Mike Vizard

Organizations of all sizes are starting to make a rapid transition to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) as part of a concerted effort to reduce their networking costs and inject some additional agility into their operations. CA Technologies is now extending the reach of its SD-WAN performance analytics tool to include support for IWAN offerings […]

Now that cybercriminals have made it painfully obvious that employees are the weakest link when it comes to IT security, a lot more attention is starting to be paid to being able to recover data in the event of, for example, a ransomware attack. With that goal in mind, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has updated […]

Most mobile computing applications deployed in the enterprise make use of a local database to provide a richer end-user experience. But with the rise of serverless computing frameworks, developers of those applications now have another option. Realm, a provider of a mobile application development platform for building interactive applications, announced today it is making available […]

A number of use cases involving distributed transactions that employ blockchain technologies to create a distributed ledger are now starting to emerge. IBM today announced it is launching an IBM Blockchain Founder Accelerator program to help organizations develop pilot projects using blockchain technologies. New additions to the IBM blockchain portfolio announced at the WIRED Money […]

Document databases have emerged as the most widely used type of NoSQL database in the enterprise. MarkLogic this week announced it is making its implementation of a document database more secure as well as simpler to manage and integrate. Announced at the MarkLogic 2017 User Conference this week, Joe Pasqua, executive vice president for products […]

They say salespeople need to always be closing, but that’s hard to do when it’s hard to tell a customer exactly what something will cost at the precise moment they are ready to buy. To help salespeople close deals while they are standing in front of the customer, SugarCRM this week announced it has revamped […]

For several years now, Google has been employing a variety of technologies to drive Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as the Nest thermostat. This week, Google announced it is now making those technologies available as a cloud service that organizations can employ to host their own applications. Indranil Chakraborty, head of Google cloud product management, […]

At the SAP Sapphire Now and ASUG 2017 conference today, SAP moved to improve the analytics capabilities in both its ERP application and the dedicated suite of analytics applications it provides. In addition, SAP announced it will be collaborating with IBM to integrate Watson with the Internet of Things (IoT) elements of the SAP Leonardo […]

When it comes to application and data integration, there are a lot of tasks that organizations wind up manually implementing multiple times over. Informatica today at the Informatica World 2017 conference announced the time has come to use artificial intelligence to automate application and data integration. Amit Walia, executive vice president and chief product officer […]

At the SAP Sapphire Now and ASUG 2017 conference today, SAP laid out an ambitious plan to consolidate a broad range of offerings into a single line of products and services that collectively promise to make it simpler for organizations to launch a digital business transformation project. Mike Flannagan, senior vice president for analytics and […]

As part of an evolving multi-cloud strategy, VMware today announced that it is making available the control plane it developed for managing virtual desktops on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Courtney Burry, senior director of product marketing for VMware, says Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure gives IT organizations yet another public cloud option for deploying a […]

By the first half of next year, IBM is promising to have developed a complete range of NVMe-based storage offerings that should significantly accelerate the transition to all-Flash storage systems. Eric Herzog, chief marketing officer and vice president of marketing and management for IBM storage and software-defined infrastructure, says IBM has already developed several technologies […]