Mike Vizard

Despite the availability of any number of new and emerging technologies, there hasn’t been a major leap in employee productivity in quite some time. In fact, productivity has slowed considerably over the last decade. HP, Inc. this week launched a bevy of PC and printer offerings that are squarely focused on improving productivity. Starting with […]

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has defined an Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA) that creates a Layered Databus pattern that it is recommending as a framework for developing multi-tiered Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Real-Time Innovations (RTI) today announced it has become one of the first providers of a connectivity software for IoT environments to […]

IBM at an Open Source Summit North America conference today improved its case for deploying applications on an instance of Linux running on a mainframe. An update to the distribution of Linux that IBM makes available on mainframes, dubbed LinuxONE Emperor II, extends the IBM LinuxONE Secure Service Containers in a way that encrypts data […]

Micro Focus at a Protect 2017 conference today unveiled a revamped portfolio of security offerings that extends the capabilities of both the ArcSight technologies it gained from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the NetIQ management tools it already owned. Travis Grandpre, director of product marketing for Micro Focus, says version 2.2 of ArcSight Data Platform (ADP) […]

While the total cost of acquiring open source software can’t be beat, the cost of implementing and managing open source software can be prohibitively expensive. Because of that issue, many organizations rely on a third-party IT organization to implement and manage open source software on their behalf. Instaclustr is taking that concept to the next […]

IT service providers have been employing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for some time now to cost-effectively provide access to applications at scale. Now one of the providers of a HCI platform that was previously only available to service providers is making that platform available to enterprise IT organizations. The OnApp Enterprise platform from OnApp is based […]

There’s no shortage these days of ways people can share information online and yet most projects are still hampered by a failure to communicate. To address that issue, Atlassian has launched Stride, a unified communications platform delivered as a cloud service that spans everything from video conferencing and file sharing to meetings and messaging. Steve […]

At the AnsibleFest 2017 conference, Red Hat for the first time is adding the ability to automate network management to its open source IT automation framework in addition to updating Ansible Tower, the version of the Ansible Engine framework that is designed to allow IT organizations to automate IT functions at enterprise scale. Justin Nemmers, […]

Most organizations have now come to understand that the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a new wave of technologies that has the potential to disrupt the competitive landscape within their industry. Most of them also recognize they don’t have the internal IT resources required to master all the technologies involved. To help organizations lower that […]

A non-profit consortium dubbed DFINITY Stiftung plans to demonstrate a network made up of thousands of nodes that it expects one day to be used to process blockchain transactions. Dominic Williams, chief scientist for DFINITY, says the DFINITY Network borrows concepts pioneered by the Ethereum blockchain platform to provide a means to build and deploy […]

Later this year, M-Files Corp. plans to embed support for artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing technologies within its enterprise content management (ECM) system following its acquisition of Apprento. Greg Milliken, chief marketing officer for M-Files, says Apprento provides M-Files with access to an Apprento Business Context Engine that understands natural language processing. At […]

About the only thing more frustrating and annoying than a ransomware attack that encrypts an organization’s data is discovering that the files that were backed up to replace those files have been encrypted as well. To help prevent that from happening, BackupAssist this week added a CryptoSafeGaurd capability to its backup and recovery software that […]