Mike Vizard

Don’t Let the IT Security Paradigm Shift Leave You Stranded As a provider of appliances that govern network traffic in real time, Gigamon has steadily built a base of customers that need maximum visibility into their network traffic. Today, Gigamon is looking to extend that visibility to security applications in a way that is being […]

If Dinosaurs Had Big Data, Would They Be Extinct? A treasure trove of valuable customer data flows through any number of social networks every minute of every day. Making sense of that data, however, is a whole other matter. To address that issue, DataSift is applying machine learning software to social media data to help […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management Pushing the cost of an all-Flash array down to $1.66 per gigabyte and as low as 58 cents per gigabyte in a hybrid array, Dell today unveiled a Dell Storage SC Series that makes use of triple level cell (TLC) 3D NAND Flash memory. Travis Vigil, executive director […]

To SaaS or Not to SaaS: 2015 Enterprise App Outlook Looking to address a long-standing business intelligence issue that has plagued IT organizations for as long as anyone cares to remember, Microstrategy this week announced the general availability of its BI software on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Previously, Microstrategy provided its applications as […]

Six Ways Flash Is Changing the Storage Landscape Given the cost of deploying Flash storage in an array, optimizing which specific applications get the most bang for the Flash storage dollar is becoming a much higher priority. To address that issue, Coho Data today added support for DataStream FlashFit technology to its storage arrays for […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence Thanks to issues surrounding how to make the open source MySQL databases scale and concerns about Oracle’s ongoing stewardship of the project, interest in an open source MariaDB, which is compatible with MySQL applications, is on the rise. MariaDB Corporation this week rolled out a summer release […]

Ten Interesting Facts About Tape Backup One of the primary reasons that managing storage is difficult is that application workloads have different levels of performance requirements that require specific levels of I/O throughput to maintain. To make it simpler to manage that process, Nimble Storage today announced that it has extended the capabilities of its […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Looking to bridge the divide between endpoints and in-memory computing services, SAP today released an update to the SQL Anywhere database that provides tighter data synchronization integration with the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform as well as other databases. Amit Satoor, senior director of product marketing for […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization In a move that bodes well for the future of Windows 10 endpoint security, Microsoft and Bromium this week signaled that the next major version of Windows will include support for micro-virtualization. The news was announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner 2015 conference. Bromium CTO Simon Crosby says […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management Given the complexity of managing IT environments these days, it’s now only a matter of time before machine learning is routinely applied to manage IT operations. One of the first companies to provide such a capability is SIOS Technology, which today announced the general availability of SIOS iQ […]

Study Examines Government Cloud Adoption and Shadow IT Docker containers may be all the rage these days with developers, but for IT operations teams, they can be something of a potential nightmare. Where 10 to 25 virtual machines once ran on a physical server, there could be over a hundred Docker containers. That level of […]

Don’t Let the IT Security Paradigm Shift Leave You Stranded The IT environment inside most major organizations has reached a level of complexity that makes it almost impossible for the average team of IT professionals to secure. Splunk, via its acquisition of Caspida for $190 million, now plans to add artificial intelligence to help IT […]