Mike Vizard

MapR Technologies started out life as one of a few providers of a distribution of Hadoop. Since then, MapR has built an entire distributed computing framework on top of Hadoop. MapR this week extended that framework into the realm of storage. Bill Peterson, senior director for industry solutions for MapR, says MapR-XD will make it […]

At an Inspire 2017 conference this week, Alteryx announced it will be extending the self-service capabilities this fall following its acquisition of Yhat in addition to increasing the total number of data sources available within the Alteryx Designer analytics workbench application. Bob Laurent, vice president of product marketing at Alteryx, says Alteryx Connect will make […]

At a Spark Summit 2017 conference this week, Databricks announced that it will be making an instance of the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework available as a managed cloud service running on top of serverless computing environment. In addition, Databricks revealed it will be making available curated instances of machine learning algorithms and tools via […]

Machine data is now not only more distributed than ever, it’s also being used to influence decisions that go well beyond what’s occurring inside the IT organizations. To make it easier to employ machine data across the enterprise, Sumo Logic this week announced it has extended the reach of its namesake cloud analytics services into […]

At a Discover 2017 conference today, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) made a bevy of additions to its server lineup, including what it describes as the first server to embed security functions into the silicon of forthcoming Proliant Gen 10 series servers based on Intel x86 processors. Mark Potter, senior vice president and CTO for HPE, says […]

When it comes to IT security, there’s a marked preference for best of breed technologies given everything that is at stake. Juniper Networks today extended its Software-Defined Secure Networks (SDSN) platform in a way that promises to make it simpler to enforce security policy across switches from multiple vendors as well as multiple cloud services […]

One of the biggest challenges with shifting applications from an on-premises environment into a public cloud is the sheer volume of data that often needs to be moved. The amount of time and effort involved in a cloud migration for many IT organization has been nothing less than daunting. Veritas Technologies today announced it has […]

In much the same way that banks rely on algorithms to identify potential fraudulent transactions, Oracle today announced it is applying machine learning algorithms to a suite of Oracle Security Operation Center cloud services in a way that makes it easier to identify anomalous user behavior. Andy Smith, senior director of product development for Oracle’s […]

Before too long, most organizations will find themselves inundated with multiple types of cognitive computing applications accessed via bots capable of supporting multiple types of conversational interfaces. IPsoft this week at a Digital Workforce Summit event unveiled an updated Amelia bot that can now make decisions based on new data in real time, in addition […]

The amount of time that passes between when data is collected and actionable intelligence is created keeps getting narrower with each passing day. Tableau Software this week released a version 10.3 update to its data visualization and analytics software that leverages machine learning algorithms to recommend and identify different sets of data that should be […]

There are still a lot more paper forms being processed than would otherwise be if it were not for the fact that in a lot of scenarios, organizations need to acquire a dedicated scanner. Adobe Systems today moved to eliminate that requirement by making it much simpler to use a tablet or smartphone to capture […]

As part of an ongoing effort to allow IT organizations to consume only the exact amount of public cloud computing resources they need, Google this week announced it has removed the memory caps attached to any virtual machine. In addition, Google claims it has become the first public cloud provider to make the latest generation […]