Mike Vizard

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch While most IT organizations are still held accountable for security breaches, many of them are now judged by the way they respond to a breach when one inevitably occurs. To help those IT organizations put a consistent incident response plan in place, today IBM at the […]

2016 Data Storage Trends: DevOps, Flash and Hybrid Cloud More and more IT organizations are moving to consistently optimize application performance by replacing traditional magnetic storage with Flash memory in one form or another. Because of this, there has probably never been as much storage business up for grabs by vendors. The challenge facing IT […]

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch By almost any definition, the Internet of Things is an exercise in distributed computing at scale. Sending small chunks of data across a wide area network to be processed in some central repository not only doesn’t make much sense because most of that data is meaningless, […]

The Human Factor: 5 Security Blunders People Keep Making Replacing passwords with two-factor authentication frameworks to identify end users is not one of those IT trends that will occur overnight. In fact, passwords may never be replaced completely given the number of legacy applications that make use of them. But that doesn’t mean that progress […]

Data Back Up, Recovery and Erasure: A Guide for Corporate IT Organizations must be able to access massive amounts of data in memory when they need it, but otherwise it can be stored less expensively on traditional magnetic storage. To make it simpler for those organizations to do that, Alluxio this week launched version 1.0 […]

4 Ways IT Can Better Align Itself to Fulfill Business Needs Not too long ago, application integration was a process that needed to be planned out over a period of months. But with the rise of new classes of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments specifically designed for integration, many end users are now playing a much bigger […]

5 New Use Cases for the Public Cloud Peel back most attempts to embrace more modern approaches of managing IT environments, known euphemistically as DevOps, and you’ll find that at their core is usually some form of continuous integration (CI) technology. As one of the most widely used forms of continuous integration, Jenkins is being […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know With the launch today of a Docker Datacenter (DDC) suite of management tools that makes use of a previously announced Docker Universal Control Plane framework to orchestrate containers, the fight for control over the future of enterprise applications is now officially on. Instead of relying on […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading IBM today unveiled what essentially amounts to a bridge between IT environments as most organizations know them now and an event-driven IT architecture that promises to abstract away the complexity of hybrid cloud computing. At the IBM Interconnect 2016 conference, IBM announced it has formed a […]

What Does 2016 Hold for the Evolving Security Landscape? They say to be forewarned is to be forearmed, and nowhere is that more important than in IT security. Cisco this week unveiled a Cisco Firepower Next Generation Firewall that incorporates data from threat intelligence services to better secure applications before attacks are ever launched. Rather […]

4 Ways IT Can Better Align Itself to Fulfill Business Needs Mobile applications make extensive use of messaging to drive workflows across the enterprise. The next logical challenge, according to Kore CEO Raj Koneru, was to figure out how to make those messaging services available to bots in a way that is simple for end […]

The Role of IT in the Cloud Era In a sign of how rapidly hybrid cloud computing is evolving inside enterprise IT organizations, Red Hat today announced an alliance with Google under which the Red Hat Gluster Storage software will become available on the Google Cloud Platform. Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager for […]