Mike Vizard

How to Transform into an Insight-Driven Enterprise In a lot of IT organizations, an artificial line runs between IT infrastructure and the software that runs on top of it. The result is that a lot of time and energy is wasted as the different groups responsible for managing each dicker back and forth over who […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading While many IT organizations still have mixed emotions when it comes to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the fact remains that the application programming interfaces that AWS has developed are becoming de facto public cloud computing standards. Recognizing that, Scality today is updating its object storage system […]

Before You Buy: 5 Tips for Choosing Dev Software More innovative technologies are available today that organizations can invoke than ever. The downside of all that innovation is that building an application has never been more complex. To help reduce that complexity, Mendix at the Mendix World 2106 conference today announced Mendix 7, an update […]

The Role of IT in the Cloud Era Given the cost, frustration with and general shortage of application developers, organizations of all sizes are looking for alternative ways to let end users build and customize their own applications. With that goal in mind, in 2015, Salesforce created Salesforce Lightning, a framework designed to enable end […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges Rather than call IT every time an issue arises, many end users now routinely make use of “time machine” capabilities provided by Microsoft and Apple to refresh and literally restore their systems back to a time before the issue. Now Datos IO is applying that same concept to NoSQL […]

How to Transform into an Insight-Driven Enterprise Looking to make it significantly simpler for the average organization to embrace advanced analytics, IBM today announced a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) for building analytics applications aimed at data scientists of almost any skill level. Ritika Gunnar, vice president, Offering Management, Data and Analytics at IBM, says […]

Flash Storage Architecture: What’s Available and Why It Matters By this time, it’s not much of a secret that Lenovo has had designs on being a major player in the data center, ever since it moved to acquire the x86 server business of IBM. Today, in advance of a Lenovo TechWorld event this week, Lenovo […]

6 Reasons Why Business Resiliency Is Within Reach Disaster recovery in the age of the cloud is a paradox in that it’s simultaneously simpler and more complex. The simpler part is that IT organizations don’t have to stand up entire data centers on their own to accomplish it. There is now a plethora of cloud […]

10 Surprising Ways Automation Can Simplify IT Arguably, the history of computing in the data center could be defined by the latest attempt to pack as much compute power as possible into the smallest amount of physical space possible. Keeping that goal in mind, Dell today unveiled Project Triton, an ambitious effort to create an […]

5 Ways Retailers Can Best Leverage Data Analytics As part of an effort to reduce the overhead associated with deploying Internet of Things (IoT) applications, IBM and Cisco today announced the formation of an alliance that promises to bring Watson analytics to the edge of the network. The approach will enable companies to apply Watson […]

Increasing Enterprise Application Performance with Route Optimization Utilization rates across clusters running Big Data applications leave a lot to be desired. While, clearly, a massive amount of data needs to be processed, not all of it is active at any given time. As a result, utilization rates of clusters made up of bare metal servers […]

One of the more common misperceptions about containers is that they can only be employed within the context of lightweight stateless applications that don’t require any use of persistent storage. In reality, large numbers of databases that require access to persistent storage are starting to be deployed on containers. To accelerate that process, CoreOS today […]