Mike Vizard

With the rise of agile development, application release management has become a major issue with enterprise IT organizations. IBM this week moved to fill a hole in its portfolio relating to application release management with its acquisition of UrbanCode. According to Randy Newell, director of go-to-market for the IBM Rational business unit, IT operations has […]

When it comes to developing applications, the most strategic thing many organizations can do is to allow every member of the team assigned to developing and deploying an application to get out of each others’ way. With that goal in mind, Serena Software today released an update to its application release management software that introduces […]

The future of enterprise IT will increasingly be defined by the deployment of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications across both public and private clouds. Putting the framework in place to manage everything from developing, accessing, management and securing those applications in the era of Big Data is the strategic opportunity that CA Technologies, under the leadership of […]

For a lot of business users, the beauty of any application is only skin deep. If a business intelligence application doesn’t provide them with an appealing experience, they aren’t going to embrace it or give up their dependency on spreadsheet applications. To help make the Pentaho business intelligence application environment more attractive to end users, […]

Five Ways to Know if Your Challenge Is Big Data or Lots of Data There’s a lot of useful machine data flowing across the average network; the challenge has been finding a way to effectively capture it and then analyze it in a way that makes it useful. Looking to take on the challenge is […]

Top 10 Reasons Why You Need a Better Network to the Cloud One of the more vexing challenges that cloud service providers routinely face is trying to scale their environments in an age when servers not only have to process application workloads, but also deal with all the overhead generated by a virtual network that […]

By now, everyone realizes that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest cloud computing platform out there by a wide margin. What most people don’t really appreciate is how big AWS really is and why size really matters in the age of the cloud. Speaking at an AWS Summit 2013 conference in New York today, […]

With more than half the data floating around any given enterprise, it’s fairly certain that managing that data more effectively could be a major boon in terms of reducing the number of headaches associated with managing that data and the amount of IT infrastructure needed to support it. With those twin goals in mind, Hitachi […]

Far too many IT organizations tend to confuse backup with archiving. A lot of them assume that if they are backing up their files they have created an archive. Of course, vendors don’t tend to make it easy for them to do both because most backup and archiving applications require different physical storage systems. EMC […]

As a set of technologies that can unify the management of both public and private cloud, OpenStack holds great promise. Hoping to leverage that promise, Red Hat this week at the OpenStack Summit conference outlined its plans for leveraging OpenStack to not only unify the management of its existing servers, but also instances of Red […]

SAP doesn’t seem to think that its High-Performance Analytics Appliance (HANA) is the only way to take advantage of faster memory. Violin Memory, a provider of Flash memory storage systems, announced today that SAP has certified the Sybase relational database so that it can run on servers connected to Flash memory arrays from Violin Memory. […]

After having already made an official commitment to OpenStack, Hewlett-Packard today is extending its support for the cloud management framework to both the cloud and its storage product line. At the OpenStack Summit conference, HP announced that version 7.2 of the HP CloudSystem allows IT organizations to invoke OpenStack to manage pools of Red Hat […]