Mike Vizard

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges Having lost faith in industry standards groups that are dominated by vendors, the Open Network User Group (ONUG) announced this week that it intends to set the IT network integration agenda from here on out. Speaking at the ONUG Spring 2016 conference this week, Nick Lippis, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder […]

5 New Use Cases for the Public Cloud As part of an overall strategy to make its cloud service the preferred destination of backing up files with enterprise IT organizations, Verizon Enterprise Solutions today announced it has partnered with Actifio, a provider of data virtualization tools that make it simpler to copy and move data […]

Data Lakes: 8 Enterprise Data Management Requirements With the rise of microservices architectures and containers, not only are the ways applications are being built transforming, so too are their capabilities. One of the first examples of this transformation comes in the form of a data visualization and analytics application from Zoomdata. Version 2.2 of the […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise At the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Spring 2016 conference today, Glue Networks announced that it is making a development kit available through which IT organizations can extend its network orchestration software across networking equipment from multiple vendors. Glue Networks CEO Jeff Gray says that previously, the company’s Gluware network […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges At a Lenovo Accelerate 2016 conference today, Nutanix revealed that it is working on an appliance in partnership with Lenovo designed specifically to bring hyperconvergence to the small-to-medium business (SMB) market. While neither company provided any actual details, Brian Cox, director of product marketing for Nutanix, says the new […]

5 Defining Tech Trends that Will Shape Business At the IoT World 2016 conference today, SAP announced it is extending the reach of its Internet of Things (IoT) ambitions with the launch of a platform for filtering, aggregating and correlating data in real time using the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform. At the same time, […]

6 Challenges Health Care Executives Face with Data Governance Following the tragic event surrounding the shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school, VeepWorks set out to build a platform making use of near-field communications (NFC) and Big Data that alerts individuals in the event of an emergency in a specific location regardless of where they […]

5 Mobile Development Trends for 2016 Building mobile applications is always a complex endeavor. Many pieces typically have to be pulled together and then tested on multiple platforms. To help simplify that process, at least in the context of Android applications, Genymobile has created Genymotion Cloud, a service that provides access to Android emulation software […]

Data Lakes: 8 Enterprise Data Management Requirements At the EMC World 2016 conference this week, EMC previewed an all-Flash implantation of an EMC Isilon storage system, code named Nitro, that will scale out to provide access to 100 petabytes of storage. Chirantan Desai, president of the Emerging Technologies Division of EMC, says Nitro will be […]

Before You Buy: 5 Tips for Choosing Dev Software While there’s no denying the increasing popularity of Node.js in the enterprise, there are still concerns about how best to secure and manage the applications built using the JavaScript framework. From an IT operations perspective, many of those Node.js applications are essentially a black box into […]

Cloud Contracts: Six Items CIOs Need to Know Before Signing At the EMC World 2016 conference today, EMC announced that it is partnering with Primary Data to make it simpler to integrate EMC storage systems with each other as well as public cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services. Primary Data has created a […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading Later this year, Virtustream, the public cloud computing arm of EMC, will make available a distribution of the Cloud Foundry platform as a service (PaaS) environment curated by Pivotal, another EMC sister company, as part of an effort to significantly expand the number and types of […]