Mike Vizard

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know At the AWS re:Invent 2016 conference today, Splunk extended its alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) by delivering an update to the Splunk App for AWS in addition to making that free tool available for the first time on a Splunk Light instance that is specifically designed […]

How to Assess Your Critical Cloud Service Providers At the AWS re:Invent 2016 conference today, Aviatrix and Megaport announced that they have teamed to change the way end users go about accessing applications hosted on Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Today, many IT organizations essentially backhaul network traffic destined […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence One of the more frustrating aspects of analytics and business intelligence (BI) applications is how dependent end users still are on finding an individual capable of translating all the data stored in myriad applications into something that approaches actionable intelligence. Given how cumbersome and time-consuming that process is, it’s […]

At a Node.js Interactive North America event today, the Node.js Foundation took a significant step toward achieving the goal of virtual machine neutrality by demonstrating a proof of concept implementation of a Node.js API Stable Module Application Programming Interface (NAPI) that makes it possible to deploy Node.js applications on top of multiple types of virtual […]

8 Reasons the Enterprise Needs More Visibility into the Cloud With more data than ever residing on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, the amount of visibility that most IT organizations have into network traffic as it moves in and out of AWS is at best limited. Aiming to provide much needed visibility into […]

8 Reasons the Enterprise Needs More Visibility into the Cloud For some time now, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has been offering impartial advice on how best to go about securing a cloud computing environment. Now CSA is now beta testing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application to help better manage the process. CSA CEO Jim Reavis […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are coming fast and furious these days. But IT organizations would be well-advised to play both the AI long and short game. The short game today is mainly focused on multiple types of so-called deep learning engines that need to be made available […]

5 Core Components for Successful App Development Now that mobile computing devices are pervasive, the line between what constitutes a mobile versus Web application development platform has all but been erased. The latest provider of traditional mobile application development tools to recognize this is Kony. Kony has now embarked on an omni-channel approach to build […]

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization It’s estimated that some 1.2 billion people, roughly equivalent to 16 percent of the world’s population, speak some form of Chinese. Obviously, a lot of developers would like to tap into that market without necessarily having to translate their application into Chinese. To help accelerate […]

One of the more frustrating issues IT organizations now routinely need to deal with is the amount of malware capable of bypassing their firewalls. Because either an end user downloads a file directly or malware is hidden in encrypted traffic the firewall is not able to inspect, the amount of malware making it past the […]

5 Ways to Solve the Open Source Industry’s Biggest Problems Interest in open source network operating systems based on Linux running on a bare-metal switch is high. But not many networking professionals are familiar with platforms based on Linux. To make it simpler to make the switch, Cumulus Networks has created a Network Command Line […]

5 Characteristics Professional IT Consultants Must Possess To one degree or another, IBM has been tapping into Internet of Things (IoT) opportunities even before it launched its Smarter Planet initiatives way back in 2008. At the same time, IBM since 2011 has been steadily building a portfolio of applications combining Big Data analytics and the […]