Mike Vizard

5 Core Components for Successful App Development Now that organizations of all sizes have discovered that IT is indeed a competitive weapon, an interesting phenomenon is starting to occur. IT organizations that build their own software are moving to make that software available under an open source license. Case in point is Walmart, which is […]

At the Cisco Partner Summit 2016 conference, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins today pledged to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms in the months ahead as part of an effort to drive analytics, automation and security deep into both the data center and the core networks that connect them. “We’ll be driving AI into the […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges By now most IT organizations are getting used to managing multiple types of databases. The challenge they now face is figuring out how many physical databases they need to deploy in order to support multiple types of application workloads. Today MongoDB has made an update to its namesake database […]

10 Surprising Ways Automation Can Simplify IT Using a more declarative approach to IT automation that doesn’t require IT operations staff to learn how to program has the obvious benefit of being simpler for more IT organizations to embrace. Now Red Hat is extending the reach of that approach with the release today of an […]

How to Use the Cloud to Become a High-Velocity Business As networking and security continue to evolve, it’s becoming more apparent that the management plane is starting to separate entirely from the physical network underlay. As proof of the concept, NTT Innovation Institute has revealed that it is beta testing Project CloudWAN, a framework that […]

Now that data protection spans everything from traditional backup and recovery to compete disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS), managing those processes on an end-to-end basis has never been more challenging. Aiming to simplify that task, IBM this week announced it has acquired Sanovi Technologies, a provider of orchestration and visualization tools optimized for managing data protection. Daniel […]

How to Evaluate Predictive Analytics for Your Business One of the places that Big Data analytics and machine learning is obviously going to have a massive impact is in improving the customer experience. But given both the amount of data involved and the complexity of the programming models involved, it’s becoming more apparent that most […]

5 Questions CIOs and CFOs Need to Ask to Prepare for IoT Aiming to close the divide that currently exists between most operational systems and backend IT platforms that need to converge in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment, SAP this week unveiled a SAP Dynamic Edge Processing server while at the same time updating […]

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization At an IBM World of Watson conference this week IBM announced the IBM Watson Data Platform as part of an effort to democratize access to cognitive computing services enabled by the IBM Watson cloud service. Rob Thomas, vice president of products for analytics for IBM, […]

How to Use the Cloud to Become a High-Velocity Business At the OpenStack Summit conference in Barcelona today, an initiative led by IBM to make good on the original promise of OpenStack interoperability delivered. AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, DreamHost, Fujitsu, Huawei, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC), OVH, Rackspace, […]

5 Questions CIOs and CFOs Need to Ask to Prepare for IoT An Internet of Things (IoT) environment represents one of the most distributed computing endeavors any IT organization is likely to undertake. Intel wants to make sure, to every extent possible, that every system in the distributed IoT environment is running an Intel processor. […]

10 Steps to Smarter IT Ticket Management Most IT service desks are reactionary. Somewhere in the enterprise an event occurs that generates a job ticket that someone on the IT staff then investigates. The length of time it takes to perform that investigation is usually in direct proportion to the amount of frustration the end […]