predictive analytics as accessible as any […]

While advanced persistent threats (APTs) are still a small percentage of the type of attacks that IT organizations deal with, their very existence is fundamentally changing the way organizations need to approach security. Unlike other types of more brute-force attacks, APTs are subtle. They can insert themselves into a system and remain dormant for months. […]