Mike Vizard

Ten Things You Need to Know About Software-Defined Storage In theory at least, cloud computing is pretty much defined by elasticity. The whole idea of building a cloud, after all, is to make IT infrastructure resources available on demand. IBM announced today that it is applying that concept to storage on a global scale regardless […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes One of the more noteworthy things about Hadoop is how quickly the platform is evolving in terms of its ability to manage data. For example, one of the more sophisticated attributes of version 2.0 of Hadoop is that it provides resource management that is isolated from the underlying processing components. […]

Ten Things You Need to Know About Software-Defined Storage One of the benefits of using a storage management application is that the location of the actual storage device doesn’t matter all that much. Taking advantage of that benefit, DataCore’s release of SANsymphony-V10 has added a Virtual-SAN capability that turns all the Flash memory and magnetic […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users Despite all the governance and security issues associated with spreadsheets, they are still one of the most widely used productivity applications in business. But the folks at Accenture say the time has come to sharply reduce that dependency. Today, analytics applications not only provide more business […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 When it comes to the IT environment, complexity rules the day. A number of interdependencies between applications running on servers are now being pushed to their maximum utilization rates. The challenge that this creates is that the crash of a single server can have a cascading effect […]

Seven Ways “As a Service” Can Benefit You Following through on previous commitments, HP today announced that it is investing a billion dollars to develop a broad range of products and services based on the OpenStack cloud management framework and the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) development environment. Patrick Eitenbichler, worldwide director of product marketing at […]

Cloud Security: Technologies You Need to Safely Use the Cloud IT organizations looking to leverage the cloud often find that they have to either find a cloud service provider that supports the virtual machine environment on which they have standardized, or tweak their applications in a way that allows them to run on the supported […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users Splunk extended the number of data sources to which its analytics engine can be applied by adding support for a broader range of NoSQL databases and mainframe data. The company also improved the overall usability of the Splunk application environment. Version 6.1 of Hunk: Splunk Analytics […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 In the age of the cloud, IT organizations are more dependent on wide area networks (WANs) than ever. The problem is that while WAN bandwidth remains relatively constrained, the number of applications looking to share data across the links has increased exponentially. Coming out of stealth mode […]

EMC today sought to extend the reach and scope of its storage portfolio via the acquisition of a provider of shared, scalable Flash storage systems and extensions to its ViPR software-defined storage offering that adds support for both block data and commodity drives. In addition, EMC formally unveiled the EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) Appliance […]

How Heartbleed Is Changing Security IBM today extended the scope of its security intelligence framework to create the IBM Threat Protection System, which is aimed at creating a closed-loop approach to security management that spans from the discovery of the vulnerability to remediation of known breaches. Based on an array of security technologies that IBM […]

Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy The fact that SAP is moving its Ariba e-commerce network onto the SAP in-memory computing platform HANA shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. But what will be of profound significance is the analytics capability that Ariba customers will soon have at their disposal. Tim Minahan, CMO for […]