Mike Vizard

CIOs and CMOs: Creating a Positive Online Customer Experience The intersection of natural language and multiple forms of cognitive computing is one of the hottest emerging technologies being incorporated into applications. Against that backdrop, Nuance Communications today announced it is acquiring TouchCommerce, a provider of a suite of e-commerce applications that makes use of natural […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise After a wave of resistance to IT automation, many IT organizations may very well find themselves in the position of having too many automated things to manage. To help make managing IT automation simpler, Red Hat today unveiled a revamped version of its Tower management console. Tim Cramer, head of […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading The top two reasons that IT organizations embrace cloud computing services come down to cost and agility. But as cloud computing matures, it’s also becoming apparent that some IT services can be delivered much more simply in the cloud than on premises. To illustrate that point, […]

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs Almost a year after acquiring the Mashery application programming interfaces (API) management platform from Intel, TIBCO Software today unfurled a Mashery Enterprise offering that now includes the ability to compose and choreograph APIs. Kevin Bohan, director of product marketing for integration technologies at TIBCO Software, says […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center For some time now, two distinct types of networking architectures have been embracing the notion of being software defined. The first category involves the deployment of software-defined networks using a new generation of controllers and network virtualization overlays. The second involves managing wide area networks (WANs) […]

When the Boss Leaves, What Data Is at Risk? Thanks to a wave of attacks and some controversial requests for data on the part of a number of government entities, usage of encryption has increased considerably in the last year. The challenge facing many IT organizations is figuring out how to manage the ongoing usage […]

Attack the Stack: 5 Tips for Successful Cloud Deployment When it comes to OpenStack, just about any kind of storage system can be hooked up to the open source framework for managing cloud deployments. But when it comes to connecting object-based storage that scales, most IT organizations look to a Swift open source project that […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know For most of its existence, DigitalOcean has provided a cloud service that specifically served the needs of individual developers. Aiming for the first time to sign up corporate accounts in the form of small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), DigitalOcean has announced that it is making available block storage in […]

One of the realities of IT these days is that most organizations have to assume that the security of any endpoint is going to be compromised at some point. While trying to protect that endpoint is still a noble endeavor, the bigger issue is what to do once an endpoint has been compromised. enSilo created […]

5 Steps to Wrangle Uncontrolled Data Flow In theory at least, the network is the perfect place to gather analytics about every aspect of the business because it touches everything. In practice, converting all those bits and bytes into actionable intelligence has been expensive and challenging to accomplish. Aiming to reduce the complexity and cost […]

5 VM Routing Mistakes Made in Private Clouds Arguably, about the only thing harder than building a private cloud based on OpenStack is maintaining it once it’s deployed. Aiming to reduce that pain, Mirantis this week released an update to its distribution of OpenStack, based on the Mitaka release, that makes it simpler to manage […]

Top 5 Tips for Building a Fail-Safe Network Most applications are made up of individual workloads that are distributed across multiple processors. And often, those workloads run on different machines that are connected to each other across a virtual network. The problem is that most network managers don’t have a lot of visibility into how […]