Mike Vizard

Fulfilling a promise made in 2012, SAP at its Sapphire Now conference later this month will announce the availability of its High Performance Analytics Appliance (HANA) as a service in the cloud. Speaking at the Cloud Analytics Summit today, Stephen Spears, SAP senior vice president for application development, integration and IT management, said SAP will […]

While mobile computing tends to generate a lot of interest in new approaches to managing desktops in general and devices in particular, a lot of IT organizations tend to favor the path of least resistance. For a lot of them, that means finding a way to securely make a handful of applications available to users […]

Security is obviously still a top-of-mind issue when it comes to cloud computing. But as IT organizations become more comfortable with public cloud computing, they are finding ways to secure external cloud services. The latest example of a way to secure the Amazon cloud comes this week from Trend Micro. The security vendor announced at […]

A big part of the problem with networking in the data center today is that there is not much visibility above and below the hypervisor. That results in a lot of sub-optimal performance decisions in terms of how networking resources get allocated across the data center. Brocade today moved to address this long-standing issue with […]

Although there will always be instances where it makes more sense to use MapReduce with Hadoop, it’s pretty clear at this point that most enterprise IT organizations would rather use SQL. MapReduce is not only fairly arcane technology to master, but the vast majority of existing data warehouse applications were designed for SQL. Recognizing that […]

The Benefits of Big Data Hindered by Traditional Analytic Approaches By already owning Versant, Ingres and Vectorwise, Actian has no shortage of database platforms to choose from. But with the acquisition of ParAccel, Actian is now adding a massively parallel database to the company’s stable for database platforms. According to Actian CTO Mike Hoskins, the […]

As Amazon continues to extend its dominance of the public cloud, interest in being able to create a replica of Amazon Web Services in a private cloud that runs on premise is naturally increasing. Looking to make hybrid cloud computing seamless across a private cloud and AWS, Eucalyptus Systems today released version 3.3 of its […]

Marketing may seem like more art than science, but, in reality, it’s a set of business processes like any other. That means that, just like any other business process, a lot of it can be automated. Pegasystems is moving to accomplish that with a new update to its Next-Best-Action Marketing offering that is designed to […]

Twelve Best Practices for Mobile Device Management After making a number of strategic forays into the software space by acquiring vendors such as Quest Software, Dell this week outlined a strategic effort to begin unifying its software portfolio. Saranya Babu, senior marketing manager at Dell, says that Dell is crafting a number of offerings under […]

How Well Do You Know the Cloud? IT people quickly get frustrated talking with business people whom they perceive as ignorant of some of the more basic IT concepts, especially when it comes to cloud computing and Big Data. Similarly, business people get frustrated listening to IT people who can’t seem to express concepts in […]

Looking to shore up its bona fides in the storage space, Cisco today unveiled a Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director, a storage switch for Fibre-channel environments that Cisco claims is three times faster than any rival storage director. Capable of delivering up to 24 terabits-per-second of switching capacity, Richard Darnielle, director of product management for […]

Ten Steps You Shouldn’t Take to Make Storage Run Faster The amount of data that most IT organizations are being asked to manage is putting a premium not only on space, but actual scalability. The majority of IT organizations are now routinely being asked to manage 10 to 100 times more data without adding more […]