Mike Vizard

One of the more complex IT environments to operate daily involves enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. The real challenge is that most of the tasks that need to be accomplished are fairly routine. There are lots of them, but like most IT tasks, it’s not too long before a consistent pattern emerges. Tata Consultancy Services […]

As IT organizations begin to contemplate the breadth and scope of a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that the European Union (EU) is scheduled to implement on May 25th, 2018, the biggest issue many of them will face is simply determining which data they have is affected by the rule. To help IT organizations sort […]

Assuming machines are now going to replace humans altogether, the next major IT challenge is to create applications that enable people and intelligent machines to more easily collaborate. With that particular issue in mind, VANTIQ has updated its namesake application platform-as-a-service (aPaaS) in a way that promises to make it simpler to build applications that […]

One of the biggest challenges internal IT organizations face today is the building and deploying of mobile applications. Because of the proliferation of so many consumer mobile applications built by companies with substantial engineering resources, expectations concerning what an internal IT organization should be able to deliver in the way of a mobile application run […]

By now, most organizations have come to terms with the fact that they will be building and deploying applications infused with some form of artificial intelligence (AI). The challenge many of them face is determining the simplest and fastest way of going about achieving that goal. Ayasdi is making available an Ayasdi Envision framework designed […]

Connecting applications is one thing. Crafting workflows that span those connected applications is quite another. Dell Boomi is now making available a Spring 2017 release of its namesake cloud integration service to automate workflows without having to hire professional developers. Based on the workflow automation software that Dell Boomi gained when it acquired ManyWho, a […]

Providers of storage systems are racing to be first to deliver platform systems based on Intel Xeon processors optimized for the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) interface developed by Intel. Tegile Systems this week announced its entry via an update to its IntelliFlash HD Flash storage platform that the company claims can store 30 percent more […]

As hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms get more widely deployed within IT environments, the need to back up and then recover data from a platform that tightly couples compute and storage presents new challenges. To address that issue, Comtrade Software has developed data protection software specifically designed for HCI platforms from Nutanix. Subbiah Sundaram, head of […]

Most security professionals spend a lot more time looking for the source of problem than they do fixing it. That can be especially vexing when they know there’s a cyberattack in progress. To cut down on that time, Demisto this week added a Demisto Insights module to a Demisto Enterprise security operations platform that provides […]

As far as cyberattacks go, spearphishing has over the years been elevated to an art. Cybercriminals have become extremely adept at crafting e-mail messages that can trick even the most savvy of end users into downloading malware capable of delivering a variety of payloads, including ransomware attacks such as WannaCry and Petya. Barracuda Networks today […]

For several years now, many IT organizations have been building up massive repositories of Big Data based on Hadoop. Datameer today announced it is making it simpler to apply deep learning algorithms in the form of open source Google TensorFlow software within an analytics application that runs on top of Hadoop. John Morrell, senior director of […]

One of the dirty little IT secrets that most organizations prefer not to talk too much about is the lack of visibility and control they have over who can share what information via any specific means. The proliferation of cloud-based communications and content repository services makes it a trivial matter for end users to share […]