Mike Vizard

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud Violin Memory wants to give IT organizations more control over when and how inline data deduplication and compression are applied on Flash memory arrays. This week, Violin Memory announced the Concerto 2200 series Flash Memory array that can deliver up to 672TB of usable storage when […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives Getting end users to agree to give up their physical desktops in favor of virtual ones has been something of a challenge. That’s why the ultimate goal for desktop virtualization needs to be one where the virtual user’s experience is actually better than what they currently get from […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives Just about everyone has a smartphone these days and yet, our collective ability to collaborate with one another in real time remains fairly limited. OnBeep today announced it has raised $6.25 million to solve the collaboration problem using a new class of wearable communications devices. With a nod toward […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game IT organizations generally have a lot of visibility into virtual machines these days. But when it comes to the virtual switches that those machines rely on to communicate with each other, most IT organizations are flying blind. To address that specific issue, Dell today unveiled version […]

Calculating the ROI of IT Asset Management If vendors had their way, there would be one management tool for every IT product sold. If IT organizations had their way, there would be one management tool to rule them all. Making a significant step in the latter direction, Xangati today unveiled an update to its management […]

Five Ways Cloud Changes Will Impact You With containers such as Docker on Linux platforms starting to gain some momentum as an alternative to virtual machines, managing containers and virtual machines under a common framework is likely to become more important to the enterprise IT organization. With that issue in mind, Platform9 has launched a […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game Backup and recovery has always been a complex endeavor. But in the age of the cloud, it has only become more difficult to manage because of the need to manage a local instance of an appliance that is connected to a backend cloud service. Zetta.net eliminated […]

Five Critical Tenets of Identity and Access Management Identity access management (IAM) is one of those IT capabilities that every organization should implement but very few actually do. The most the average organization ever does is set up a password system, usually based on Microsoft Active Directory. One of the primary reasons few organization ever […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud Rather than requiring IT organizations to acquire separate storage platforms for Flash, disk and backup, Nimble Storage has been promulgating the adoption of a unified storage platform that significantly drops the cost of storage. This week Nimble Storage extended that architecture with the addition of two […]

Calculating the ROI of IT Asset Management When it comes to which features get used in which version of its operating systems, Red Hat has generally shown a fair amount of flexibility. That tradition continued this week with the release of a beta of version 6.6 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system […]

Four Steps to Implement Mobile CRM the Right Way One big frustration when it comes to mobile computing is the backlog of applications waiting to be built that is starting to build across the enterprise. Organizations clearly see mobile computing as an opportunity to not only increase productivity, but also get closer to their customers. […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths While there’s certainly a lot of interest in containers within the Linux community, deploying them in a production environment is still a major challenge. As a lightweight alternative to virtual machines, containers make more efficient use of IT infrastructure that is being used to run more application workloads than […]