Mike Vizard

The amount of data that most IT organizations are now being tasked to process has grown considerably with no end in sight. That’s putting a lot of pressure on systems that were never designed to process that much data. Vexata today formally unveiled an Active Data Fabric storage operating system designed from the ground up […]

The only way most organizations have been able to cope with exponential increases in the amount of data that needs to be managed is to rely more on automation. Most of the automation software, however, has only been made available on high-end storage systems. Dell EMC today announced an SC Series v3000 array priced starting […]

OutSystems at a NextStep 2017 conference today announced it is making available free plug-ins for a low-code application development environment that makes it simpler to call external artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) services delivered via the cloud. The plug-ins being made available enable developers to access machine learning and IoT cloud services […]

Twilio at a Signal 2017 conference today unveiled a visual tool that organizations can employ to craft digital experiences spanning audio, video and messaging services delivered via Amazon Web Services (AWS). Previously, Twilio services could only be invoked by developers accessing REST application programming interfaces (APIs). Pat Malatack, vice president of product for Twilio, says […]

The primary point of any cybersecurity attack is usually an endpoint that in one way or another has been comprised by malware. Aruba, a unit of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, today announced it has developed a security framework for networks designed to thwart such attacks. Larry Lunetta, vice president of security solutions marketing for Aruba, says the […]

When it comes to lifting and shifting applications into the cloud, the single biggest challenge is arguably moving the data. To accelerate that process, leading cloud service providers have developed physical appliances to be shipped to customers that make it faster and easier to replicate data. Once that data is collected, the appliance is then […]

There is no question at this point that every enterprise application is going to have an embedded analytics capability. The real issue is what underlying set of technologies will be employed to provide that capability. Now that Micro Focus has gained control over the Vertica columnar database from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), it is making a […]

Via a series of acquisitions and mergers, Syncsort is in the process of transforming itself from being a provider of extract, transform and load (ETL) tools employed primarily on mainframes to being a provider of data management software spanning multiple platforms. David Hodgson, chief product officer for Syncsort, says the recent acquisition of Metron Technology, […]

The two reasons most often cited for deployed application workloads on a public cloud are cost and agility. In many cases, it’s less expensive to deploy certain classes of workloads on a cloud. It’s also a lot easier to update those applications as business conditions change. But arguably the most important downstream benefit is going […]

There is virtually no business process that can’t be rendered more efficient with a little extra artificial intelligence (AI). Augment today revealed that it has developed an AI platform that leverages machine and deep learning algorithms to enable customer service representatives and automated chatbots to work together in a more hand in glove fashion. Augment […]

Business executives of all types have made it exceedingly clear they don’t want to have to work across multiple silos to analyze data. Business intelligence (BI) and analytics software needs to enable business users to analyze data regardless of what platform that data happens to be stored in at any given time. At a JOIN […]

The divide between simply transfering files and managing projects keeps getting narrower. AeroFS, a provider of collaboration software built on top of file sharing software that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, announced today it has acquired Redbooth, a provider of project management software delivered as a cloud service The new entity will […]