Mike Vizard

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy One of the things that holds back the adoption of application programming interfaces (APIs) is that they can be difficult to manage. MuleSoft wants to make that whole process simpler via an upgrade to its Anypoint Platform for APIs, which includes API portal and API management software designed […]

Five Things to Do Now for Greater Security and Compliance Manually combing through logs looking for anomalies that might represent a security threat is not only tedious, it also introduces a level of security fatigue that makes it more likely for a security threat to go unnoticed. To help organizations reduce that risk, Splunk developed […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy With the planned acquisition of the IBM x86 server business, Lenovo is vaulting from the sixth largest x86 server provider behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Setting the stage for a major assault on both HP and Dell, Lenovo will acquire the x86 server business of IBM for $2.3 billion. […]

Ten Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014 In-memory database technologies are emerging as a hot new category, as evidenced today by the raising of an additional $35 million in funding by MemSQL. Founded by former Facebook engineers, MemSQL is designed to give organizations access to real-time analytics using standard SQL. MemSQL CEO Eric Frenkiel […]

Five Tips for Executing a Winning Mobile Strategy VMware signaled a strong push into mobile computing today by agreeing to acquire AirWatch in a deal valued at $1.54 billion. A provider of mobile management and security software, AirWatch provides mobile device management (MDM) software to 10,000 customers that can run on premise or in the […]

With data of all types now being viewed more as an asset than ever, how organizations go about archiving their data is starting to take on greater importance, especially when it comes to unstructured data that is growing at leaps and bounds across most organizations. To address that issue, EMC today released EMC InfoArchive, which […]

Five Surprising Stats on Cloud App Adoption One of the more annoying aspects of anything to do with the cloud is the number of individual services that have to be contracted in order to create something that resembles a workflow within an organization. Each of the services may seem relatively inexpensive, but when you add […]

Eight Reasons Why Organizations Should Virtualize The backup and recovery of physical machines is often hard enough, but throw in a few thousand virtual servers, and things can quickly become untenable. The latest vendor to address this issue is Symantec, which today released version 7.6 of NetBackup that not only scales to support petabytes of […]

The Struggle to Manage the Complexity of Modern IT Networks as a whole are becoming easier to manage thanks to the rise of application programming interfaces (APIs) that are used to create software-defined networks (SDNs) that can be managed at a higher level of abstraction. Anuta Networks is taking that concept one step higher with […]

Tracing the Evolution of Business Intelligence Through the Rise of Embedded Analytics The next generation of enterprise IT systems is being crafted in a way that will allow organizations to apply analytics with an eye toward affecting the outcome of a business processes in real time. The challenge with actually making that happen is that […]

Ten Predictions for Cloud Storage in 2014 Building out cloud infrastructure on a global basis is never a going to be a small undertaking so the fact that IBM is committing $1.2 billion to deliver cloud computing services should come as not that much of a surprise. But what is interesting are the factors influencing […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy IBM today unveiled the sixth generation of its x86 servers, which in an eight-way configuration now provide access to three times as much memory as before. With IT organizations looking to boost the performance of applications by putting entire databases in memory, Stuart McRae, IBM High End Server […]