Mike Vizard

It turns out all malicious code exhibits the same basic eight characteristics when being executed. The only challenge then is identifying those characteristics quickly enough to limit any of the harm that code might actually do. With that goal in mind, TaaSERA today launched TAAS NetAnalyzer, a new security service that identifies malicious code using […]

It’s not all that uncommon to find a technology that was developed to address one use case to suddenly be applied to another. Such is the case with the launch this week of Embarcadero Metadata Governance, a framework from Embarcadero Technologies that applies a set of technologies originally created to help developers build applications to […]

One of the primary benefits of virtualization is that it allows IT organizations to manage systems at a higher level of abstraction. What’s good for servers should obviously be just as good for networking, which is one of the reasons we’re starting to hear more these days about network virtualization. The latest entrant in this […]

The trouble with managing any application these days is that there’s not much in the way of a warning before demand for compute capacity for that application suddenly spikes. This is especially true for applications running on cloud computing platforms that might be accessed by hordes of people who suddenly decide to whip out their […]

Long known for providing tools that make it easier to visualize data, Actuate today moved up in weight class in the predictive analytics space with the release of BIRT Analytics. Based on columnar database technology that Actuate gained with the acquisition of Quiterian S.L. last year, Nobby Akiha, senior vice president of marketing for Actuate, […]

Most IT organizations that have invested in VMware have already made a significant investment in the vCenter management platform developed by VMware. Nevertheless, there is still a lot interest in rival virtual machine platforms from Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat, but not many IT organizations are overly excited about investing in additional management platforms. To […]

This week when Oracle rolled out what it described as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, it got a lot of tongues wagging among cloud computing purists. The new offering that Oracle identified as being IaaS consists of a set of servers and appliances, including an Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle SPARC SuperCluster, […]

Managing endpoint security in the age of BYOD has become a major problem for IT organizations. Most of them do not have the security systems in place that can scale to handle a brave new world of computing where every employee has two or three devices that can randomly connect to the corporate network at […]

Managing virtual machines is often a game of trial and error. IT administrators generally have to sit back and hope that the new virtual machine they just provisioned won’t have an adverse impact on the performance of the applications that reside on the virtual machines that are already running. To help make the whole process […]

Given all the interest in mobile computing these days, it should come as no surprise that the security of these devices has become a major cause of concern. The simple fact is that all the devices finding their way into the enterprise are created equal when it comes to security. Nevertheless, it seems like IT […]

Big Data Applications Start to Gain Traction While the hype curve surrounding Big Data and all things related to Apache Hadoop will probably reach a pinnacle in 2013, a new survey of 516 IT professionals, conducted by King Research on behalf of Actuate, a provider of the open source BIRT reporting tools, found on average […]

Skytap has become the latest provider of cloud computing services to make instances of an Apache Hadoop distribution available in the cloud. The decision that IT organizations will ultimately have to make is where to run those Big Data applications once they make their way to a production environment. According to Brett Goodwin, vice president […]