Mike Vizard

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Hewlett-Packard this week at the Strata + Hadoop 2015 conference extended the reach of its Big Data platform to encompass a free, open source predictive analytics toolset that is compatible with SQL. HP Haven Predictive Analytics makes predictive analytics capabilities available to organizations via a […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center Leveraging a long history of storage expertise, FalconStor Software today unveiled a software-defined storage offering that spans multiple storage platforms. FalconStor Software CEO Gary Quinn says FreeStor is not only designed to work across multiple types of Flash memory and magnetic disk storage systems, it can be deployed […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 For all the hype surrounding software-defined data centers (SDDCs) these days, actually building one is not a simple endeavor. Looking to address that issue, Springpath today emerged from stealth mode to unveil a data-centric approach to building an SDDC that is completely independent of the underlying IT […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 After viewing the mainframe world through the lens of private companies, BMC Software and Compuware announced today that they are working together to better integrate their respective offerings. Under the terms of the new alliance, the Strobe software that Compuware developed to identify bottlenecks in mainframe applications […]

Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape As part of an effort to revamp its entire approach to storage, IBM today unveiled a set of IBM Spectrum Storage offerings that extends the reach of its portfolio of software-defined storage software to third-party products for the first time. Vincent Hsu, IBM Fellow and CTO for IBM Storage Systems, says […]

Top Trends Driving the Data Center in 2015 One of the major issues that many organizations have with pushing anything relating to IT management into the cloud is the possibility that corporate data might wind up outside the four walls of the organization. To address that specific issue, Meru Networks this week unfurled Meru XPress […]

To SaaS or Not to SaaS: 2015 Enterprise App Outlook Hewlett-Packard today expanded the range of its managed cloud services with the addition of four virtual server and three physical server configurations that are being delivered as part of the HP Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Jim Fanella, vice president and general manager for […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence One of the more challenging aspects of managing IT these days is that there are so many different repositories of information. Looking to provide an overlay for users to more easily navigate all those repositories, Kaybus today upgraded a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that adds support for mobile […]

Six Trends Shaping the Data Center in 2015 Containers may be all the rage in Linux environments these days, but when it comes to Windows, most IT organizations are still waiting for Microsoft to add support for Docker containers in a future release of Windows Server 2012. Rather than wait for that event to occur, […]

Listen Up CIOs and CISOs: Are You Ready for What’s Coming? As part of an effort to broaden the reach of its security portfolio, Hewlett-Packard this week announced the acquisition of Voltage Security, a provider of encryption software for a wide variety of databases. Albert Biketi, vice president and general manager for HP Atalla security […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Teradata today as part of an effort to make it a lot simpler for organizations to derive business benefits from investments in Big Data, launched a raft of applications aimed at a broad range of vertical industries. Chris Twogood, vice president of products and services […]

A Third-Party Management Best Practices Checklist When it comes to customer support, Dell has made a lot of progress in terms of improving its reputation by instituting a ProSupport program for its servers. Starting today, Dell is now extending that same level of support to its PCs and tablets. Jim Roth, executive director of the […]