Mike Vizard

Ten Things You Need to Know About Software-Defined Storage To one degree or another, object-based storage is in the future of just about every enterprise. In fact, most of the storage services in the cloud today are enabled by object-based storage systems. SwiftStack wants to make it simpler to bring object-based storage to the enterprise […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 Ever since the rise of Flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), a debate has raged over how much Flash to deploy where and when. That debate has basically forced every vendor to fundamentally realign its overall product strategy in order to strike a balance […]

Network Evolution Key to Driving Cloud Expansion One of the biggest issues that any IT organization has with cloud computing is a loss of the sense of control they have over those resources. As part of an effort to restore that sense of control, Virtustream, with the release of version 3.0 of its xStream cloud […]

Twelve Cloud Storage Services for Work and Play While IT organizations are showing a lot of interest in cloud storage these days, many are not prepared to manage it. Not only is there complexity involved with actually setting it up, most providers of public cloud services are “faceless entities” in that they don’t provide much […]

Technology Strategy No Longer Just an IT Responsibility As it becomes increasingly clear that the cloud is going to become the dominant mechanism for integrating applications, vendors that specialize in business process integration (BPI) are taking notice. Instead of thinking of the cloud as a way to integrate disparate applications running in isolation, the cloud […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business Within most IT organizations, a clear line is emerging between systems of record, typically defined as ERP applications, and a broad range of systems of engagement, which organizations are deploying as part of an effort to get closer to the customer. Often missing from that equation […]

Up-and-Coming Open Source Projects for the Enterprise As an alternative to virtual machines, containers on Linux systems have been slowly gaining traction as of late. Containers essentially split operating systems into two components. The lower level manages traditional operating system functions such as systems resources. The upper level provides a portable set of run-time engines […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives One of the knocks against Linux has been that it has always been more challenging to manage than a Windows environment. With the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Red Hat is moving to make Linux one of the most advanced enterprise-IT platforms in all […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths Thanks to the advent of multicore processors, the average data center these days has access to a massive amount of compute capacity. Tapping into it efficiently, though, is another thing altogether. Fresh off of raising over $10 million in additional funding this week, Mesosphere has developed data center management […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives When it comes to managing storage these days, many IT organizations are making a tradeoff between the performance provided by Flash storage and the capacity enabled by magnetic storage. Nimble Storage today unveiled a CS700 Series hybrid storage array and All-Flash Shelf offering that makes managing the interplay […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 While interest in high-performance computing (HPC) has always been strong among organizations running technical applications, the rise of analytics in business environments has more organizations than ever looking into the merits of HPC server platforms. Looking to address that opportunity, Hewlett-Packard at the HP Discover 2014 conference […]

Reduce Risk: Six Vulnerable Points Enterprises Need to Consider As part of an effort to redefine how encryption is managed across the enterprise, Hewlett-Packard today has unfurled a suite of HP Atalla offerings at the HP Discover 2014 conference. Albert Biketi, general manager for Atalla within the HP Enterprise Security Products group, says the Atalla […]