FedEx CIO Sees Analytics Driving a World of Enterprise Change Michael Vizard, October 4, 2012 5 min read Analytics can help FedEx improve shipping quality. A pressing need to leverage massive amounts of Big Data in the...
The Great E-Commerce Analytics Arms Race Michael Vizard, September 14, 2012 7 min read Thanks to the rise of advanced analytics technologies, the buying and selling of goods and services may end up...
Real-Time Analytics on the Mainframe Could Save Billions of Dollars Michael Vizard, September 4, 2012 7 min read Mainframes could help IT departments actually streamline their infrastructure. Historically, business intelligence...
As VMworld Opens, Firms Cope with Virtualization Diversity Michael Vizard, August 27, 2012 7 min read VMworld is in session this week. As VMware kicks off its VMworld conference in San Francisco, the company can take...
Coping with the Growing Complexity of the Data Center Michael Vizard, August 16, 2012 8 min read When it comes to IT management, every task is often treated as a singular event. That not only forces IT...
NoSQL Databases Drive Acceptance of Database-as-a-Service Michael Vizard, August 3, 2012 5 min read Relational databases tend not to scale very well, either inside or outside the cloud. Developers can’t be sure...
The Rise of the Programmable Data Center Michael Vizard, August 3, 2012 8 min read Almost every process associated with the data center these days is either a manual one, or else reliant on some...
SDNs Promise to Simplify Network Management in the Data Center Michael Vizard, August 1, 2012 6 min read Networking in the data center can be complicated to manage. It’s not only expensive, but any configuration error can...
The Rise of In-Memory Databases Michael Vizard, July 13, 2012 5 min read For more years than anyone can remember, the relationship between databases and disk drives has been one of mutual...
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Management Challenge Michael Vizard, July 12, 2012 5 min read Back in the day, data only came on paper, and companies could place that paper in convenient files. Those days are...
