Mike Vizard

As more enterprise IT organizations embrace the MongoDB document database, a much higher percentage of them are starting to be deployed in a cloud managed by MongoDB. In fact, Sahir Azam, vice president of cloud products for MongoDB, says MongoDB expects that half of the customers that pay for it to support the open source […]

Given all the interest in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), it’s natural that competition among all the vendors in the category is now fierce. Cisco today is looking to kick that competition up a few notches with an update to its HyperFlex Systems that adds a distributed file system to make it feasible to run a larger […]

Now that just about everybody has some understanding of how machine and deep learning technologies will drive the next wave of intelligent enterprise applications, the race to be the first to tap into those capabilities is on. Salesforce today unfurled a spring 2017 release of its Einstein service that adds Einstein Vision application programming interfaces […]

Although quantum computing may seem like the stuff of science fiction, it turns out that the cloud is about to play a major role in making quantum computing a much bigger reality. IBM today announced a means of making quantum computing more accessible via the launch of an IBM Q service delivered via the cloud. […]

There’s no doubt at this point that organizations will soon be taking advantage of all sorts of advanced algorithms with a broad range of applications that will collectively make up a new intelligent enterprise. The only real issue is how they will manifest themselves. Pegasystems today announced it has infused the Pega Customer Service and […]

As the algorithms and technologies associated with securing the enterprise become more robust, there is an increasing need to offload the processing of that software from servers and network infrastructure. Nowhere will the need for that capability become more evident as when various forms of blockchain technologies begin to be employed across a broader range […]

Business intelligence applications and spreadsheets have historically been used as decision support tools. Business decisions weren’t necessarily based on what showed up in these applications as much as they were used to support decisions that a business leader intuitively felt were right. But with the rise of more advanced analytics applications, there’s a lot more […]

Not all data is created equal so when it comes to IT security, there’s a need to prioritize levels of risk. There’s certainly value in being able to search a Big Data repository to identify anomalies. But often it’s more important to know of any potential threats targeting specific types of high-value data such as […]

IT organizations today are often confronted with having to support three devices per user thanks to the rise in popularity of tablets. The challenge they face is that traditional PCs aren’t necessarily going away. They are still the primary device used to create content. It’s not uncommon for a user to have a smartphone, tablet […]

One of the issues that confronts any organization investing in an Internet of Things (IoT) project is the high cost of connecting all the sensors and gateways back to the data center. To address that issue, vendors have been working on a Narrow Band-IoT (NB-IoT) standard for Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) environments. At […]

At the Mobile World Congress 2017 conference this week, SAP revealed it is revamping its approach to building enterprise applications to be more inclusive of databases other than the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform. As part of that effort, the SAP HANA Cloud Platform has now been formally renamed the SAP Cloud Platform. In addition […]

How Developers Balance Speed and Quality At the Mobile World Congress 2017 conference today, Dell announced an expansion of its gateways for Internet of Things (IoT) environments as part of a continuing effort to create demand for a turnkey approach to IoT platforms. Rather than building and deploying a custom gateway, Dell is making the […]