Mike Vizard

Before You Buy: 5 Tips for Choosing Dev Software Continuous delivery of applications creates a need for a whole lot more testing of the code across the enterprise as the rate at which applications get built starts to exponentially increase. To cope with that increased volume of application testing, many IT organizations have started to […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know The good news these days is that there are more cloud services to share content through than ever. The bad news is that keeping track of what content is seen by whom is a major challenge. At the Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference today, Metalogix announced a software-as-a-service […]

When it comes to application performance in the era of the cloud, the single biggest issue IT organizations need to contend with is network latency. Because of this issue, many IT organizations have taken to deploying their applications as close to a major Internet exchange point as possible. Today, Digital Realty announced that it intends […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Taking the concept of software-defined storage to its next logical conclusion, Hedvig today announced it is developing a Universal Data Plane as part of an update to the Hedvig Distributed Storage System that is designed to span storage systems running on premise and in the cloud. […]

Increasing Enterprise Application Performance with Route Optimization In the age of DevOps, the line between monitoring IT infrastructures and the applications that run on them naturally gets blurry. In recognition of that new reality, Datadog today launched an application performance management service designed to complement its existing IT infrastructure monitoring service. Alex Rosemblat, vice president […]

Flash Storage Architecture: What’s Available and Why It Matters As more IT organizations begin to build out their own private clouds, many of them are struggling with I/O contention issues created when different classes of workloads are required to share access to the same storage. Storage administrators are tasked with manually trying to optimize the […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Not too long ago, the IT world was a simple place from a database perspective. The enterprise was dominated by relational databases that were primarily managed by database administrators (DBAs) that had deep expertise in databases built primarily by Oracle or IBM. Today the database landscape […]

5 Ways to Boost Productivity with Content Automation When it comes to the intersection of business processes and IT, there’s a lot more mystery than most IT professionals care to admit. The typical business process usually spans a broad range of applications running across a variety of distributed IT systems. Keeping track of how any […]

Securing AD for Hybrid Cloud Environments At the IBM Edge 2016 conference today, IBM announced that it has developed new tools for analyzing workloads running on mainframes via the cloud. It is also opening that data up to third parties. Mike Perera, vice president of IBM z Systems Software, says the z Systems for Cloud […]

5 Ways to Solve the Open Source Industry’s Biggest Problems At the SAP TechEd 2016 conference today, SAP unveiled a strategic initiative intended to make it simpler for third-party developers to build applications on top of the SAP HANA in-memory computing database. By launching an Express Edition of the SAP HANA database that developers can […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know Building a cloud-native application that makes use of graphics is one thing. Migrating an existing one to the cloud represents a whole set of other, arguably more complicated, challenges. To address that issue, Teradici today unveiled Cloud Access Software and a Cloud Access Platform, designed primarily to […]

How to Evaluate Predictive Analytics for Your Business No doubt, at this point, IT as a whole is on the cusp of a major revolution involving artificial intelligence (AI). While AI concepts have been around for a while, advances in inexpensive compute capable of processing vast amounts of data are now making it economically feasible […]