Mike Vizard

Rethinking Application Performance in the Digital Business Era As part of an effort to ensure compatibility across multiple distributions of Hadoop, ODPi, a non-profit consortium led by many application providers, today released the ODPi Runtime Specification and associated test suite. John Mertic, director of ODPi, says the goal is to give IT organizations a mechanism […]

Selecting a Cloud Service: 5 Questions to Ask Prospective Providers At an Oracle CloudWorld event this week, Oracle announced that it will give internal IT organizations the option of deploying and managing the software services that make up the Oracle Public Cloud Service on their own private cloud. Oracle president Thomas Kurian says that once […]

6 Ways to Design and Implement Effective Mobile Enterprise Apps Browser-based applications are clearly popular because they spare IT organizations the trouble of having to create a dedicated client. The challenge, of course, is that a browser is one of the least secure ways to deliver an application. To address that issue, Citrix has unveiled […]

How SMBs Can Leverage a Strong Channel Ecosystem to Boost Customer Experience As part of an effort to make it simpler for small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) organizations to provide a holistic customer experience, Salesforce today announced it will deliver a Desk 360 customer support application as a service in the second half of 2016. Katy Dormer, […]

The 5 Essential Traits of Digital Innovators Putting a new application in front of an end user doesn’t necessarily mean they will suddenly be able to do their job better. In fact, for most end users, just figuring out how the application works usually involves a fairly extended learning curve. With that issue in mind, […]

5 Tips for Helping Your Data Scientists Do Their (Intended) Jobs The root cause of a lot of the distrust that often exists between IT and the rest of the business often comes down to the quality of the data being served up in any report. Much of the data that goes into those reports […]

5 Requirements for Effective Self-Service Data Preparation Looking to spur adoption of analytics services in the cloud, Salesforce today unveiled a version of its cloud analytics application specifically designed for organizations that sell products via an extended distribution channel. Ketan Karkhanis, vice president of product management for Wave Analytics Cloud at Salesforce, says Wave Analytics […]

Selecting a Cloud Service: 5 Questions to Ask Prospective Providers As part of an effort to make it much simpler for IT organizations of all sizes to take advantage of hosted computing resources, GoDaddy today unfurled an enhanced GoDaddy Cloud Server service that makes use of a much simpler application programming interface (API) to provision […]

2016 Cloud Security Trends: Confidence on the Rise The sheer amount of code that exists in the average enterprise, along with the number of dependencies that exist between it all, makes managing IT these days a complex undertaking that can easily overwhelm even the most sophisticated of IT departments. Looking to even those odds, Seerene […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading Moving to make it simpler to create a hub for integrating disparate file systems via the cloud, SkySync today announced that its software pre-configured on a virtual machine is now available on the Microsoft Azure cloud service. SkySync CEO Mark Brazeau says that while the company’s […]

5 Mobile Development Trends for 2016 As part of an update to a set of tools aimed at end users that want to build their own mobile applications, Kony today announced that it is making a Starter Edition of Kony Visualizer available for free. Kony Visualizer enables a citizen developer to construct a mobile application […]

Reimagining Business and Tech in the Digital Age Moving to make Apple Macintosh systems a more natural extension of IT environments dominated by Windows, Parallels today released an update for its tools for managing those systems that connect to Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Version 4.5 of Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager […]