Mike Vizard

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs At the Discover 2015 event in London, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise unveiled a new generation of “composable” systems that enable IT organizations to dynamically provision server, storage and networking resources within the system using a common application programming interface (API). Gary Thome, vice president and chief engineer of […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Expanding its campaign to eliminate the need for solid-state disks (SSDs) in primary storage environments, Violin Memory today unveiled extensions to its all-Flash storage platform. Sudhir Prasad, senior director of product management for Violin Memory, says the latest additions to the company’s Flash Storage Platform (FSP) 7000 series […]

9 Ways Online Retailers Can Protect Customer Data Privacy During the Holidays For several years now IBM has been trying to convince organizations to give up collecting personally identifiable data in favor of authentication software known as Identity Mixer that can be used to verify whether, for example, a particular end user is over 18 […]

Five Common Customer Service Pain Points to Avoid When it comes to managing IT, all too often the IT department winds up playing a blame game where the objective is to determine the innocence of a particular group within the IT department versus actually solving the problem. This isn’t necessarily because IT people care more […]

Six Warning Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Software Conceptually, at least, building out a distributed computing environment to support a real-time application environment such as one that would be required to support an Internet of Things (IoT) application is a straightforward endeavor. In practice, the level of complexity associated with building and managing that environment takes […]

How to Launch a Successful API Now that organizations have come to realize that any successful implementation of a digital business strategy is almost wholly dependent on application programming interfaces (API), having a real understanding of how those APIs are being consumed is a top priority. To provide organizations with more visibility into how their […]

The 5 Biggest Impacts of the Low-Code App Revolution In a move intended to make it simpler for organizations of all sizes to generate machine learning algorithms, IBM today announced that its general-purpose machine learning compiler and optimization platform has been accepted as an Apache open source project. Rob Thomas, vice president of product development […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 While most organizations are not waiting for formal ratification of Internet of Things (IoT) standards before moving ahead with projects, the work being done by various IoT standards bodies today is likely to have a profound effect when the time comes to connect various IoT platforms together. With […]

Unikernels: The Next Generation of Cloud Technology While a lot of interest has developed in the OpenStack framework for managing IT infrastructure, much work still needs to be done on making OpenStack simpler to deploy. To address that issue, Mirantis has donated its Fuel configuration and deployment tool, which it created for OpenStack, to the […]

Unikernels: The Next Generation of Cloud Technology If EMC has its way, the line between primary storage on premise and secondary and tertiary storage in the cloud is going to get a whole lot blurrier. This week, EMC unveiled a raft of updates to its storage portfolio that essentially turn EMC VMAX and VNX storage […]

Beware the Data Collectors for They Are Us: Privacy and Big Data One of the most often underestimated aspects of embracing Big Data is the impact that shifting to a platform such as Hadoop can have on existing queries. The simple fact is that most of the queries organizations run today have been extended multiple […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network As part of an effort to push the cost per gigabyte of Flash storage down to $1.50, Pure Storage this week announced it is adding support for 3D TLC NAND flash technology in its storage arrays. Pure Storage is also making available capacity-planning software free […]