Mike Vizard

As a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for both human resources and finance departments, Workday is in a unique position that enables it to compare lots of data. At a Workday Rising 2017 conference today, Workday announced the limited availability of a Workday Prism Analytics service that enables organizations to analyze data residing in Workday […]

IBM today unveiled an instance of an object-based storage system that enables IT organizations that need to store as little as 72TB of data take advantage of a dispersal storage technique that securely stores slices of data across three nodes. In addition, IBM announced Compliance-Enabled Vaults, which enforce a Rule 17a-4 from the Securities and […]

Provisioning a thing to be attached to the internet on average takes about 20 minutes, assuming everything goes correctly. That sounds simple enough until an organization decides it wants to attach hundreds of thousands of things to the internet. It quickly becomes apparent there isn’t enough tine in a year to accomplish the task. Intel […]

One of the biggest challenges associated with managing storage today is the sheer number of platforms involved. From file servers and network attached storage (NAS) servers to emerging hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms and object-based storage systems accessible via the cloud, managing storage has never been more complex. Data Dynamics this week moved to reduce that […]

As more organizations make the shift toward hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms, an interesting phenomenon is starting to occur. Many of the functions that were previously deployed as applications on a server are now being recrafted as applications designed to run on a HCI platform that unifies compute and storage. Nutanix this week announced it is […]

Ever since Intel moved to acquire Altera in 2015, it was only a matter of time before field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) would show up in data centers in large numbers. Intel this week made good on that promise by unveiling Intel Programmable Acceleration Cards and associated software that enable FPGAs to be employed to […]

At a SuiteConnect 2017 event held this week as part of a larger Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference, NetSuite today announced it has made available a SuitePeople human resources (HR) application as part of the company’s portfolio of software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Oracle acquired NetSuite last year. In addition to expanding into the HR realm, NetSuite today […]

At the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference this week, Oracle unveiled a raft of applications that all employ machine learning algorithms to automate processes spanning from how goods and services are procured to how individuals are recruited to work for the company. Jack Berkowitz, vice president of products and data Science for Oracle Adaptive Intelligence, says […]

Thanks to widespread usage of Apple Siri and Cortana on Windows, end users are starting to regularly employ conversation interfaces to query applications. Now ThinAir is bringing support for a similar conversation interface capability to IT security software. Announced today at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2017 conference, the latest 2.0 version of the company’s namesake platform […]

At the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference this week, Oracle unveiled what it is touting to be the first autonomous database to employ machine learning algorithms to eliminate completely the need for humans to manage the database. Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison says Oracle Database 18c will first manifest itself in an Oracle Data Warehouse […]

SAP by the middle of 2018 plans to make an instance of a blockchain database available based on an instance of the open source Hyperledger project that will be primarily employed across multiple community clouds hosted by SAP. SAP for now is providing access to a blockchain as a service offering via an early access […]

As a provider of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform based on x86 servers, Scale Computing has been at the forefront of modernizing IT infrastructure. This week, Scale Computing announced it has extended its alliance with Google to employ a nested virtual machine running on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that effectively turns a public cloud […]