Mike Vizard

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch At the Hannover Messe 2016 conference today, GE Digital unfurled its first commercial application running on top of the GE Predix cloud analytics platform. Built on top of an instance of open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) software, Predix is at the heart of an ambitious […]

12 Must-Have Travel Accessories Looking to become more competitive in the 2-in-1 notebook PC market, Acer this week unveiled the Switch Alpha 12. Instead of using fans to cool its system, the 2-in-1 notebook makes use of a unique cooling system that relies on the heat generated by the device to push liquid around the […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed that it has been working on Project Natick, the deployment of a small data center underwater off the Pacific coast. Now Microsoft is gearing up for the next phase of Project Natick, the deployment of a data center about the size of a container […]

Flash Storage Architecture: What’s Available and Why It Matters Looking to make it significantly simpler to deploy the OpenStack cloud management framework, Mirantis this week unveiled two additional classes of pre-configured appliances via separate partnerships. One partnership is with Supermicro and Arista Networks and the other is with QCT and Cumulus Networks. In addition, Mirantis […]

Flash Storage Architecture: What’s Available and Why It Matters IT organizations are going to have to get used to the idea that there are multiple types of containers that are optimized for different use cases. For example, there are containers such as Docker that can run on bare metal servers and virtual machines. Then there […]

7 Characteristics of a Data-Driven Organization While the Internet of Things (IoT) is surrounded by a lot of exuberance, IT organizations will need to address many tactical issues before IoT applications become an everyday reality. At the top of that list are data compression and connectivity. To address those issues, WindSpring next month will unveil […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges One of the more challenging tactical issues associated with making the move to the public cloud is the physical act of moving terabytes of data. It can take weeks to move that amount of data across a wide area network. For that reason, most IT organizations wind up buying […]

Rethinking Application Performance in the Digital Business Era As part of an effort to improve the performance of Web applications, NGINX continues to blur the line between where a Web server, also known as an application delivery controller, ends and an application server begins. The latest version of NGINX Plus, the enterprise edition of the […]

Rethinking Application Performance in the Digital Business Era At the NABshow 2016 conference today, IBM unveiled what it claims to be the first-ever open video transport solution capable of delivering high-quality, live streaming video over a standard Internet connection. Based on technology IBM gained when it acquired Aspera, the FASPstream software developed by the Aspera […]

Study Pinpoints IT Security’s Top Data Security Concerns When it comes to IT security, most IT organizations are hopelessly outgunned and undermanned. Modern digital criminals have access to far more sophisticated tools than IT organizations have to defend against them, and the proceeds from their previous attacks give them funds they use to develop even […]

5 DevOps Trends Businesses Should Adopt this Year Thanks mainly to the incorporation of location into a wide range of applications, interest in graph databases has spiked considerably. The challenge many IT organizations face, however, is that they don’t necessarily want to have to manage a separate database to provide that functionality to their applications. […]

5 Trends Impacting the Future of Machine Data Intelligence For all the promise of IT, the underlying infrastructure that most applications rely on today isn’t all that smart. Most IT infrastructures issue a continuous stream of alerts and alarms that do more harm than good. The volume of noise being generated about minor events winds […]