Mike Vizard

Developing Tech: What’s Next? For over a decade now, IBM has been promoting the adoption of Linux on mainframes. Most recently, it extended that effort by developing versions of mainframes that come loaded only with Linux. Now IBM is looking to expand the developer ecosystem surrounding those mainframe platforms. In addition to updating the systems […]

Innovative Advice for Execs Looking to Change Their Industry Given all the interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), many IT organizations suddenly find themselves under pressure to turn all the promised benefits of the IoT into reality overnight. To help IoT organizations accomplish that goal faster, myDevices this week unveiled a Cayenne visual programming […]

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch When it comes to transaction processing, relational databases still rule the enterprise roost. But it’s also clear that a number of NoSQL databases are starting to lay claim to these operations. One of those challengers is Aerospike, which today updated its namesake database to add support […]

Evolving Enterprise Tech: What Does 2016 Hold? At this juncture, it’s clear that in the name of performance and agility, more networking services are going to be running on x86 servers rather than dedicated networking gear. The challenge right now is that network services tend to consume so many resources on those servers that little […]

The Best Security Advice from Leading Experts One of the fundamental problems with IT security is that the IT environment is becoming more complex, while both the volume and types of attacks that IT organizations need to defend against continue to grow. All that complexity increases the overall attack surface to be defended, which by […]

2016 Data Storage Trends: DevOps, Flash and Hybrid Cloud While the high drama surrounding the proposed acquisition of EMC by Dell continues, EMC’s technology advances continue. Today EMC rolled out an update to its Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) platform that is at the core of the company’s software-defined storage (SDS) architecture. Manuvir Das, senior vice […]

2016 Software Trends: The Evolution of Enterprise Software In terms of major innovations that will transform enterprise IT in the months and years ahead, nothing is quite as profound as the recent advances in memory. First with the rise of Flash and DDR4 and now the arrival of non-volatile memory technologies such as 3D XPoint […]

How to Assess Your Critical Cloud Service Providers With more IT organizations looking to build and deploy applications in the cloud, interest in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments that provide both the software and hardware needed to run these applications is on the rise. The challenge for many IT organizations is that they operate in environments where […]

4 Enterprise Technology Trends to Be Mindful of in 2016 Most IT organizations spend a lot more time trying to figure out the cause of a problem than they do actually fixing it. That’s because the inherent complexity of IT makes it difficult to identify patterns and trends. Now LANDESK is moving to not only […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management The amount of data that most organizations generate is increasing at a significant rate with each passing day. The biggest challenge IT organizations might actually face may not be storing all that data as much as it is making sure application performance doesn’t degrade due to I/O bottlenecks. […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity One of the bigger tactical challenges most IT organizations have to regularly contend with is trying to keep track of what elements of an IT environment actually power any given service. To make that simpler, Paessler AG has added a Business Process Sensor capability to its PRTG Network Monitor. […]

How to Fine-Tune Your SMB and Overcome Challenges As a provider of business applications and databases that are widely used to host any number of customer applications, Intuit is a company that most organizations are familiar with. Most recently, Intuit has been moving to empower citizen developers via a no-code Sync effort that provides integration […]