Mike Vizard

Twelve Cloud Storage Services for Work and Play As part of an effort to make files easier to manage globally via a cloud service, Nasuni today announced it is adding a global file locking capability to its namesake cloud storage service. In addition, for the first time the company is also offering a synchronization service […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges In the wake of a rise of a variety of so-called NoSQL databases, there’s no doubt that data management has become more complex. But the one surprising thing is how constant the use of SQL has been. Looking to extend the reach of SQL into the realm of […]

Harnessing the Power of Big Data with Geospatial Mapping A year after first promising to bring the geospatial technologies created by Esri to the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform, the two companies announced today the general availability of their joint effort. At the Esri User Conference today, Ashish Sahu, director of SAP HANA Predictive, Text […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives As containers in Linux environments emerge as a lighter-weight alternative to hypervisors, it’s only logical that IT organizations would need a way to effectively manage those containers. To that end, a community is now forming around Kubernetes, an open source manager for Docker containers developed by Google. Along […]

Network Evolution Key to Driving Cloud Expansion One of the biggest issues that an IT organization has with adopting an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the lack of visibility they have into how resources are being consumed on those platforms. Looking to provide IT organizations with more of that visibility, […]

Top Five Considerations for a Secure Cloud Configuration With Amazon Web Services becoming a much bigger fixture within the enterprise, IT organizations are trying to find ways to optimize the performance of applications that need to share data between a private cloud and AWS. For many, that means moving their applications to a hosting center […]

Network Evolution Key to Driving Cloud Expansion Amazon Web Services (AWS) significantly expanded its enterprise ambitions today with the addition of a new document-sharing service and a significant expansion of the tools it provides organizations to build and manage mobile applications. Speaking at the AWS Summits 2014 conference in New York today, Amazon CTO Werner […]

Five Key Considerations for Backup & Recovery For a lot of folks, backup is a necessary evil. They know that it’s simpler and more reliable to spin up another instance of their applications running in another data center. The challenge has been that the cost of using such services has been fairly prohibitive for most […]

Are Your Firewalls Ready for Summer? When it comes to security, there is definitely a need for speed. Each additional layer of security that gets deployed starts to act as a drag on overall application performance. For that reason, many IT organizations are actually reluctant to turn on every security service at their disposal. Looking […]

Given the fact that most of the data that end users rely on is out of date to one degree or another, reports have historically only been of so much use. But with the convergence of mobile computing and open application programming interfaces, it’s now possible to make sure that every report is always updated […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 Assailed by new and existing competitors at a time when storage technology as a whole is rapidly evolving, EMC today went on the offensive across multiple storage fronts. The storage category leader announced today the acquisition of TwinStrata, a provider of heterogeneous cloud storage gateway appliances. The […]

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business For most employees, the business day revolves around reports that help them keep score in terms of how they are doing versus internal goals and external competitors. The problem is that most of those reports are out of date a few minutes after they […]