Mike Vizard

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments There’s no doubt at this point that when it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics applications and Hadoop are joined at the hip. The challenge is processing all that data in a way that creates actual intelligence the organization can act on in real time. […]

Earthquakes and the Modern Data Center SolidFire this week made it simpler to manage an all-Flash array in the data center with an update to its storage operating system that not only adds support for virtual local area networks (VLANs), but also includes a snapshot capability that eliminates the need for third-party apps to handle […]

Overcoming Five Managed File Transfer Myths As one of the first startups dedicated to managing Docker containers, ClusterHQ is trying to help IT organizations get in front of a Docker container sprawl issue before it happens. To that end, ClusterHQ this week announced support for the Fig file format that Docker created to simplify the […]

A Guide to the Different Varieties of Flash Technology As part of an ongoing effort to usurp more established vendors, Pure Storage, a provider of all-Flash arrays, has been drawing attention to how maintenance contracts unreasonably increase the total cost of storage. Today, the company announced that it is extending its Forever Flash offer to […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years Nimble Storage, a provider of hybrid arrays, this week announced that it has added Fibre Channel support to its CS-series arrays as part of an effort to replace traditional storage area networks (SANs) in those environments. Radhika Krishnan, vice president of product marketing and alliances […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users Seagate this week introduced a ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator that introduces the Hadoop on LustreConnector, which allows clusters based on Hadoop and the open source Lustre file system “to use exactly the same data without having to move the data between file systems or storage devices.” […]

How the Cloud Is Changing the Way We Work At the Cisco Collaboration Summit 2014 conference this week, Cisco announced a number of new initiatives, including a cloud-based application that combines chat, audio, video, multi-party meetings and content sharing and an alliance with Box under which content stored in the Box cloud service can be […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes IBM today took another step toward reinventing how organizations collaborate with the launch of IBM Verse, a cloud collaboration service running on the IBM SoftLayer cloud that combines email, calendaring, file sharing, instant messaging, social networking, video and analytics inside a single environment. Bob Picciano, senior vice president for the […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Hewlett-Packard today moved to couple the HP Vertical columnar databases more closely with Hadoop. With the launch of HP Vertica for SQL on Hadoop, organizations that make use of HP columnar databases can now store files using the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Steve Sarsfield, product marketing manager for HP […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years In the long history of IT, many innovations that originally began life as supercomputer projects over time wound up being more broadly applied. A new class of supercomputers that IBM is building in collaboration with NVIDIA and Mellanox for the U.S. Department of Energy is […]

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps Amazon Web Services (AWS) has built a reputation for providing inexpensive compute resources in the cloud. At the re:Invent 2014 conference this week, AWS unfurled a raft of advanced services that collectively make it simpler to build and deploy applications on AWS than just about anywhere else at […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years With organizations relying on more applications and services in the cloud than ever, sorting out who is using what can be a major challenge, especially when there is a need to rein in costs. To help provide more visibility into the usage of cloud services, […]