Mike Vizard

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence SAP today took a significant step toward reshaping financial management processes across the enterprise via its new extensions to the SAP ERP Financials portfolio. Announced at the SAPinsider conference, these extensions are specifically optimized for the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform. Amit Sinha, senior vice president of […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Advances in the way organizations can view and manipulate data these days seem to be coming fast and furious. At the IBM Vision 2014 conference today, IBM announced a series of analytics initiatives, including previewing the Project Catalyst Insight analytics discovery tools that create predictive […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 When the costs of flash storage versus magnetic storage are fully loaded, it may very well be that flash storage at $2 per GB is going to trump magnetic storage when it comes to primary storage. Kaminario today launched version five of its K2 all-flash array, which […]

The 11 Essentials of Enterprise Security People involved in security research are working on behalf of the common good so they shouldn’t have to pay for the tools required to discover new threats. That’s the thinking behind a new free edition of malware discovery and analysis software for security researchers from Invincea. In partnership with […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges SAP has announced that its portfolio of business intelligence and analytics applications is running on the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. Christian Rodatus, senior vice president and general manager for SAP Analytics, says that, as of now, SAP analytics customers have the option of running SAP analytics on a […]

Up-and-Coming Open Source Projects for the Enterprise With a major migration to OpenStack and other cloud management frameworks starting to get under way in earnest, it’s now once again almost anybody’s ball game in terms of who winds up dominating the data center. This week at the OpenStack Summit 2014 conference, Canonical made a convincing […]

Key Features to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Backup and Restore Solutions When it comes to backup and recovery, Quest Software was always generally listed in the “other” category when it came to market share. But since Dell acquired Quest Software, the whole backup and recovery category has been receiving a lot more attention from […]

Ten Things You Need to Know About Software-Defined Storage While unified storage has always been a desirable goal, making it actually work in the enterprise has always been problematic. Unified storage can work perfectly well in a small-to-medium (SMB) environment, but once an organization needs access to data storage that scales, unified storage systems generally […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives Since Dell acquired KACE back in 2010, it has confined its IT management ambitions to Windows environments. With the release this week of the Dell KACE K1000 Systems Management Appliance, Dell is employing a mix of agent and agentless technologies to not only manage Windows endpoints, but now […]

Key Features to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Backup and Restore Solutions The big challenge with backup and recovery is that not only is the amount of data that needs to be backed up starting to exceed what can be done in a 24-hour window, but meeting recovery point and time objectives has become nearly […]

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data Manufacturers of PCs have come under a lot of criticism for their inability to come up with a tablet that runs Windows and has enough appeal to counter the popularity of the Apple iPad. Today Lenovo is aiming to silence those critics with the unveiling of a 10-in. ThinkPad […]

Data Center Applications and the Cloud: What You Need to Know While Salesforce.com may be best known for delivering customer relationship management (CRM) software as a service, it also operates a Heroku cloud that is gaining a significant amount of momentum in terms of the number of applications running on that platform. Starting today, Salesforce.com […]