Mike Vizard

10 Surprising Ways Automation Can Simplify IT Looking to bring agile development methodologies to the staid world of the mainframe, Compuware this week announced that it has acquired ISPW, a provider of source code management software built on agile development methodology, while at the same time moving to form alliances with AppDynamics, Atlassian, Jenkins, SonarSource […]

The Internet of Things: Just a Fad or Worth the Buzz? Most organizations already have workflow processes in place that they are not going to replace simply because new services are available in the cloud. But they will be open to extending those existing processes, enabling them to better leverage cloud services. With that goal […]

Five Tips for Motivating Virtual Teams While Lenovo is best known for its hardware, the manufacturer of PCs, tablets and smartphones over the last year has been building out a software portfolio. At the 2016 edition of the CES event this week, Lenovo unfurled its first software-as-a-service (SaaS) application in the form of an AirClass […]

How to Mitigate the Risk of Data Loss and Disruption in 2016 At a time when both the type and volume of IT security attacks continue to increase, carriers, in general, are under more pressure than ever to be able to deliver “clean pipes” to customers. With that goal in mind, BT announced today a […]

CES Announces the Most Innovative Tech Products for 2016 Like most PC manufacturers, HP Inc. today took advantage of the 2016 edition of the CES show to showcase a bevy of new additions to its notebook lineup, which includes the HP EliteBook Folio– the thinnest and lightest notebook HP has ever created at only 12.4 […]

CES Announces the Most Innovative Tech Products for 2016 At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show this week, Lenovo expanded its family of tablets and notebooks to include a convertible ThinkPad X1 Yoga PC that makes use of a 14-in OLED display from Samsung to provide deeper color contrasts on screen in a form factor that […]

How to Mitigate the Risk of Data Loss and Disruption in 2016 Following a spate of high-profile distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks such as the one that took down Web sites operated by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), awareness of DDoS attacks as a favorite tool of entities trying to make a political statement […]

Present and Future Applications of the Internet of Things As part of an ambitious effort to create a series of applications that enable people to have more control over how and when health care services will be provided, CrossChx this week launched a Queue application running on an Apple iPad through which patients can check […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization With an eye toward making it simpler to manage thousands of Docker containers running in a production environment, Docker, Inc., this week announced a technology partnership program aimed specifically at providers of log management software and services. David Messina, senior vice president of marketing, says the Docker Ecosystem […]

Six Warning Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Software Given the fact that most IT organizations are now storing orders of magnitude more data than they ever did in the past, it should not come as a surprise that usage of data deduplication tools is on the rise. The challenge is that different types of data respond […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions As the number of containers within the enterprise grows, IT organizations will inevitably look for simpler ways to configure them. With that goal in mind, Puppet Labs this week announced that its IT automation software is now integrated with the open source Kubernetes framework for orchestrating containers. […]

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs While Docker containers are all the rage, stitching them together to deploy them in a production environment remains a challenge. To help address that issue, Docker created a network application programming interface (API) to connect various Docker containers together. Today, Weaveworks, via the release of Weave […]