Mike Vizard

9 Critical Questions to Ask Your IT Service Provider Because of the massive amounts of data that many IT organizations are now being asked to routinely manage, there’s a major shift toward object-based storage systems under way. While object storage systems were initially adopted by cloud service providers (CSPs) to provide storage services, enterprise IT […]

How to Keep Productivity High When Working from Home For all the promise of IT, one of the more troubling issues that continues to haunt the entire industry is that productivity per employee has been steadily declining for several years now. Given all the investments in IT, the prevailing assumption would be that productivity would […]

8 Reasons the Enterprise Needs More Visibility into the Cloud Visualization software has been all the rage in business intelligence (BI) software for the past two years. But most small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) find it a challenge to implement BI software in the first place because they don’t always know what to measure. Fresh off raising […]

How Hadoop Is Being Used for Business Operations Today One of the reasons so many Big Data projects are starting to proliferate across the enterprise is that Hadoop made it a lot more affordable to collect massive amounts of data. But collecting data and managing it are not one and the same. This week, Hortonworks […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence The drive to automate a wide range of business tasks using robotic software accelerated today with the announcement of an alliance between Accenture and Blue Prism, a provider of enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) software. Blue Prism CEO Alastair Bathgate says the company has already installed its RPA software […]

How to Effectively Deliver IT Projects in the Digital Age Digital business process transformation on a practical level always involves, to one degree or another, wrapping a workflow around multiple systems of record. To enable those transformations, Epicor Software, a provider of ERP software, this week announced it has acquired docSTAR, a provider of enterprise […]

Navigating Your Way Through an IT Road Map One of the issues most IT organizations find themselves wrestling with is a need to master a wide variety of different tools to manage multiple aspects of the IT environment. Red Hat, for some time now, has been making the case for rationalizing all those tools via […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center As part of a continuing effort to modernize mainframe environments, Compuware today made available an update to a tool that makes it simpler to test logical units of COBOL code while at the same time moving to acquire MVS Solutions, a provider of a tool for […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise Various forms of machine learning algorithms are about to render entire classes of enterprise software obsolete as a new generation of intelligent applications capable of learning business processes starts to be rolled out in 2017. Dr. Satya Ramaswamy, global head of digital enterprise for Tata Consulting Services […]

10 Trends Making Enterprise App Stores Work As part of a larger expansion of the 7th Generation Intel Core and Xeon processor lineup, Intel today unveiled the latest version of the vPro processor family, expected to find their way into millions of business-class desktop, notebooks and tablet devices. Thanks to management and security functions built […]

The 5 Essential Traits of Digital Innovators The cloud clearly has the potential to change the way almost every aspect of IT is managed. Realizing that potential, however, has proven to be something of a challenge over the last few years as the large number of mobile computing devices and cloud services proliferated across the […]

5 Steps to Wrangle Uncontrolled Data Flow Building a Big Data application is one thing. Trying to live with that application over an extended amount of time is another. Xplenty has been squarely focused on the latter by making available a cloud service that simplifies integration of multiple sources of Big Data. Now Xplenty has […]