Mike Vizard

At the Enterprise Connect 2017 conference today, Cisco unveiled several new additions to its Spark videoconferencing platform that are designed to make them more affordable to deploy in smaller rooms. Angie Mistretta, senior director of collaboration marketing at Cisco, says the Cisco Spark Room Series are designed to attach to an existing high-definition (HD) screen […]

Phishing attacks, especially in the age of ransomware, have become the scourge of IT. Each year, cybercriminals are employing various levels of automation to now launch millions of phishing attacks. IBM today unveiled a cognitive engine that employs machine learning algorithms to identify fake Web pages linked to phishing attacks 250 times faster than a […]

One of the hurdles that many organizations face when aiming to make use of advanced analytics is the high cost of developing these applications. Because of that issue, there’s naturally a lot of interest in accessing these applications as a cloud service. The issue that many organizations have, however, is that they would like to […]

IBM is working with Intel and HyTrust to provide a means of locking down VMware virtual machines on IBM Cloud. At the IBM InterConnect 2017 conference this week, the three companies unfurled IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization, which makes use of Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) on x86 servers to lock down a VMware virtual machine. […]

For well over a year now, Lenovo has been making a concerted effort to be more relevant in the data center. While the company is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to laptops, the company’s foray into the data center is comparatively nascent. It provides a range of server platforms, including a […]

Now that ransomware has emerged as a major scourge of IT, a lot more attention is being paid to data protection at the highest levels of most organizations. There’s no real cure for ransomware, but the tools for detecting and containing it are getting more sophisticated. Unitrends has updated its backup and recovery appliances to […]

While any number of regulations have created compliance headaches for IT organizations, none may be more profound than the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that the European Union (EU) plans to implement starting May 25, 2018. Key components of a regulation that will affect any organization that interacts with a citizen of the EU include […]

Adobe Systems has for the past several years been steadily investing in an ambitious strategy that aims to centralize any number of workflow applications around an Adobe Cloud service. At an Adobe Summit 2017 conference today, Adobe advanced that strategy by unveiling a common data language, dubbed the Experience Data Model, which enables organizations to […]

There might be a lot of interest in all things relating to the Internet of Things (IoT), but many organizations are discovering that building and deploying what amounts to a massive distributed application is more of a challenge than they can take on themselves. To make it simpler to tap into those IoT opportunities, Bsquare […]

Building an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) service delivered via the cloud is one thing. Making it possible for end users to invoke that platform on their own is quite another. To achieve that latter goal, Dell Boomi has announced it has acquired ManyWho, a provider of low-code service used to automate workflows across a variety of […]

Given the sheer volume of devices and applications that need to be looked after within any enterprise, it’s little wonder there is always some subset that is vulnerable to malware even though the patch that would mediate that vulnerability already exists. At the IBM Interconnect 2017 conference today, IBM announced it plans to give the […]

At the IBM InterConnect 2017 conference today, IBM unfurled a slew of cloud services intended to help enterprise IT organizations take advantage of a wide variety of emerging technologies, including a blockchain platform. As essentially a distributed database, any form of blockchain technology needs to be able to access to a lot of compute horsepower […]