Mike Vizard

Beware the Data Collectors for They Are Us: Privacy and Big Data In a move that sets the stage for the next evolution of Hadoop, Hortonworks this week announced it will acquire Onyara, a major contributor to an open source Apache NiFi project dedicated to creating tools for managing complex data flows across distributed Big […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud Moving to make the cloud a seamless extension of data storage residing on premise, IBM today enhanced its IBM Spectrum Storage systems with features that integrate them better with backend services running on the IBM SoftLayer cloud. Making use of REST application programming interfaces, the update […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know As the amount of data that businesses generate continues to grow, managing the storage of that data has become an increasingly larger problem for the average internal IT organization. In fact, the time may have come to outsource the management of data storage altogether. With that […]

10 Features that Will Make You Love Windows 10 VMware may be best known these days for its server virtualization software, but the product that the company was founded on was a workstation implementation of a virtual machine. Today, VMware announced an update to VMware Workstation along with updates to its desktop virtualization software that, […]

Eight Steps to Connect Office 365/SharePoint Online with External Data Deploying Microsoft Office 356 is easy, but getting end users to actually make use of the features that come only in the cloud version of Office and not on the on-premise version is not so simple. To help IT organizations more easily retrain end users […]

7 Predictions on How NFV and SDN Will Mature Like everything else inside and outside of the data center, the wide area network (WAN) is becoming software-defined. Talari today announced that it plans to accelerate that process with the introduction of a pair of physical and virtual appliances. The Talari Appliance VT500 is a virtual […]

Moving to the Public Cloud: Six Steps for Success As IT operations teams begin to exercise more control over public cloud services, the technologies that provide a foundation for establishing a distributed control plane are starting to gain traction. With that issue in mind, Lagrange Systems announced this week that its CloudMaestro application delivery controller […]

How to Better Integrate Cloud Apps by Managing the Integration Lifecycle As applications based on Docker containers are heading into production, IT operations teams are going to discover that most of the tools they have in place don’t support Docker containers running on bare-metal servers. For that reason, Logentries this week announced that it is […]

Moving to the Public Cloud: Six Steps for Success When it comes to enterprise IT deployed on premise, VMware still rules the roost. But it’s also apparent that many of these IT organizations would like to extend the reach of VMware into clouds other than the ones directly affiliated with VMware. With that goal in […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know Depending on the use case and the personal bias of the IT organizations involved, the one thing that is for certain is that IT organizations are making greater use of solid-state drives for caching and primary storage. The challenge is deciding whether to move to an […]

Defining Deep Data: What It Is and How to Use It One trend that has been gaining traction in the enterprise is the adoption of the open source Apache Cassandra database as an alternative to traditional relational databases for higher-end transaction processing applications. Part of the so-called NoSQL movement, Cassandra differs from other open source […]

10 Features that Will Make You Love Windows 10 With both Microsoft and Apple making significant moves on the operating system front, it really was only a matter of time before Parallels updated its desktop virtualization software that enables Windows to run on Macintosh systems. Released today, Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac adds support for […]