Mike Vizard

As cloud computing evolves, it turns out that locally deployed appliances are turning into gateways to a variety of cloud services that either extend or augment a local function. Barracuda Networks this week unveiled two examples involving its own services and that of a third-party partner. Barracuda Networks today announced Barracuda Backup LiveBoot 2.0, which […]

There’s no doubt that in terms of frameworks for developing applications, Node.js has emerged as a clear favorite among the many derivatives of Javascript. But as IT organizations move to deploy Node.js applications, many of them are encountering roadblocks in the form of compliance issues. No central authority exists that assures an organization that any […]

Now that Mitel has decided to focus all of its efforts on unified communications, CEO Rich McBee says Mitel is in the final stages of readying an application programming interface (API) that will foster integration with a wide variety of third-party applications and services. McBee says CloudLink will also be instrumental in ushering in a […]

When it comes to data management, SAP has been pursuing a dual strategy anchored around the SAP HANA in-memory computing database and SAP Vora, an instance of Hadoop and the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework. At the Strata + Hadoop World 2017 conference today, SAP made it clear that both platforms are now equal citizens […]

At the Strata + Hadoop World 2017 conference today, MapR Technologies announced a smaller instance of its platform for processing Big Data analytics applications that has been optimized for Internet of Things (IoT) environments. Dale Kim, senior director of industry solutions for MapR, says instead of trying to push all IoT data back to a […]

As the number of application workloads IT organizations are being required to manage steadily increases, inside and out of the cloud, an ability to master load balancing has become a lot more important. In fact, more organizations are looking for a way to programmatically manage load balancing across multiple types of cloud computing deployment models. […]

Getting developers to address security issues during the development of their applications as opposed to after they have been deployed is a cherished goal of most IT organizations. Fixing a security issue after an application is deployed is obviously several orders of magnitude more expensive. To help drive awareness of security into the application development […]

As organizations look to become more agile in the age of digital business, one of the first issues they routinely encounter is how rigid their supply chains are. Most supply chains are designed to optimize the delivery of a handful of variations of a product at a time when customers are demanding more customization than […]

Google this week shored up its case for being viewed as a major public cloud service provider (CSP) via a bevy of updates designed to make Google Cloud Platform (GCP) more broadly applicable to enterprise IT organizations. New offerings launched at the Google Cloud Next 2017 conference included a beta release of an implementation of […]

For some time now, Facebook has been sharing the IT infrastructure technology it developed to run its own IT operations with the rest of the IT community via the Open Compute Project (OCP). At the OCP U.S. Summit 2017 conference this week, Facebook refreshed almost the entire OCP portfolio, including adding a much denser Tioga […]

At a time when primary data is increasingly being stored in Flash memory directly attached to a server, finding a way to make that data readily accessible to multiple servers has become a challenge. To address that issue, Excelero this week made available version 1.1 of NVMesh Server SAN software that makes it possible for […]

As multiple clouds become the new IT normal, software vendors are starting to make their offerings available via multiple cloud service providers. At the Gartner Data and Analytics conference this week, Teradata joined those ranks by announcing it will extend the managed services it provides around its software to both the Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]