Mike Vizard

Navigating Your Way Through an IT Road Map At the Black Hat USA 2016 conference today, Armor, a provider of a secure hosting facility, announced that it is extending the framework it uses to secure data inside its own data centers out to the rest of the enterprise. Jeff Schilling, chief security officer for Armor, […]

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization Not too long ago, analytics was something IT organizations invested in separately. But it now appears that some form of analytics is being baked into every packaged application. The latest to join this trend is Magento Commerce, which today announced it has acquired RJMetrics. Magento […]

How to Monitor Networks While On Vacation Most IT organizations don’t have a lack of tools for monitoring various aspects of their IT environments. But correlating all that information into something that represents actionable IT intelligence is often a whole other matter. To expand its portfolio of performance monitoring solutions, Riverbed Technology has acquired Aternity. […]

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization Data visualization has gone from being an esoteric concept to a mainstream element of the business intelligence experience in a few short years. But there’s always room for improvement. In the next few weeks, Tableau Software will make available Tableau 10, an update to its […]

How to Create a Culture of Innovation For as long as anyone cares to remember, organizations have been organizing files on Windows systems by function. Each department is given their own system for organizing files, with access rights to those files generally controlled by the internal IT department. That all worked great until end users […]

Cyber Crime Report Finds Old Breaches Led to New Breaches For some time now, Niara has been making the case for using behavioral analytics to help IT organizations identify normal user activity versus activity that would suggest that a particular user account has been compromised by cybercriminals. This week, Niara added support for machine learning […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know A10 Networks today revealed it has acquired Appcito, a provider of an ADC platform based on a microservices architecture optimized for cloud computing environments. Kamal Anand, CEO and Co-founder of Appcito, says the acquisition of Appcito puts A10 Networks in a better position to service the growing […]

2016 Telecommunications Trends: More Choices, Less Lock-In While most of the focus on wireless networking these days tends to be on access points that are ubiquitously deployed through most enterprises, the most strategic wireless networking decision an IT organization needs to make is where to place the controller functionality that manages all those access points. […]

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 The secret to engaging end users in any application is providing some ability to engage with data in real time. The more frequently data changes within an application, the more often an end user is going to open it to find out what’s changed since the last time […]

Cyber Crime Report Finds Old Breaches Led to New Breaches As part of a larger effort to redefine what encompasses endpoint security, Carbon Black has acquired Confer, a provider of antivirus software that uses heuristics and a cloud-based management platform to change the way IT organizations maintain IT security. Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley says […]

5 Tips for Effectively Implementing a Desktop Virtualization Solution Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has been one of those ideas that promises to make managing IT simpler, but turns out to be too expensive and complex to implement. Because of this, the number of virtual desktops deployed as a percentage of the total desktops in an […]

How to Transform into an Insight-Driven Enterprise One of the bigger challenges associated with building an advanced application that makes extensive use of machine learning algorithms is that everything has to be built from the ground up. There is no readily available database platform that developers can communally invoke to run this class of applications. […]