Mike Vizard

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives Hewlett-Packard today moved to make new classes of micro servers based on ARM processors generally available as part of its Project Moonshot initiative. Susan Blocher, vice president of product management, marketing and business development for HP Moonshot, says two new HP micro servers, including for the first time […]

Enterprise IT organizations have made massive investments in development tools, and yet the perception is that many of these tools were not really designed to support new agile development methodologies and continuous integration requirements. Looking to fill that gap, IncrediBuild has developed a set of tools that makes it much faster to compile files when […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud With networking becoming more programmable, HP is trying to build a software ecosystem around its software-defined networking (SDN) environment that will eventually include a raft of third-party applications. To that end, the company announced today that the HP SDN App Store is now open for business. […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives Historically, transaction processing and analytics were distinct types of application workloads that had very little in common. Transaction processing applications tended to run on mainframes and Unix servers, while data warehouses were made up of racks of x86 servers. But as enterprise applications continue to evolve, Michael Gschwind, […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy BMC Software has extended its efforts to help IT organizations keep their mainframe software licensing fees under control to now include DB2, IMS and IBM CICS transaction processing software. The BMC Subsystem Optimizer Software for zEnterprise mainframes allows IT organizations to run DB2, IMS and CICS on separate […]

Four Steps to Implement Mobile CRM the Right Way One of the biggest challenges with any customer relationship application (CRM) is actually getting salespeople to use it. While the folks who need to manage the sales process really like the visibility into the sales pipeline that CRM provides, most salespeople don’t get much out of […]

Holographs, Liquid-State and DNA: The Future of Data Storage Beyond simplifying the billing process under a single vendor, the fact that Hewlett-Packard sold both servers and storage, from a technical perspective, didn’t mean all that much. Starting today, HP is out to change that with a version of the HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) […]

Holographs, Liquid-State and DNA: The Future of Data Storage NetApp has been offering object-based storage management software for years. Starting today, however, that software is being offered in a version that can not only support 100 billion objects, but also Amazon S3 application programming interfaces (APIs) and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI). Ingo Fuchs, senior […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Fueled mainly by demand for Big Data applications, a number of NoSQL databases have emerged as viable alternatives to traditional relational databases. Rather than deal with trying to manage multiple relational database instances, many organizations are opting to run Big Data applications on NoSQL databases […]

Key Security Considerations for Enterprise Cloud Deployments Whether IT organizations like it or not, Dropbox has emerged as not just a mechanism for sharing files but, increasingly, a platform for developing cloud applications. As part of a continuing effort to extend the appeal of Dropbox as a platform for cloud applications, Dropbox is making available […]

How the Cloud Is Changing the Way We Work Cloud computing represents something of a fundamental shift in how IT is deployed and managed. Given that, it only stands to reason that new approaches to securing IT in the age of the cloud are also going to be required. That’s the thinking that went into […]

Best Practices for Teleconferencing with Employees Working Remotely With videoconferencing becoming an increasingly popular tool for communicating inside and out of the enterprise, the strain these applications put on corporate networks can be problematic for other applications. Looking to give IT organizations more visibility into what is actually occurring inside those videoconferencing sessions, Blue Jeans […]