Mike Vizard

The Top Challenges for Network Engineers in 2015 At the Mobile World Congress 2015 conference today, Oracle unveiled new Ethernet switches while simultaneously extending its software-defined network (SDN) capabilities. SK Vinod, senior director of product management, Netra Systems and networking at Oracle, says that while still relying primarily on InfiniBand as the base networking infrastructure to […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments The trouble with deriving value from data as it traverses the network in real time is often simply getting at it. The number of analytics tools that process this data at scale is fairly limited. To address that issue, Corvil this week announced an upgrade to its […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 Docker addressed the need to orchestrate containers in enterprise IT organizations by making available three tools for download today. Promised last year, Scott Johnston, senior vice president of product for Docker, says Machine Beta, Swarm Beta and Compose 1.1 make it easier to provision infrastructure, create clusters […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Oracle today released an upgrade to its MySQL database that combines the best attributes of SQL and NoSQL databases. Version 7.4 of MySQL Cluster is based on an open source NoSQL database engine that supports SQL queries within an ACID-compliant transactional database running in-memory. The new version […]

Five Enterprise File and Storage Predictions for 2015 One of the major reasons for the surge in shadow IT services in recent years is that many internal IT organizations couldn’t really provide a file sharing and synchronization capability for users of mobile computing devices, which those users naturally went out and found on their own […]

Six Ways Flash Is Changing the Storage Landscape With Flash storage increasingly being installed directly on servers, IT organizations are looking for ways to maximize those investments across as many applications as possible without having to necessarily acquire an all-Flash storage array. To address that issue, PernixData came up with storage management software for server-side […]

Embracing the Software-Defined Future: Looking Ahead at 2015 The latest networking vendor to make the move to software-defined networking (SDN) is Avaya, which today unveiled the Avaya SDN Fx architecture. Jean Turgeon, vice president and chief technologist for software-defined architecture at Avaya, says that Avaya SDN Fx architecture creates an open framework for managing networking […]

Seven Must-Have Features for Great Mobile Apps At the IBM InterConnect 2015 conference today, IBM rolled out an upgrade to its MobileFirst mobile application development platform (MADP) that adds additional security tools and the ability to synchronize data using technology that IBM gained when it acquired Cloudant last year. Phil Buckellew, vice president of enterprise […]

The Top Challenges for Network Engineers in 2015 While VMware is clearly the dominant virtual machine in use inside the enterprise today, there are those who are betting that open source virtual machines will gain ground as IT organizations move to embrace converged infrastructure. Scale Computing today announced a new version of HC3 HyperCore converged […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments As the number of platforms where enterprise IT organizations can store data proliferates, getting data in and out of those platforms quickly has become a major IT challenge. To address that issue, Syncsort has released an update to its suite of data integration offerings that adds an […]

Five Cyber Attacks that Made CISOs Rethink Security Check Point Software Technologies this week moved to shore up its ability to combat advanced forms of malware via the acquisition of Hyperwise, a startup vendor that has developed a method for identifying threats at the processor level. Alon Kantor, vice president of business development for Check […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape Leveraging its partnership with Micron Technology to bring multi-level cell (MLC) Flash technology into the enterprise, IBM this week unveiled two all-Flash arrays that are not only 50 times faster than traditional magnetic storage but also have nine times the amount of endurance of existing Flash memory technologies. […]