Mike Vizard

How to Manage Multiple Cloud Relationships In theory at least, a standard platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment should greatly advance hybrid cloud computing by providing a common layer of software that abstracts away the underlying infrastructure complexity. To make sure that actually happens, the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) announced today that it has created a certification through […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence Since last summer, Couchbase has been working to marry a derivative of SQL to a document database based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). This week, Couchbase released a 4.1 update to Couchbase Server that adds support for Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) operations within the N1QL implementation of SQL […]

How to Manage Multiple Cloud Relationships With interest in all things related to microservices and containers on the rise, most IT organizations are actively investing in technologies that promise to transform enterprise IT. The challenge is that not many enterprise IT organizations are going to make that shift quickly. With that in mind, Red Hat […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 In terms of IT environments, the open source OpenStack management framework is arguably as complex as it comes right now. For that reason, many of the IT organizations looking to deploy OpenStack need a little outside help. Looking to provide that assistance, Datadog, a provider of IT monitoring […]

How Windows 10 Will Benefit the Mobile Enterprise By now most IT organizations have come to appreciate just how difficult mobile applications can be to manage. In addition to what occurs on the platform the mobile application is running on, its performance is dependent on everything from the quality of the application programming interfaces (APIs) […]

How to Promote a Strong Cybersecurity Culture Year-Round Now that the open source OpenStack management framework is increasingly being deployed in production environments, more attention is starting to be paid to actually securing it. Boris Renski, chief marketing officer for Mirantis, says that as part of an ongoing effort to address “Day Two” issues associated […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network Most IT organizations have historically tended to manage Windows Server and Linux environments in isolation from one another, even though they run on the same classes of x86 server infrastructure. But as IT organizations continue to find themselves short-staffed, interest in unifying the management of […]

Eight Ways to Put Hadoop to Work in Any IT Department Replicating data across a wide area network (WAN) is generally considered too expensive and time consuming to be taken lightly by most IT organizations. The rise of Big Data naturally exacerbates that challenge. For that reason, WANdisco created replication software for Hadoop environments that […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence As organizations of all sizes rely more on IT to drive any number of critical business processes, visibility into not only their applications but also the business processes that rely on them has become crucial. To provide that visibility, AppDynamics is looking to turn the data it collects (via […]

5 Hidden Costs of Cloud Backup Conventional wisdom currently holds that application development has moved into the realm of the public cloud where IT resources are both inexpensive and readily accessible. In reality, a lot of the development work being done in the enterprise is on a private cloud, largely because many of those applications […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape With the present course the IT industry is on, just about every vendor that makes any kind of infrastructure is developing a framework to automate the management of it. Naturally, that could lead to even more fragmentation in terms of how IT infrastructure gets managed across the enterprise. […]

Figuring out exactly what any application needed in terms of storage capacity over the long haul was historically more art than science. The trouble was that given the high margin for error, a lot of organizations routinely overprovisioned the amount of storage they required. After all, it’s generally less of a sin to spend too […]