Mike Vizard

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps Something approaching an ecosystem is starting to emerge around the OpenPOWER server architecture. At the OpenPOWER Summit 2015 conference this week, IBM was joined by Rackspace, NVIDIA, Tyan and Mellanox in showing off prototypes of servers based on the POWER8 processor. Ken King, general manager for OpenPOWER alliances […]

Five Predictions for Hybrid Cloud Environments in 2015 While there is no shortage of online marketplaces these days, trying to navigate individual network and cloud connection contracts in the age of the cloud can be a major chore. To simplify that issue, Global Capacity created One Marketplace, which this week added the Google Cloud service […]

Basketball Tournament Leads to Network Madness As much as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have been a boon in terms of making software more accessible, they do introduce a lot of issues in the way of physics that IT organizations need to figure out. After all, not every connection to the Internet is equally robust. To help […]

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud Following just about every other productivity application into the cloud, Adobe Systems today unfurled the Adobe Document Cloud, which includes support for electronic signatures. Mark Grilli, vice president of product marketing for Adobe Systems, says that as workflow processes increasingly become digitized, it’s become […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Looking to make desktop virtualization a feasible alternative for high-end graphics applications, Dell today unveiled the Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse. Dan O’Farrell, senior director of product marketing for client cloud computing at Dell, says that as graphics applications begin to play a bigger role outside of […]

2015: A Big Year for Cloud Computing Once upon a time, it took several years before enterprise-class technologies found their way into small-to-medium business (SMB) environments. Now it’s just a matter of months. At the Hewlett-Packard Global Partner 2015 Conference today, HP announced a read-caching addition to the HP MSA storage lineup based on solid-state […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Despite the billions of dollars invested over the years in data storage, the systems that manage it are relatively dumb. Qumulo wants to change that starting today with the delivery of Qumulo Core, a file system for network-attached storage (NAS) systems that takes advantage of real-time analytics to […]

How to Launch a Successful API Normally a company changing its name would not elicit much interest beyond all that marketing collateral that usually goes along with such events. But the fact that SOA Software this week changed its name to Akana speaks to a fundamental change in the way integration is being approach inside […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Accessing analytics of any type has always been a complex endeavor. But starting this week, Ryft Systems wants to make real-time analytics running on a 1u server built using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) a single application programming interface (API) call away. Pat McGarry, vice president of […]

Five Predictions for Hybrid Cloud Environments in 2015 Moving to take the concept of converged infrastructure beyond a single box, the VCE arm of EMC today unveiled its VCE Foundation for Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, designed to make it possible to scale out systems based on Cisco servers and EMC storage. VCE CTO Trey Layton […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 The mass adoption of desktop virtualization has proven elusive for several reasons ranging from the total cost of deployment to perceived compromises in functionality. With the launch today of VMware Horizon 6, VMware is taking another stab at resolving those issues with an update that adds support […]

The Top Challenges for Network Engineers in 2015 At the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. 2015 summit this week, Dell unveiled a Switch Abstraction Interface that is intended to make it simpler to invoke Ethernet switches. Subi Krishnamurthy, CTO of Dell Networking, says Dell is proposing that the time has come for the industry as […]