Mike Vizard

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World The combination of bots and voice-enabled natural language interfaces is about to transform the way end users interact with a broad spectrum of applications in 2017. While just about every provider of an application is working to make speech a primary user interface, it may […]

8 Reasons the Enterprise Needs More Visibility into the Cloud Going into 2017, there’s a lot of debate concerning what percentage of application workloads will wind up in public clouds versus in a local data center. Public clouds are obviously growing at a faster rate off a much smaller base of instances. But the number […]

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization For some time now, there’s been something of a revolution under way in terms of how organizations approach application integration. Once solely the domain of professional developers, the last two years have witnessed the steady rise of so-called “citizen integrators.” The challenge this has created […]

Selecting a Cloud Service: 5 Questions to Ask Prospective Providers As public cloud computing platforms become a mainstream element of the enterprise, MarkLogic CEO Gary Bloom predicts IT leaders in 2017 will start focusing more on crafting multi-cloud computing strategies designed to prevent their organizations from getting locked into proprietary cloud computing services. As a […]

5 Ways Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Lowers CapEx and OpEx Thanks to the efforts of The Linux Foundation, the level of interoperability between software-defined storage (SDS) systems should increase substantially in 2017. An OpenSDS project being led by The Linux Foundation now has the support of Dell EMC, which has contributed a software development kit […]

5 Ways to Solve the Open Source Industry’s Biggest Problems Cumulus Networks announced today that as part of an update to its network operating system based on Linux, it will soon give IT organizations access to tools to create their own network virtualization overlays using Ethernet Virtual Private Networks (EVPN). EVPN makes use of an […]

How to Effectively Deliver IT Projects in the Digital Age Significant adoption of online services such as Slack coupled with rival offerings from Microsoft has shown there’s a lot of interest in alternatives to traditional email to facilitate collaboration. One of those alternatives is Flock, which today announced the availability of an application programming interface […]

Selecting a Cloud Service: 5 Questions to Ask Prospective Providers Several integration services capable of being invoked via the cloud have emerged over the past several years. Some of those services has been aimed at professional developers, while others are designed with end users who want to stitch applications together on their own in mind. […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 CA Technologies going into 2017 sent a strong signal that it intends to compete at a much higher level of the software stack by announcing its intent to acquire Automic, a provider of business process automation software, in a deal valued at roughly $636 million. Ayman Sayed, president […]

7 Characteristics of a Data-Driven Organization Most of the interaction any end user is likely to have with cognitive computing capabilities enabled by the IBM Watson platform is via a third-party application that has embedded that functionality within. Now IBM wants to start providing some of those applications itself via the Apple App store. IBM […]

How Hadoop Is Being Used for Business Operations Today One of the reasons that business intelligence (BI) applications were not as widely employed as generally expected was the simple fact that they were generally difficult to set up. IT organizations would have to pull data from a data warehouse into a local sever and then […]

As serverless computing models start to provide more efficient means of utilizing cloud infrastructure, a race is now on among cloud service providers to provide a capability that essentially eliminates the need for application developers to even be aware of virtual machines or the physical servers they happen to be running on. This week, IBM […]