Mike Vizard

One of the most perplexing issues facing organizations today is that despite all the investments made in IT, the overall level of productivity has steadily declined over the past decade. Much of the blame for that decline is laid at the feet of personal productivity applications that were never designed to facilitate workflow across large […]

How to Evaluate Predictive Analytics for Your Business One of the myths surrounding Big Data deployments is that the quality of the data is not nearly as important as it has been in most traditional database systems. Over time, any bad data would simply become marginalized by the total amount of data in the system. […]

For several years now, Cumulus Networks has been making the case for a new era of networking under which IT organizations would disaggregate network hardware and software. But it turns out there is still a significant portion of the IT population that want to acquire network hardware and software at the same time. To serve […]

Despite all the IT security risks, many organizations are plowing ahead with digital business initiatives. The assumption that many of them are making is that by investing in higher levels of IT security, those risks not only become manageable, but the level of security they can provide becomes a selling point. F5 Networks, as part […]

As a provider of an in-memory database capable of being deployed on graphical processing units (GPUs) rather than x86 processors, Kinetica really emerged as a new force to be reckoned with last year. Now, Kinetica this week is moving to make it simpler to invoke the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs by making available a […]

In the very near future, most applications are going to incorporate video to enhance collaboration as a standard feature. Instead of end users being required to launch a separate video conference application, they will be able to launch, for example, a video chat that enables then to maintain conversational context within the application. All the […]

To Converge or to Hyperconverge: Why Not Both? Serverless computing is rapidly emerging as one of the favorite ways developers programmatically invoke cloud infrastructure. Instead of having to be aware of how their applications are consuming IT infrastructure, a serverless computing framework employs an event-driven architecture to make additional infrastructure resources available in real time […]

5 Essential Skills for the IT Leader Although most people inside organizations are loath to admit it, the primary reason things are done the way they are is because that’s the way they’ve always been done. Codified in some dusty binder hidden away in a cabinet somewhere are the rationales for various business processes that […]

As IT evolves, the entire way security is approached is starting to fundamentally change. Instead of thinking in term of securing perimeters, savvy IT organizations now think in terms of securing application workloads. This creates a more granular approach to IT security that makes it simpler to apply controls and policies wherever that workload happens […]

When email was first invented, nobody really thought of it as a documents distribution system. These days, however, not only are documents attached to email, but the email itself can be considered a legally binding document. To make it simpler to manage emails as documents, Harmon.ie today upgraded the Information Governance module it makes available […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center In a move portending tighter integration across multiple tiers of storage, StorageCraft Technology Corp. today announced it is acquiring Exablox. As a provider of storage arrays used for primary storage, Exablox has been making the case for allowing IT organizations to plug any drive into its […]

Thanks to the rise of ransomware, data protection is now an issue that end users are actively thinking about. For many, either they or someone they know has become a victim. Today, Acronis made it simpler to defeat these attacks by detecting ransomware attacks in real time to enable end users to recover data being […]