Mike Vizard

The Real Costs Associated with Email-Based Support One of IT’s biggest headaches is the abundance of email with files attached. Not only do these files wind up consuming massive amounts of storage; they adversely impact everything from network bandwidth utilization to IT security. As a provider of file synchronization and share software deployed on premise, […]

The Role of IT in the Cloud Era For some time now, Red Hat has been making the case that the pace of IT innovation requires an open approach to IT management. Given the rapid rate at which emerging technologies are being adopted across the enterprise, Red Hat contends that IT organizations more than ever […]

Security 2016: What to Expect in the New Year While the credit card industry has made some significant advances in terms of reducing fraud using smart cards that rely on embedded chips, there are still billions of dollars in transactions that occur without the physical credit card actually being present. In fact, as credit card […]

Study Finds More Companies Have Data Breach Response Plan, But Still Lack Crucial Steps Recognizing that IT security by definition is a team sport, IBM today announced it is adding a set of open application programming interfaces (APIs) to the IBM Security QRadar platformthrough which third-party organizations can build applications that can be accessed via […]

7 Characteristics of a Data-Driven Organization Since being launched last June, the Open Container Initiative (OCI) has been viewed as the best hope for avoiding the fragmentation of container technologies that many organizations have come to view as the most significant technical advance this decade. Looking to continue building on the initial wave of support […]

7 Characteristics of a Data-Driven Organization All the data in the world isn’t going to be of much use if it’s not accessible or simple to manage. To address both those issues, SAP today released a support package stack (SPS) 11 update to the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform. The update adds support for Java […]

Six Warning Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Software As IT organizations move to embrace containers, many are revisiting the entire stack on which their IT services are delivered. After all, relying on legacy IT infrastructure to deliver modern applications seems counterintuitive. In place of that legacy infrastructure, IT organizations are looking at embracing everything from lighter-weight […]

Creating an App-Centric Network for the Internet of Things Recognizing that applications that leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) might be challenging for most organizations to build, SAP is developing an IoT application services layer that promises to abstract away much of the underlying complexity associated with building these applications. Speaking at an SAP Executive […]

7 Characteristics of a Data-Driven Organization For some time now, Cisco has been making the case for an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) approach to software-defined networking (SDN) that can support multiple classes of application workloads. Cisco today extended that effort with an update to ACI that not only adds support for Docker containers, but enables […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence There’s no doubt at this point that open application programming interfaces (APIs) are rapidly transforming the end-user experience inside and out of the cloud. The traditional walls that have existed between applications are becoming more porous, making it simpler to share data between applications. Arguably, it will be the […]

10 Security Trends to Look for in 2016 Moving to address security concerns that have dogged the usage of containers in production environments, CoreOS today unveiled a Distributed Trusted Computing framework giving enterprises cryptographically guaranteed end-to-end integrity and control of their environment. Announced at a Tectonic Summit 2015 conference, the framework is designed to support […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center One of the bigger challenges IT organizations face as they begin to embrace microservices architectures to build and deploy applications is simply keeping track of what is happening when. Without any insight into what is happening across all the endpoints that are invoking any number of IT resources, […]