Mike Vizard

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps Now that it’s become fairly routine for IT organizations to manage smartphones and tablets via the cloud, starting this week Hewlett-Packard is looking to apply that concept more broadly via the new HP Touchpoint Manager service that can manage workstations, tablets, PCs and smartphones running Android, iOS or […]

Key Security Considerations for Enterprise Cloud Deployments At the AWS re:Invent 2014 conference today, Accenture announced that it is extending its cloud computing alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include an Accenture Enterprise Application Migration Service for the AWS Cloud. The company will be providing tighter integration between the self-service cloud management framework that […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity Addressing a core issue that many cite as a primary reason why there is so much usage of rogue cloud services inside the enterprise, OpenText today announced a software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment dubbed OpenText Core, through which IT organizations can centralize the management of information across the extended enterprise. Muhi […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years While Docker containers clearly have the potential to transform the way organizations think about virtualization, IT organizations still require an operating system framework through which they can deploy and manage those containers. Today, Red Hat is making available a public beta of one option for […]

The Best Social Media Management Software At the SAP TechEd && d-code conference today, SAP announced an alliance with Facebook under which it will feed membership data from the popular social network into an SAP analytics application running on top of the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform. Kevin Ichhpurani, senior vice president and head of […]

The Value of Information Governance: Finding the ROI After being spun off from CA Technologies earlier this year, Arcserve is now detailing the scope of its data protection ambitions for 2015. In addition to creating its first purpose-built appliance for running its data protection software, Arceserve is making available a free Arcserve Unified Data Protection […]

Five Steps to Prepare for the Global Intercloud Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments have essentially emerged as a superset of functionality traditionally associated with application servers. Today, Red Hat moved to better integrate those two environments in a way that further blurs the line between them. With the launch of private integrated platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) in the cloud, […]

Six Ways Flash Is Changing the Storage Landscape Many IT organizations are running thousands of virtual machines that legacy storage systems were never designed to efficiently support. To address that issue, Tintri developed a file system that was specifically optimized for virtual machine environments. This week, Tintri pushed the virtual machine density envelope even higher […]

Six Ways Flash Is Changing the Storage Landscape There’s a lot of agreement that memory is going to play a much bigger role in driving the performance of enterprise applications going forward, but little to no agreement over what form that will take. While major vendors have been making the case for forklift upgrades to […]

Five Cloud Storage Tips and Tricks for CIOs Many internal IT organizations that are building private clouds today are trying to borrow structural IT concepts pioneered by public cloud service providers. As a provider of one of those services, Joyent today announced it will make it easier for internal IT organizations to do just that […]

Holographs, Liquid-State and DNA: The Future of Data Storage Seagate this week unveiled a hard disk drive that comes with object-based software that promises to reduce much of the complexity and overhead associated with managing data storage at scale. Ali Fenn, senior director of product line management for Seagate, says Seagate Kinetic HDDs eliminate the […]

How the Data Center Will Grow Up in Three Years Dell today unveiled an innovative new server architecture that maximizes density in the data center while still preserving an IT organization’s ability to scale out compute resources as needed. Announced at the Dell World 2014 conference, the Dell PowerEdge FX chassis offers a 2u enclosure […]