Mike Vizard

Five Reasons Why HDD Is Dead and SDD Is Taking Over IT is rife with examples of how new technologies resulted in the law of unintended consequences being applied. The latest example of this could very well be software-defined storage. According to Sanbolic CEO Momchil Michailov, as more IT organizations become familiar with software-defined storage, […]

Five Ways to Realize Server Room Profitability Much like a new car, a data center starts to depreciate the minute the first spade of dirt gets turned. In a world where technology is now advancing at multiple rates of Moore’s law, that creates a significant problem for IT organizations that own their own data center. […]

What Business Leaders Need to Know About Virtualization Deploying a network virtualization platform is one thing; actually moving workloads across multiple virtual machines running on those networks is a whole other level of IT challenge. At the VMworld 2013 conference, Silver Peak Systems announced how it intends to make moving workloads between virtual machines easier […]

What Business Leaders Need to Know About Virtualization To really succeed with virtualization, IT organizations need to be able to tightly manage the convergence of servers, storage and networking. Accomplishing that, however, requires being able to coordinate massive amounts of machine data to identify the source of any particular performance issue. At the VMworld 2013 […]

How to Get IT, Security, and the Business on the Same Risk Page When it comes to compliance issues, IT organizations often find themselves in a difficult position. Usually, compliance mandates must be met, but the tools that IT organizations have at their disposal are often overly comprehensive and too complicated to deploy. Rather than […]

Eight Trends That Are Changing Network Security While no hypervisor has ever been hacked, when it comes to the application workloads that run on top of a virtual machine, security is still a concern. The trouble lies in a lack of shared visibility between the physical and virtual layers of computing that make up the […]

Six Emerging Threats All Security Professionals Should Prepare For Check Point Software Technologies gives IT organizations the ability to inspect any suspicious Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF file with a content inspection engine that has been added to the Check Point software security platform. With the release of Check Point R77 software blade, Check Point […]

Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy One of the biggest challenges of IT is managing the sheer volume of data and events that administrators are asked to deal with each day. With that issue in mind, Zenoss has added IT analytics capabilities to the Zenoss Service Dynamics IT management platform. Designed to complement an […]

What Business Leaders Need to Know About Virtualization Like so many vendors this week, Dell was foremost among those companies that came to VMworld 2013 conference to lavish praise on VMware. As part of that effort, Dell announced support for the new network virtualization platform being built by VMware, while also announcing that its Active […]

Best Practices for Enterprise Cloud Computing After signaling its intentions to create a vast ecosystem around VMware virtual machines for over a year now, VMware used its VMworld 2013 conference to describe how virtual data centers based on VMware should be deployed and managed. Speaking at the event, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger described how VMware […]

Five Reasons to Conduct a Storage Assessment Today In theory, Ethernet is supposed to be supplanting Fibre Channel, but as IT organizations start to build increasingly larger clouds, the I/O performance attributes of Fibre Channel continue to be too good to ignore. At the VMworld 2013 conference today, Emulex unveiled its latest Fibre Channel offerings […]

Given the fact that no data is created equal, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that IT has a great need to manage different classes of data, especially in this era of compliance. The problem, of course, is that when it comes to archiving or backing up data, the options have been relatively limited. At […]