Mike Vizard

It may take some getting used to, but Oracle has announced how it plans to support the adoption of one of its technologies on platforms it doesn’t own. The company today announced Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Essentials, a free version of ADF that will be made available on open source GlassFish application servers in […]

One of the major challenges that IT organizations have with all-things business intelligence is how long it takes to actually set up applications. SAP, however, wants to take this issue off the table by giving customers an analytics application option that comes with both database and data integration software. SAP today released new versions of […]

When it comes to building out the “Internet of Things” the race may not go to the telecommunications carrier or cloud service provider with the most connectivity, but rather the one that provides the best analytics for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. According to Carlos Morales, global director of M2M at Telefonica Digital, connectivity is rapidly becoming […]

While there is a lot of talk being generated this week about the evolution of the social enterprise at the Dreamforce 2012 conference being hosted by Salesforce.com, there remains the practical issue of actually trying to establish and the correlate identities across multiple social networks. People tend to have different “handles” on different social networks, […]

While cloud computing has much to offer in terms of simplifying IT administration, there is still a long way to go before reaching any kind of nirvana. While a virtual server can be provisioned in a matter of minutes, it can still take an IT organization several weeks to provision the storage and networking resources […]

Just about every survey lists security as the number one reason that IT organizations are hesitant to embrace cloud computing. But what most of those surveys fail to recognize is that most internal IT organizations are not all that good at IT security. Arguably, cloud services are more secure because the companies that provide those […]

Among all the major vendors, Lenovo has been the most discreet concerning its cloud computing ambitions. But with the acquisition this week of Stoneware, a provider of a unified desktop environment called webNetwork, Lenovo is signaling that it not only intends to be a provider of cloud services, but it also has a vision for […]

Most mobile computing devices such as tablets are primarily used to consume rather than create content. But as time evolves, it’s apparent that as these devices become more robust, it will become increasingly more feasible to create content on them. The challenge will be to then figure out how to synchronize files created and updated […]

Just like when IT operations people complain about new applications being thrown up on production servers with little regard to the actual state of the IT environment, IT organizations are creating instances of cloud computing that don’t take into account the reality of the IT environment. This situation exists not because of spite, but rather […]

Apprenda, a provider of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) software for running Microsoft.Net applications, is following up a free downloadable instance of its software with a free offering that can now run in the cloud. Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller says one of the issues that Apprenda sees with getting PaaS adopted in the enterprise is the cost of […]

One of the more challenging issues hampering the broad adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise is identity management. Right now, most IT organizations are dependent on Microsoft Active Directory for managing identities in the enterprise. As yet, there is no direct equivalent of Active Directory in the cloud, which is creating an opportunity for […]

Providers of data protection software are starting to move into the mobile computing space with an expanded agenda. Instead of just providing a backup and recovery capability, they are starting to see mobile computing as an opportunity to get into file sharing and synchronization across multiple mobile computing devices. To that end, Acronis this week […]