Mike Vizard

Many IT organizations now routinely contract IT security researchers to ascertain just how secure the software they deploy really is. To facilitate that process, Bugcrowd developed a crowd-sourcing platform, dubbed Crowdcontrol, through which IT organizations can contract security researchers that have been vetted. BugCrowd today announced it is extending Crowdcontrol by adding a Traffic Control […]

The compliance issue that many IT organizations are loath to admit is that in the age of the cloud, many of them have little to no idea what data is residing where. Developers and end users now routinely move and copy data with little to no oversight. To enable IT organizations to begin regaining control […]

Oracle is pushing to eliminate the silos that have long existed between IT security and compliance via an update to the Oracle Identity Security Operations Center (SOC) cloud service. Rohit Gupta, group vice president for cloud security at Oracle, says the latest version of Oracle Identity SOC makes it possible to determine how changes to […]

Cloud service providers tend to favor various implementations of the open source Xen hypervisor because it’s simply not cost effective for them to pay to license a commercial hypervisor at scale. It’s not clear to what degree enterprise IT organizations will want to follow suit. But The Linux Foundation that oversees development of Xen aims […]

The creation of an API economy has been a major boon to organizations large and small. But that API economy remains fragile because the quality of the application programming interfaces (APIs) on which it is built is uneven. It’s not uncommon for APIs to not get updated, or worse yet, simply disappear when the author […]

There’s a battle under way for control over Internet of Things (IoT) gateways that will soon be employing processors as powerful as a server in a data center. Dell EMC OEM Solutions has unveiled an instance of an IoT gateway based on the 14th Generation PowerEdge servers the company just started delivering. Tracy Troyer, vice […]

Micro Focus today updated one of the longest running archiving services to make it simpler to both mine data and comply with new regulations such as the General Data Protection Rregulation (GDPR) set to be enforced by the European Union next May. Version 10 of Digital Safe, a hosted archiving service that Micro Focus gained […]

One of the reasons that Big Data analytics is so cumbersome and expensive to implement is all the requisite software modules required to build a compete application. Accelerite today moved to reduce that complexity with the launch of ShareInsights 2.0, which combines data preparation, visualization, collaboration and OLAP software in single offering providing a consistent […]

When it comes to distributed applications, it’s clear there’s a lot of IT infrastructure capacity available that goes largely unused most of the time. But with the rise of fog computing applications that require access to compute resources at the edge of a global network, interest in tapping into all that unused IT infrastructure is […]

Many organizations are now finding they need to run applications that require IT infrastructure historically associated with high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The challenge they face is that most of those organization don’t have access to the capital budget required to build, much less manage, IT at that level of scale. To make HPC more accessible, […]

It’s clear by now that bots are about to play a much bigger role in the management of IT. Juniper Networks today brought that fact home to enterprise networks with the launch of The Self-Driving Network with Juniper Bots. At the same time, Juniper Networks announced it is expanding the number of application programming interfaces […]

IBM today as part of an effort to make various forms of identity access management (IAM) software more easily accessible, opened an online marketplace through which IT organizations can download multifactor security software from IBM and others. Brian Mulligan, offering manager for Access and Authentication at IBM Security, says the IBM Security App Exchange is […]