Mike Vizard

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy At this point, just about everybody agrees that in-memory computing will transform IT. The degree to which that will happen is what is being fiercely debated. Last fall, Oracle promised to make available an in-memory computing option for the venerable Oracle database. Today, Oracle announced the imminent general […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers As part of an effort to help organizations to make the transformation into becoming a digital business by design rather than by accident, Pegasystems today previewed its first software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, while at the same time moving to acquire Better Business Software to gain […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud While price isn’t always the most important metric when it comes Flash storage, it’s still a major factor enterprises consider when deciding how much Flash storage to deploy. Now offering Flash storage in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), Tegile Systems has unveiled a T3800 Flash […]

Ten Reasons Why OpenStack Will Rule the Enterprise It appears that OpenStack and VMware are locked in a battle for control over the management of enterprise IT. Practically speaking, that means IT organizations can expect to be managing instances of both for years to come. To make that task simpler, Mirantis this week launched Mirantis […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 While it’s possible to run most traditional databases in memory, the rise of Big Data applications has created something of a challenge on solid-state drives (SSDs). Looking to rise to that challenge, Fusion-io today launched a new line of Atomic Series SSDs based on 20-nanometer MLC NAND […]

Best Practices for Teleconferencing with Employees Working Remotely With pricing of UltraHD, also known as 4K, video equipment rapidly dropping, it’s only a matter of time before the next generation of high-definition video comes to the office. Intel and Samsung, for example, earlier this week announced that they would be driving the cost of UltraHD […]

When it comes to Hadoop, the popular perception is that the open source data management framework is limited to mainly batch-oriented applications. As a result, running any serious real-time analytics application would require deploying expensive, massively parallel database systems. Looking to lay that misperception to rest, DataTorrent this week announced the general availability of DataTorrent […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 Intel this week introduced a new class of solid-state drives (SSDs) that make use of Intel’s third-generation controller and custom firmware to deliver speeds of 2.8GB per second read, up to 1.9GB per second for writes, and up 460,000 input and outputs per second (IOPS) via a […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps Giving people access to a mobile computing device and actually building a mobile workforce are two vastly different things. With that issue in mind, Good Technology launched its customizable collaboration application for mobile computing users that resides the cloud at the Good Exchange 2014 conference […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges Managing Oracle database environments has never been particularly simple, but with the rise of cloud computing and Big Data, it’s certainly become a lot more challenging. Oracle today moved to address this challenge with release four of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Dan Koloski, senior director of systems and […]

SAP wants to not only make using its applications a whole lot simpler, but also doing business with SAP or any other company, for that matter. At the Sapphire Now 2014 conference today, newly installed SAP CEO Bill McDermott said that SAP is now committed to not only giving customers access to data visualization and […]

Network Evolution Key to Driving Cloud Expansion Data storage used to be relatively simple, in the sense that it was generally all in one location. But with the advent of cloud computing, data is now stored both inside and out of the enterprise. Looking to help IT organizations get a better handle on all the […]