Mike Vizard

E-Commerce: 5 Strategies to Drive Revenue over the Holidays A bot at its core is a piece of software capable of performing the same repetitive task multiple times over. While bots are not necessarily a new idea, coupling bots with natural language capabilities and advances in machine learning algorithms is making it possible for bots […]

Data Storage Today: Key Takeaways from VMworld 2016 While the shift to object-based storage enables IT organizations to better handle massive amounts of data, it also creates the opportunity for more contention when it comes to accessing that data. Aiming to provide more insight into potential I/O contention issues, Qumulo this week released an update […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Given the increased density of data center environments thanks to advances in multi-core processors, Flash memory, and the rise of containers, it’s little wonder that more attention is starting to be paid to IT monitoring. In fact, so much so that Virtual Instruments this week announced […]

7 Ways the Internet of Things Will Impact ITSM One of the more often overlooked benefits of cloud computing is that it provides a mechanism through which all kinds of data that was previously inaccessible can now be made part of multiple mainstream applications. Case in point is Autodesk, which at an Autodesk University 2016 […]

In the wake of the recent presidential election, it’s obvious to many more people that a fair number of flaws can arise when the models used to construct predictions using Big Data analytics are not especially transparent. Aiming to solve that issue, Domino Data revealed today it has generated an additional $10.5 million funding to […]

At the CA World 2016 conference today, CA Technologies continued to zero in on optimizing DevOps across both distributed and mainframe systems, including for the first time making use of machine learning algorithms to predict systems issues that will affect mainframe application performance before they occur. Ayman Sayed, chief product officer for CA Technologies, says […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World There’s clearly a lot of excitement concerning the business potential of everything and almost anything relating to the Internet of Things (IoT). Less appreciated, however, is the fact that an IoT project is arguably going to be the most complex distributed computing project any IT […]

These days, collecting data is a relatively trivial and inexpensive exercise. Making sense of it is another matter altogether. To address that issue, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) unveiled Hitachi Content Intelligence, a suite of search and analytics applications that makes it simpler to navigate the relationships between sets of data stored in an object-based HDS […]

5 Steps to Wrangle Uncontrolled Data Flow The two largest providers of public cloud services at this point are clearly Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Now those two cloud services can share access to a common Big Data platform. Hortonworks today announced that Hortonworks Data Cloud (HDC) is now available on AWS. Previously, […]

Earlier this year, Sisense showed how a business intelligence application could be accessed using a variety of new classes of user interfaces such as Alexa from Amazon or Siri from Apple. Today, Sisense announced that it has developed bot technology as part of a Sisense Everywhere initiative that allows its BI application to respond for […]

Beyond simply making it possible to run ERP applications faster on top of the SAP HANA in-memory databases, SAP is now starting to deliver new capabilities in its ERP suite that can only be made possible using a platform that can support real-time transactions and analytics simultaneously. To enable that convergence, Sven Denecken, senior vice […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 While some phenomenal strides have been made in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the last few years, the opportunity to redefine the relationship between mankind and machines is just now being explored. At an IBM Watson Developer conference this week, IBM unveiled Project Intu, an effort […]