Mike Vizard

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization One of the biggest challenges with bringing Apple into any enterprise is that many organizations still rely on a lot of Windows applications to conduct business. While the rise of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications has certainly made it easier to employ Apple Macintosh systems in place of a […]

6 Challenges Health Care Executives Face with Data Governance Now that more people than ever have health insurance, there’s a lot more focus these days on trying to drive costs out of the health care system. A cornerstone of that effort is keeping people out of the hospital in the first place. Salesforce last year […]

Five Common Data Encryption Myths Now that organizations have come to realize that the best way to protect their data is to encrypt, usage of various encryption technologies is on the rise. The challenge that many organizations face is that every platform they employ now provides access to some form of unique encryption technology that […]

CRM Adoption and Gamification: Tips for Success IT organizations may soon find themselves managing multiple email clients that have been optimized for specific job functions. As a pioneer of this concept, Salesforce has been making the case for email clients that are optimized for the tasks salespeople need to perform. This week, Salesforce took that […]

One thing that has become apparent over the last year is that, depending on the starting point, there are going to be multiple ways of building a software-defined data center (SDDC). Some organizations will start at the network level and work their way up. Others will find that some form of convergence involving compute and […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network The line between traditional data protection and everyday data management continues to get narrower with each passing day. Fresh off of raising another $61 million in funding, Rubrik today announced a data management platform that spans everything from archiving and compliance to analytics and data […]

2016 Data Storage Trends: DevOps, Flash and Hybrid Cloud As part of a broad effort to accelerate the adoption of Flash storage by small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB), Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today unveiled an entry-level storage array that includes a tier of 800GB of solid-state drives (SSDs) at price points starting just under $10,000. In addition, […]

Data Back Up, Recovery and Erasure: A Guide for Corporate IT Given the potential security benefits of using a blockchain approach to storing data, there’s naturally a lot of interest in applying what amounts to a new method for constructing a distributed database. There’s not much agreement, however, when it comes to how best to […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know At an AWS Summit event today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making available a faster load balancing capability that gives IT organizations more granular control over where and how application workloads run on the AWS cloud. Dr. Werner Vogels, chief technology officer for AWS, told […]

5 Trends Impacting the Future of Machine Data Intelligence One of the most important constituencies in the development of advanced cognitive computing applications these days is the data scientists trying to combine massive amounts of data and various types of algorithms to automate a particular task or process. Today, IBM, in partnership with Columbus Collaboratory, […]

5 Steps to Wrangle Uncontrolled Data Flow The ability to inexpensively collect massive amounts of Big Data using Hadoop is one thing. Being able to manage all that data is another matter altogether. With that issue in mind, Hortonworks today announced the upgrade of a Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) streaming analytics platform with an eye toward […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Network virtualization has emerged as a key tool for injecting flexibility into enterprise networks. Nowhere is that flexibility more needed than when an enterprise IT organization moves to embrace emerging technologies such as the OpenStack management platform and containers such as Docker. Midokura today unveiled a […]