Mike Vizard

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization In an era when usage of APIs is approaching unprecedented levels, the management of the workflow process associated with developing hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of APIs has become exceedingly complex. To bring some order to the API chaos, Postman this week launched a platform for […]

5 Ways to Solve the Open Source Industry’s Biggest Problems After years of effort, it appears that some progress is finally starting to be made in terms of making the OpenStack management framework accessible to the average IT organization. Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10, an instance of the […]

5 Trends Impacting the Future of Machine Data Intelligence IT organizations looking to apply real-time analytics against machine data have historically needed to make a choice between using an open source NoSQL database or an instance of Hadoop that is not especially fast or licensing a proprietary platform that could get prohibitively expensive. Aiming to […]

Why and How to Build an Enterprise App Store Just about everybody is familiar with how responsive mobile applications from Uber and Facebook are in terms of being able to provide updates in near real time as events change. But building those applications requires a massive amount of engineering skill and effort. Aiming to reduce […]

5 New Use Cases for the Public Cloud As many organizations start to come to terms with Big Data, one of things that they are discovering is a need to regularly interact with data stored both locally and in a public cloud. To make that simpler to achieve, Quantum Corp. today unveiled an update to […]

E-Commerce: 5 Strategies to Drive Revenue over the Holidays People have been using text messaging to communicate with one another for years. But any conversation using text messaging with a company has been decidedly one-sided. Salesforce today unveiled a Salesforce LiveMessage service that organizations can employ to communicate in a bi-directional manner using services such […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World Most software-as-a-service (Saas) applications get subscribed to first by a line of business manager who, before too long, winds up dumping the management of that application back on the internal IT department. That internal IT organization can then find itself managing hundreds of SaaS applications […]

10 Ways to Improve Your Social Media Security Policy and Posture While there may be a fair amount of concern over to what degree cognitive computing platforms such as IBM Watson might one day replace IT professionals, there’s general agreement that when it comes to IT security, most IT professionals are simply overwhelmed by the […]

Given the fact that most IT organizations don’t physically upgrade their network switches for several years, one of the best ways to add new functionality is going to be via software upgrades. To make that possible, Brocade this week unveiled additions to its line of SLX switches that include a programmable ASIC. Nabil Bukhari, vice […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know It’s now apparent to even the most casual of IT observers that large numbers of application workloads are now running in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. But while deploying a new workload in AWS is a relatively simple endeavor, moving an existing application workload into […]

5 Reasons Why You Need Backup for Office 365 At the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference, Workspot this week announced that it will deliver a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering via the Microsoft Azure cloud. While Workspot has an existing relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Brad Peterson, vice president of marketing for Workspot, […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World One of the things that many end users and IT departments alike don’t often appreciate is just how repetitive business process integration can really be. Multiple departments frequently request the same basic type of integration multiple times over. To make it simpler to service those […]