Mike Vizard

Evolving Enterprise Tech: What Does 2016 Hold? Rather than rely on virtual switches and network overlays to connect containers across networks, Metaswitch, a provider of networking software, has been making the case for a Project Calico effort that relies on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to network containers such as Docker. Today the team that […]

2016 Software Trends: The Evolution of Enterprise Software In a move that signals a significant expansion of its core mission, Docker today announced it has acquired Unikernel Systems, a provider of tools that compile source code into a lightweight custom unikernel operating system that consists only of the components needed to run a specific piece […]

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch Google, in conjunction with Cloudera, Data Artisan, Cask and Talend, announced this week that the Dataflow programming model that Google created to develop streaming Big Data applications is now an open source Apache project. Talend CTO Laurent Bride says this move is significant because it should […]

Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2016 While public policy surrounding encryption is still a topic of hot debate, the fact that more organizations want to be able to easily invoke it is not. To make that possible across data in motion on a wide area network, Ciena today added a WaveLogic Encryption capability […]

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch Even with the advent of visualization tools, it’s still sometimes hard to decipher exactly what’s going on within a report involving complex relationships between large sets of numbers. Narrative Science developed Quill natural language software that automatically generates a narrative to guide end users through that […]

Evolving Enterprise Tech: What Does 2016 Hold? One of the new realities of IT is that advances in processor architectures are now coming fast and furious. As a result, IT organizations need to find a way to take advantage of those advances in a way that isolates them from all the potential disruption. To provide […]

Top Resolutions for IT Teams in 2016 With the rise of mobile and cloud computing, keeping track of who is using which files, when and where, has become a compliance nightmare for most IT organizations. These days, most IT organizations still don’t really know who shared what data with whom and under what conditions. To […]

CES Announces the Most Innovative Tech Products for 2016 For some time, HP Inc. has been making the case for employing virtual reality technologies to change the way people play with, and also build and develop, products. With that goal firmly in mind, HP Inc. today unveiled Sprout Pro by HP, an offering that bundles […]

What Does 2016 Hold for the Evolving Security Landscape? Besides paving the way for accelerated adoption of more modern operating systems such as Windows 10, Intel envisions that the 6th Gen Intel Core vPro processors for client devices announced today will significantly affect everything from manageability and authentication to the quality of the wireless device and […]

Security Artifacts – The Hunt for Forensic Residue As part of an effort to combat billions of dollars in fraudulent transactions, IBM today announced it has acquired IRIS Analytics, a provider of fraud detection software that makes use of machine-learning algorithms to make it possible to detect fraud in milliseconds. Bob Griffin, general manager for […]

Top Resolutions for IT Teams in 2016 In a lot of organizations, most of the work done by employees versus machines revolves around an enterprise content management (ECM) system that becomes the central hub for a wide variety of workflow processes. With that IT reality in mind, Laserfiche this week released an update to its […]

Top Resolutions for IT Teams in 2016 While there’s no doubt that interest in the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) is running high both inside and out of IT departments, the practicality of implementing IoT applications can be daunting for most organizations. To help address that issue, ServiceMax today launched Connected Field Service, […]