Mike Vizard

Selecting a Cloud Service: 5 Questions to Ask Prospective Providers One of the most frustrating and expensive aspects of cloud computing is the time and expense associated with moving data into Microsoft Office 365. To help simplify that process, Cloudtenna in collaboration with Microsoft today announced they are working together to employ metadata making it […]

Data-Centric Approach Starves Data-Hungry Cybercriminals Given the current state of IT security, traditional anti-virus software installed on endpoints is not nearly as effective as it once might have been. In recognition of that new reality, Sophos today launched a next-generation endpoint security offering that enables IT organizations to address zero-day attacks as well as various […]

How Developers Balance Speed and Quality What actually constitutes DevOps tends to vary widely by IT organization, but the one thing most of these efforts have in common is some form of continuous integration (CI) platform. Aiming to support interoperability across all the various tools, CloudBees, developer of the Jenkins CI platform, today announced a […]

How Hadoop Is Being Used for Business Operations Today One of the bigger challenges associated with any Big Data project is mastering the interplay between all the technologies such an initiative entails. Between Hadoop and a host of associated platforms such as the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework and the Kafka messaging system, there’s a […]

5 Best Practices for iOS Enterprise MDM As part of a previously announced alliance, Cisco and Apple today unveiled the benefits of a joint effort to make it easier to integrate Apple mobile computing devices with enterprise networks. With the formal release today of Apple iOS 10, IT organizations can now prioritize what applications get […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading At a Riverbed Disrupt event today, Riverbed Technology expanded its portfolio of software-defined wide area networking technologies via a series of integrations delivered via the cloud. The latest version of the Riverbed SteelConnect software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) now not only spans Internet and MPLS networks, […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise Aiming to pioneer a new category of network offerings, Aerohive Networks today announced what it describes as the first software-defined local area network (SD-LAN) spanning both wired and wireless networking environments. Milind Pansare, director of strategic marketing for Aerohive Networks, says an SD-LAN architecture being defined by Aerohive Networks manifests […]

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization At a Teradata Partners 2016 conference today, Teradata announced that it is not only making its database available on both public and private clouds, IT organizations for the first time will be able to launch queries against those databases as if they were one logical […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading One of the biggest challenges when it comes to hybrid cloud computing spanning multiple platforms is that, most of the time, the IT environments in question are very different from one another. For example, VMware may dominate the enterprise. But in the realm of the public […]

5 Security Steps to Protect Users from Ransomware Unlike almost any other type of security threat, ransomware captures the attention of IT professionals and business executives alike because in a matter of minutes the entire organization can become paralyzed. Once a cybercriminal encrypts an organization’s data using ransomware, the only two options are to cough […]

CIOs and CMOs: Creating a Positive Online Customer Experience Because it’s much easier to sell a new product or service to an existing customer than it is to a new one, almost every organization has been trying to create some kind of online community around their Web presence, often with mixed results. To make building […]

Top 6 Trends that Impact Your Security Posture At a time when passwords are routinely compromised, interest in other forms of authentication has never been higher. The real challenge is finding a way to manage all the forms that authentication is likely to take. With that issue in mind, Identity Automation, a provider of identity […]