Mike Vizard

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges As compelling an IT opportunity as Big Data can be, it’s not without its challenges—not the least of which is securing all that data. Looking to make it easier to apply encryption to distributions of Hadoop, Zettaset today announced it is making its encryption software available independently of […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives With the rise of containers as an alternative to virtual machines in Linux environments, IT organizations that make that shift will need a way to potentially manage thousands of containers. Looking to become one of the vendors that not only supplies those Linux containers but also manages them, […]

Five Ways to Tell You Are Outgrowing MySQL Oracle wants to be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to open source operating systems. With the general availability of Oracle Linux 7 today, Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux and virtualization engineering for Oracle, says Oracle is now delivering not only one […]

Five Critical Steps for Handling a Security Breach They say to be forewarned is to be forearmed. With that goal in mind, RSA, the security division of EMC, today released an update to its security intelligence software that enables IT organizations to monitor Web sessions in real time, while providing additional visibility into mobile computing […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives Following the rise of virtualization, there are within most enterprise IT organizations now two dominant management consoles. One is VMware vSphere and the other is Microsoft System Operations Manager. Starting today, Veeam Software, a provider of agentless backup and replication software, supports them both. Doug Hazelman, vice president […]

Key Features to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Backup and Restore Solutions Besides knowing that they’ll need more than they have on hand now, most IT organizations are not all that sure how much backup space they’re going to need in the future. As part of an effort to make it easier for IT organizations […]

What Business Leaders Need to Know About Virtualization One of the more significant issues with desktop virtualization is that it can be both costly to deploy and difficult to manage at scale. As a result, many organizations have deployed desktop virtualization software in one form or another with mixed success. Looking to give those IT […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives In industrial and construction settings, sometimes a push-to-talk (PTT) capability normally associated with a “Walkie Talkie” makes a whole lot more sense than a traditional smartphone. The challenge is that giving workers access to such dedicated communications devices is not only fairly expensive, the workers themselves usually already have […]

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business One of the more frustrating things about the development of business applications is when the business demands an application to address a specific, sometimes temporary, situation that the IT organization doesn’t have an effective means of addressing. Many of these “short order” applications consist […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths Earlier this year, Red Hat acquired Inktank to gain control over an open source distributed object store and file system known as Ceph, for managing object and block storage, that is now closely aligned with the OpenStack cloud management framework. This week, Red Hat announced it is extending the […]

Executive Insights for Building Trust in the Cloud Rather than thinking in terms of discrete applications, in the era of the cloud a more logical approach may be to start thinking in terms of the sensitivity of particular sets of data. Bitglass today announced the ability to split data between private clouds and both Box […]

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business As intriguing as it might be to have Apple and IBM this week committing to work together on building mobile applications for the enterprise, the more important thing is to focus on where mobile computing in the enterprise is headed versus where it is […]