Mike Vizard

5 Steps to Wrangle Uncontrolled Data Flow In a move that bodes well for the continued proliferation of open computing across the cloud, Cisco and IBM revealed this week they have a formed a wide-ranging collaboration applications alliance. Under the terms of the agreement, the Cisco Spark and WebEx collaborative workspace platforms will be integrated […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges One of the primary reasons IT is so difficult to manage is that multiple copies of various data sets are strewn all across the enterprise. The reason all these copies exist is manifold. But the end result is a fragmented IT environment that, with each new data set created, […]

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization Self-service IT has been a major trend in IT circles for quite some time now, but now virtual assistants are about to transform the way IT services are delivered in a way most IT organizations never imagined. This week IPsoft previewed an Apollo service through which end […]

Selecting a Cloud Service: 5 Questions to Ask Prospective Providers The days when IT organizations had to manually provision every network service consumed by a branch office are finally, and mercifully, coming to a close. This week, Juniper Networks unfurled a cloud-based approach to software-defined networking (SDN) that enables IT organizations to centrally manage the […]

2016 Cloud Security Trends: Confidence on the Rise Now that cloud computing has for all intents and purposes become a mainstream element of enterprise IT, attention is turning toward securing those services. With that specific issue in mind, Cisco this week announced it has plunked down $293 million to acquire CloudLock, a provider of cloud […]

The Rise of Integrated IT Infrastructure Systems: Top Enterprise Use Cases While scale-out IT architectures are all the rage these days, there are still quite a few new and old applications that benefit more from scale-up architectures like, for example, SAP S/4 enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications running on the HANA in-memory computing platform. There […]

The 5 Best Methods for Drawing Insight out of Machine Data As part of a larger trend that is seeing the management of databases increasingly pushed into the cloud, MongoDB announced today at a MongoDB World 2016 conference that it is making its namesake document database available as a cloud service. Initially available on Amazon […]

CRM Adoption and Gamification: Tips for Success There’s always been some debate over what is actually the most widely used customer relationship management (CRM) application. Salesforce clearly has its proponents. But others contend that the most widely used CRM application is actually the Microsoft Outlook messaging system that most salespeople spend the majority of their […]

The Rise of Integrated IT Infrastructure Systems: Top Enterprise Use Cases Spatial data has been steadily working its way into mainstream enterprise applications for years now. Often taking their cue from consumer applications that make extensive use of the data to add more geographic context to the user experience, developers of business applications now want […]

Flawed Integration Can Destroy Data Quality and Reliability Today the dominant form of middleware in the enterprise remains traditional application servers. The challenge going forward will be integrating application servers written in Java with a new generation of so-called “cloud native” applications. At the Red Hat Summit 2016 conference today, Red Hat moved to enhance […]

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 In a move that promises to significantly reduce the amount of tooling surrounding the development of applications, Red Hat, Microsoft and Codenvy announced today at the DevNation 2016 conference a joint project through which programming languages can be integrated across multiple code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs). […]

2016 Software Trends: The Evolution of Enterprise Software In a move that could considerably expand adoption of application programming interface (API) management platforms, Red Hat this week announced it is acquiring 3Scale. Mike Piech, vice president and general manager of middleware at Red Hat, says one of the first things Red Hat will do once […]