Mike Vizard

Most end users are relatively secure behind their corporate firewalls or in their homes. But when they travel they usually wind up connecting systems to networks that are not trusted and all kinds of bad things can easily start to happen. According to Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky, the best IT security defense is paranoia. […]

While there has been a lot of public gnashing of teeth over HTML5, it turns out developers are already moving in that direction. A new survey of 4,043 developers conducted by Kendo UI, a division of Telerik and provider of cross-platform application development tools, finds that the vast majority of developers either already are or […]

There’s a huge gulf today between Hadoop and the skills of the average developer, which is one of the reasons we don’t yet see too many Big Data applications. Hadoop currently provides an inexpensive place to store all that information, but building applications that use the massive amount of information requires mastering some arguably low-level […]

HTML5 Reaches Mainstream Tipping Point In an ideal world, every organization would have the resources needed to write and support an application running natively on every mobile computing device. However, because such a world doesn’t exist, it’s only natural that we’re beginning to see a mass adoption of the HTML5 markup language across the mobile […]

While study after study indicates adoption of cloud computing services is occurring at a measured pace, CIOs are starting to concede that they can’t really compete with external service providers in terms of total cost. Historically, an internal IT organization needed to essentially break even in terms of return on investment, while providers of outsourcing […]

As a technology, enterprise search sounds like something that would be a great idea. But as experience has taught many an IT organization, it often winds up being a lot harder to implement than most IT organizations bargained for. Alas, circumstances often conspire to make the need for some technologies almost unavoidable, which is increasingly […]

Cisco today moved to take wireless networking to another level by striking alliances with providers of mobile computing device chipsets that more tightly integrate those devices with Cisco wireless networks. According to Prashanth Shenoy, senior marketing manager in the Cisco Enterprise Wireless Networking Group, the overall goal is to not only increase the quality of […]

Hewlett-Packard wants to help IT organizations address one of the more pressing issues facing data centers these days: generating more performance per watt. HP this week launched a new family of HP ProLiant SL4500 Gen8 servers that can be configured with either Intel Xeon E5-2400 series or AMD Opteron 4200 series processors. According to Jim […]

One of the arguments routinely made to justify upgrading an ERP application is that it allows an organization to introduce more controls to meet various governance and compliance issues. But while a survey of 88 organizations that either upgraded or deployed new SAP application software conducted by PwC bears that out, the survey also finds […]

Although platform as a service (PaaS) has yet to find a lot of acceptance in the enterprise, big players such as IBM and now Oracle are starting to enter the fray. Oracle this week announced that it is investing in Engine Yard, a provider of a PaaS service, as part of the company’s continuing push […]

IT organizations are increasingly living in two worlds. The first one is fairly well known in that it consists of all the applications that have historically run inside the enterprise. The second is a brave new world of cloud applications. According to Darren Cunningham, vice president of cloud marketing for Informatica, each of those scenarios […]

In theory, business intelligence (BI) applications should be able to easily visualize data regardless of where it’s located. In practice, that winds up being a lot more challenging than it should be. With the release today of version 5.0 of its namesake software, Jaspersoft is trying to simplify the process. The latest version of Jaspersoft […]