Mike Vizard

8 Reasons the Enterprise Needs More Visibility into the Cloud While VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) may have finally pledged to play nice with one another at some future date, there are a lot of IT organizations that want to be able to create a hybrid cloud spanning the two platforms today. As one […]

How to Evaluate Predictive Analytics for Your Business Aiming to provide IT organizations with a suite of analytics applications that can be managed as a cloud application, SAP this week at an SAP TechEd 2016 Barcelona conference announced that its portfolio of SAP BusinessObjects Analytics applications can now run on top of the SAP HANA […]

To Converge or to Hyperconverge: Why Not Both? At a .NEXT Europe conference today, Nutanix took the next logical step in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) by embedding network virtualization and security technologies into its core platform. Prabu Rambadran, director of product marketing at Nutanix, says IT organizations that opt to deploy Nutanix Acropolis Microsegmentation Services (AMS) […]

How Developers Balance Speed and Quality At the SAP TechEd 2016 Barcelona conference today, SAP filled in some of the gaps in an evolving strategy for processing and managing data that spans several distributed sources. While the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform continues to be the database at the core of the company’s strategy, SAP […]

5 Core Components for Successful App Development Fierce debates over the various approaches to developing Web versus mobile applications have been taking place for several years now. At a SenchaCon 2016 conference today, Sencha is aiming to put one of those debates to rest by adding support for JavaScript ES2015 to its Ext JS framework […]

Study Shows that Hybrid Storage Plays a Crucial Role in Mitigating Virtualization Issues When it comes to storage in or out of the cloud, the issue is no longer so much where data is located as much as how easy it is to manage. Data is often still going to wind up in both places. […]

5 DDoS Myths Debunked Thanks to a recent spate of high-profile distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the robustness of the DNS platforms that every organization relies on to access the internet has become a significant issue. Against that backdrop, Infoblox today released an upgrade to its Infoblox NIOS software that makes it possible to […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 In advance of a SAP TechEd Barcelona conference this week, SAP today moved to turn the SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) into an application integration hub by offering more extensive support for application programming interfaces (APIs) and the ability to run third-party applications using virtual machines that it […]

How to Monitor Networks While On Vacation At the SpiceWorld 2016 conference this week, Spiceworks turned its attention to networking issues that are getting more complex in the age of the cloud. To help IT administrators cope with those issues, Spiceworks unveiled a raft of free networking tools, including a Traceroute tool for identifying networking […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 Red Hat today delivered an update to its Linux platforms that addresses everything from how packets are transferred across a network, to the way containers are managed, to the types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can be connected, to securing the overall IT environment. On the […]

5 Trends Impacting the Future of Machine Data Intelligence The wide majority of products and services are not actually sold directly by the entity that created them to the people or organizations that consume them. Most businesses rely on what is known as an indirect channel, made up of resellers and distributors, to get their […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise Sometime shortly after the turn of this decade, IT organizations should witness the arrival of servers capable of maximizing a new generation of high-speed nonvolatile memory that is supposed to begin arriving next year. A Gen-Z Consortium formed by AMD, ARM, Cavium Inc., Cray, Dell EMC, Hewlett […]