Mike Vizard

Five Best Practices for Disk Drive Storage Decisions As Flash memory has begun to become a popular choice across the enterprise, a merger and acquisition frenzy has started. The latest example came this week in the form of the acquisition of WHIPTAIL by Cisco in a deal valued at $415 million. In addition to giving […]

Eight Ways to Avoid Explosive Rises in IT Costs While workstations have never been more attractive from a pricing perspective, resistance to buying them has always been high in IT organizations that tend to standardize on a particular desktop system. But this week’s launch of a slew of workstations based on the latest processors from […]

IBM is using the formal unveiling of the next-generation Xeon processors from Intel today to launch a new high-density architecture that will provide a foundation for a broad range of forthcoming IBM servers. The first substantiation of this architecture is the NeXtScale System that allows three times as many processor cores to be put in […]

Five Best Practices for Disk Drive Storage Decisions Flash storage took a major step toward becoming a mainstream storage medium with the acquisition of Virident Systems by Western Digital in an all-cash deal valued at $685 million. That deal comes on the heels of its acquisition of sTec, another provider of Flash memory and solid-state […]

Five Ways to Realize Server Room Profitability Navigating IBM mainframe pricing has always been an adventure in complexity. When it comes to deploying workloads on a mainframe, the options are numerous. Most mainframe shops always have a nagging feeling that they are paying too much for something; they are just never sure what. To help […]

Tracing the Evolution of Business Intelligence Through the Rise of Embedded Analytics The line between business intelligence and analytics applications continues to get blurrier with the release of the latest version of SAP business intelligence software. At the BusinessObjects 2013 User Conference today, SAP formally announced version 4.1 of SAP BusinessObjects BI application, which now […]

As cloud computing continues to evolve, it’s becoming pretty clear that IT organizations need to start acting a lot more like service providers. Of course, what any service provider will tell you is that the quality of the service being provided is only as good as the network that supports it. Within the enterprise today, […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution When it comes to cloud computing, the ultimate goal is to essentially erase the barriers between data centers in a way that allows workloads to dynamically run wherever they are best suited. We’re a long way from making that happen across heterogeneous environments. But Skytap […]

What Business Leaders Need to Know About Virtualization While the VMworld 2013 conference was clearly a celebration of all things VMware, IT organizations usually live in heterogeneous environments with multiple types of both physical and virtual networks. During the conference, HP announced its intention to support the new VMware NSX network virtualization platform within the […]

To provide Windows applications to users of Apple Macintosh systems, two basic approaches are available. They can either access cloud services that have been specifically designed to allow them to interact with Windows applications or they can run a local instance of Windows on their local Apple Macintosh system. Depending on the frequency and unique […]

Five Reasons to Conduct a Storage Assessment Today EMC is changing the way that its storage systems interact with flash storage to deliver new VNX midrange storage systems that are four times faster than the previous generation of EMC’s storage offerings. In addition, EMC is previewing Project Nile, an approach to unified storage that leverages […]

Five Best Practices for Disk Drive Storage Decisions HP, in partnership with Intel, significantly expanded the capabilities of its forthcoming line of Project Moonshot servers by adding support for a new class of low-energy Intel Atom C2000 processor family, code named Avoton, based on the Silvermont micro-architecture. According to John Gromala, senior director for hyperscale […]