Mike Vizard

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work The popular perception is that bots are tools that hackers employ to perpetrate all manners of IT evil. In reality, bots are often used by organizations and their partners to easily share access to data such as pricing on a Web site. To give IT organizations more […]

Reduce Data Breach Damage by Improving Detection and Response Most of what security analysts do comes down to correlating various events to determine how a particular attack is being perpetrated against an IT environment. Making use of years of experience, those security experts can usually identify the vulnerability being exploited, which is critical to putting […]

Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2016 Everyone is familiar with digital currencies in the form of Bitcoin. The foundational blockchain cryptology technology that enables that currency to be securely shared may wind up having the biggest impact on the economy. IBM this week announced plans for a blockchain-as-a-service offering that resides on the […]

6 Ways Small Businesses Can Master the Cloud in 2016 While hyperconvergence inside the data center is all the rage these days, Nutanix wants to remind IT organizations that it is really only a means to achieving a true private cloud. With that goal in mind, Nutanix has unveiled an update to its namesake hyperconvergence […]

Evolving Enterprise Tech: What Does 2016 Hold? Moving beyond the high end of the data center, VCE, a unit of EMC, today unveiled a family of appliances specifically optimized for VMware environments. Priced starting at under $60,000, each VxRail appliance can be configured with up to 112 Intel Xeon-class processors which, when integrated with storage, […]

6 Cyber Secrets Setting You Up for Betrayal One of the primary reasons so many relatively simple attacks wind up compromising IT security defenses is that the internal IT organization suffers from IT security fatigue. In any given day, any number of IT security technologies will generate a stream of alerts, most of which wind […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization While it’s taken some time, network virtualization is now quickly becoming fairly common. The challenge now is finding a way to apply network virtualization to support heterogeneous IT environments. To meet that challenge, Midokura created Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM), an instance of a virtual network that can be […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence Thanks to the commercialization of platforms such as IBM Watson, interest in all things relating to cognitive computing is running high. But actually building these applications is a major challenge because identifying the relationships between various facts and events requires building a library of terms and definitions that applications […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management The amount and types of data that small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) need to contend with continues to grow. So do the challenges associated with managing it all while maintaining application performance.  To help organizations with limited budgets wrangle content and speed up their applications, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added […]

2016 Trends: Preparing the Network for Web-Scale Demands As Node.js continues to gain momentum as the dominant variant of JavaScript being used inside the enterprise, the Node.js Foundation today announced it plans to primarily use software owned by IBM to create a Node.js web server framework project. Express – based on the framework that IBM […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work As video comes to represent a much larger percentage of the traffic flowing across the Internet, it’s clear that end users now expect to be able to communicate using video. The challenge facing IT organizations is figuring out how to incorporate high-definition video inside traditional enterprise workflows. […]

2016 Data Storage Trends: DevOps, Flash and Hybrid Cloud Thanks to the rise of Flash memory as a vehicle for providing primary storage on servers, hyperconvergence is now all the rage inside the data center. Today VMware moved to accelerate that trend with a new release of VMware Virtual SAN software that drives the cost […]