Mike Vizard

Survey Exposes Concerns About Employee Privacy for BYOD One of the reasons that users are so enamored with the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is that for years IT organizations foisted systems on them that from an IT perspective were ideal, but always compromised on features that the average end user tends to crave. […]

Five Reasons to Conduct a Storage Assessment Today As the cost of cloud storage continues to drop, interest in storing files in the cloud continues to grow exponentially, regardless of potential compliance issues that may arise. The challenge, of course, is finding a way to access those files over a wide area network that by […]

Tracing the Evolution of Business Intelligence Through the Rise of Embedded Analytics While there’s a lot of interest these days in all things related to analytics, the cost of building out the infrastructure needed to tap into all that data has given more than a few organizations cause for pause. To address this challenge, Teradata […]

Five Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Move Your Data More applications running on top of virtual machines are all trying to share the same physical network, so IT organizations need more granular control over what traffic gets prioritized on the network. Aiming to provide that capability, Brocade today unveiled a 100 Gigabit Ethernet VDX switch that […]

How to Battle Summer Complacency in Endpoint Security As various forms of advanced persistent threats (APTs) become both more pervasive and sophisticated, the challenges associated with keeping IT environments secure have become increasingly complex. One of the biggest issues with APTs is that they often embed themselves at the BIOS level of a device where […]

Five Steps to Improve Marketing Effectiveness with Big Data When it comes to applying advanced analytics, the biggest opportunity for most organizations lies in the reams of text data they collect across any number of unstructured silos. The problem is that most of them can’t afford the Big Data infrastructure needed to turn all that […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution When it comes to cloud computing, one of the biggest challenges faced by IT organizations is that the cloud creates another isolated stack of computing to manage. In fact, the total cost of managing that additional stack of computing can wind up negating any of […]

Debunking Five Misconceptions About Cloud-Based Services Turns out a box isn’t just for storing stuff; at least not in a digital context. At the BoxWorks 2013 user conference , Box announced it has begun private beta testing of Box Notes, a set of tools that allow users to create and annotate content within the Box […]

Debunking Five Misconceptions About Cloud-Based Services Top the average end user, having to store files locally before transferring them into the cloud often appears to be both a waste of effort and disk space. What many of them really want is to be able to think of the cloud as replacement for their local hard […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis The challenge with Big Data is not so much the amount of data involved as much as its variety. Not only do organizations need to compare multiple sources of Big Data, it seems like there’s no end to the types of Big Data formats that business users need […]

Overstepping the Line Between Big Data and Big Brother? As the sheer volume of Big Data continues to scale upward, the complexity of managing the overall IT environment increases exponentially. The challenge is not only figuring out how to make Big Data accessible, but to also efficiently and continually manage it. Coinciding with release of […]

Five Pitfalls to Avoid with Hadoop As part of an effort to create a comprehensive approach to building Big Data environments, SAP this week announced it will not only resell Hadoop distributions from Intel and HortonWorks, but that it is also putting data virtualization hooks into Hadoop to better integrate the open source data management […]