Mike Vizard

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives While the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is a popular idea with some end users, from an IT perspective it can be exceedingly difficult to manage. With the release today of Casper Suite 9.4, JAMF Software is trying to make it easier for employees who have brought Apple […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Splunk today extended the reach of its machine data analytics platform into the realm of networking. With the general availability of Splunk App for Stream, Leena Joshi, senior director of solutions marketing for Splunk, says the company’s search and indexing engine can now capture real-time […]

Harnessing the Power of Big Data with Geospatial Mapping After recognizing the inevitability that Big Data open repositories will become the standard mechanisms for storing IT management data, ExtraHop Networks today announced Open Data Stream offerings for both MongoDB and Elasticsearch. Erik Giesa, senior vice president of marketing and business development for ExtraHop, says that […]

Five Ways to Scale Agile for the Enterprise Thanks to the rise of Github, the notion that there should be a central repository for source code in the cloud has been pretty well established. But as useful as source code is, most IT organizations are struggling to manage binary images more than source code. JFrog […]

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business The development and deployment of mobile applications is more closely linked than with traditional enterprise IT applications. IT organizations want tools for developing these applications, but they also want the ability to update and manage them to be integrated within the development environment upon […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users At any given moment, massive amounts of raw data are flowing through an enterprise network that could be turned into actionable intelligence to prevent an IT problem from becoming a catastrophic event. To help divulge that actionable information, Corvil has unveiled Corvil Giga, a streaming analytics […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 When it comes to using memory as a persistent form of storage, the options today are indeed plentiful. At the Flash Memory Summit this week, Diablo Technologies unveiled Carbon2, an upgrade to the company’s storage platform that is based on DDR4 memory and that plugs directly into […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud With the arrival of memory as a persistent form of storage, managing which applications actually get to take advantage of this relatively expensive resource has become a bigger IT priority. To address that challenge, CacheBox today introduced CacheAdvance, a tool for monitoring application I/O requests that […]

Top Managed Service Provider Trends and Challenges Looking to turn the delivery of IT services into more of a turnkey proposition, IBM today announced that it will make available a series of services that customers can simply invoke online without having to ever meet or have any IBM services personnel on site. Ramki Desiraju, global […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off The biggest challenge with Big Data these days isn’t so much the size of it as it is providing access to it. Most data is strewn across multiple repositories in a way that makes accessing it cumbersome and slow, no matter how fast the platforms […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps With memory on servers being used increasingly for primary storage, it was only a matter of time before the best attributes of DRAM and Flash memory were unified in a single product. At the Flash Memory Summit, PMC announced today a series of PMC Flashtec […]

Network Evolution Key to Driving Cloud Expansion Now that Docker containers have emerged as an industry initiative, the company that created Docker has decided that competing directly against vendors that deploy Docker containers may not be the smartest use of its limited resources. Docker today announced that it has sold the dotCloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering […]