Mike Vizard

5 Questions CIOs and CFOs Need to Ask to Prepare for IoT Unlike traditional enterprise IT environments where the data center is at the core of almost every function, IT deployments involving the Internet of Things (IoT) are going to push processing out to edge of the network as much as possible in order to […]

Automation of any given end-to-end process represents something akin to business nirvana. The basic idea is that the process is so well defined and repeatable that just about every cost associated with delivering it can be driven out. The challenge is that most business processes wind up touching so many applications and systems that the […]

5 Essential Incident Response Checklists At a NXTWORK 2016 user conference today, Juniper Networks unveiled extensions to its software-defined security architecture that enable security policies to be enforced all the way down to specific network ports. Scott Miles, senior director of cloud, enterprise and security portfolio marketing for Juniper Networks, says new Policy Enforcer software […]

Building High-Growth IT: 5 Things to Know Now As part of an effort to integrate mainframes with any number of approaches to DevOps, Compuware today announced it is adding support for REST application programming interfaces (APIs) to the ISPW source code management software it gained by acquiring ISPW Benchmark Technologies Ltd. at the beginning of […]

5 Ways to Solve the Open Source Industry’s Biggest Problems For some time now MariaDB has been gaining traction as an open source relational database alternative to both MySQL and commercial offerings from Oracle and IBM. One of the less appreciated reasons for that shift is the availability of a database proxy software known as […]

How to Evaluate Predictive Analytics for Your Business Last year, IBM put a stake in the ground by identifying the open source Apache Spark in-memory computing framework as a strategic initiative around which it would build what amounts to a data analytics operating environment. This week, IBM put some more meat on the bones of […]

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization As long as their privacy can be maintained, most customers are generally enthused when they visit a website that seems to know and remember their preferences. The e-commerce challenge that most organizations face is that most of the information they have about a customer resides in a […]

10 Critical Responsibilities of the Cybersecurity Manager More organizations than ever are now relying on Microsoft Office 365 as a service to access widely used personal productivity applications. But not many of those organizations have a lot of visibility into how susceptible those files might be to potential security threats. To address that specific issue, […]

How Hadoop Is Being Used for Business Operations Today When it comes to data, SAP has been pursuing a dual strategy. On the one hand, SAP is driving adoption of in-memory computing using the HANA database to enable both faster transactions and real-time analytics. The other half of the strategy is anchored by SAP HANA […]

Securing AD for Hybrid Cloud Environments At the Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference today, Dell EMC expanded its alliance with Microsoft in a way that is designed to further narrow the divide between on-premises IT environments and the Microsoft Azure cloud. The Dell EMC unit of Dell Technologies is now making available backup and business continuity […]

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization As interest in all things relating to microservices has increased, the number of options available for building and managing IT environments based on microservices has expanded to include two fundamental approaches. The first relies primarily on containers such as Docker that are simple to configure and deploy. […]

At the annual Splunk Worldwide User’s Conference today, Splunk unveiled a series of updates to its portfolio that significantly expand how machine learning can be applied to improve IT operations. The latest versions of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud expand the usage of machine learning in the core platform to make it possible to analyze […]