Mike Vizard

Dispelling the Myths and Fears of Converged Infrastructure While virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) always offers a certain amount of appeal to IT organizations looking to simplify desktop computing management, applications with a lot of latency sensitivity didn’t lend themselves to I/O constraints associated with running desktop servers on the server. But in the last year, […]

Seven Criteria for Choosing an IaaS Provider With IT organizations increasingly being asked to take control of the organization’s cloud computing deployments inside and outside of the data center, tools for managing heterogeneous cloud computing environments are becoming a major IT requirement. In the race to provide those tools, ScaleXtreme today announced the general availability […]

While the Payment Card Industry (PCI) specification has always been a sore spot for many IT organizations, the latest iteration of the PCI specification is about to become a significantly more expensive endeavor for most organizations to comply with. Rather than simply having a third-party certify PCI 3.0 compliance, IT organizations, by the latter part […]

Ten Steps You Shouldn’t Take to Make Storage Run Faster With the massive amounts of information that will be created in the years ahead, the ability to cost effectively store that data has become a major concern for companies of all sizes. To address those concerns, manufacturers of magnetic storage have been pursuing new approaches […]

Ten Steps You Shouldn’t Take to Make Storage Run Faster Many of the applications that can benefit most from all-Flash memory arrays also need to scale over an extended period of time. Case in point would be desktop virtualization, where an all-Flash array can be the difference between successful implementation and revolt by end users […]

The challenge with managing backup and recovery is that it’s often hard to distinguish between really important data that someone is likely to want to recover and data that no one is ever likely to want to recover. As a result, most IT organizations wind up backing up everything in the hope that the recovery […]

Excitement about natural language interfaces continues to rise, in part because of the fame and acclaim that the IBM Watson supercomputer has garnered. As impressive as the platform may be, natural language interfaces are also becoming more widely available within a range of applications. Case in point is DataRPM, a provider of a business intelligence […]

Nine Everyday Processes That Aren’t Paperless Yet, But Should Be Most of the filing techniques that end users rely on to keep track of various documents on their systems are deeply flawed. The filing is based on a file cabinet metaphor that the original developers of the PC created to mirror the way people managed […]

The Impact of Advanced Persistent Threats to Enterprises A world of difference exists between discovering a potential security threat and actually understanding the amount of potential harm it could cause. Looking to give IT organizations access to a set of analytics applications that allows them to visually see how lethal any given security threat might […]

Top Challenges Network Engineers Face in Migrating to Faster Networks With the rise of 10G and 40G Ethernet switches, Brocade is making the case for the consolidation of network switches across the enterprise. At the Supercomputing 2013 conference today, Brocade unveiled the Brocade ICX 7750, a switch that can support up to 3,000 1/10GbE ports, […]

Recognizing the fact that performance is pretty much everything in the world of Flash storage, NetApp today improved the performance of its Flash storage array to provide more than 400K of IOPs over a 12GBper second connection. In addition, NetApp unveiled an E2700 hybrid storage array that makes use of 4TB drives and an updated […]

The Struggle to Manage the Complexity of Modern IT Ever since Imation acquired Nexsan earlier this year, the provider of storage systems has been steadily moving up in weight class. What was once a product line that was almost exclusively focused on small to midsize business (SMB) customers has gradually been extended into the enterprise. […]