Mike Vizard

Ten Steps You Shouldn’t Take to Make Storage Run Faster Conventional wisdom holds that unified storage is only really going to appeal to small to midsize (SMB) organizations where the convenience of being able to centrally manage a single system has greater appeal than the raw performance of the storage system. However, Imation is bucking […]

Software AG today continued to reinvent itself via the acquisition of JackBe, a provider of a set of tools for visualizing and analyzing data integrations across multiple processes and events in real time. According to Mark Herring, senior vice president of product marketing for Software AG, the JackBe application will be offered as a standalone […]

Cloud Adoption Trends Favor Private Cloud Two to One Firing up a few virtual machines in the cloud is a relatively simple endeavor. Being able to manage a public cloud service like a natural extension of an enterprise network is quite another. Tier 3, a provider of cloud services that are optimized for traditional enterprise […]

CIOs and the New Service Provider: What You Need to Know As a provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM has been fighting for a piece of a rapidly expanding market against well-heeled competitors such as Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Now backed by a new $40 million investment led by Goldman […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution With the rise of the software-defined networks (SDN) in the data center, it was only a matter of time before cloud service providers starting making that capability available to customers. One of the first instances of these next-generation cloud platforms arrived in the form of […]

Mid-Market Cloud Services Adoption Trends When it comes to networking in the cloud, IT organizations are usually left with two choices. Rely on an Internet that is shared by everybody in the world or lease an MPLS network from a telecommunications carrier at an exorbitant rate. Aryaka, a provider of wide area network (WAN) optimization […]

After promising to integrate application and network performance management when it acquired OPNET Technologies last year, Riverbed Technology has unveiled an appliance that runs both OPNET application performance management software and the company’s existing Cascade network performance management software. According to Michael Cucchi, senior director of product marketing for Riverbed Technology, the Shark module for […]

Five Reasons to Conduct a Storage Assessment Today While how much and how quickly data can be stored and accessed will always be the primary attributes of a storage system, another set of attributes is starting to become more important. Whether it’s for backup and recovery or to copy data between applications, IT organizations are […]

No matter how you look at it, backup is a necessary evil that most organizations would rather be able to live without. A lot of organizations have been doing just that by replicating data between servers. The challenge has been that many of the services that provide that capability in the cloud are too expensive […]

Four Ways Security Analytics Can Improve Business Performance IBM this week bolstered its security lineup yet again via an acquisition that adds fraud prevention software to its wares. Trusteer’s software identifies malware that has compromised the credentials of an endpoint and prevents it from being installed. Trusteer’s product can be deployed as a software-as-a-service application […]

Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy CSC announced that it has acquired Infochimps, provider of a platform that combines an open source NoSQL database and Hadoop to deliver a streaming analytics application via the cloud. According to Infochimps CEO Jim Kaskade, the combination of CSC and Infochimps will rapidly extend CSC’s nascent effort to […]

Keep Calm and Patch On This Patch Tuesday ThreatTrack Security has become the latest vendor to roll out a closed-loop approach to identifying security threats. Once a threat has been determined, it then automatically remediates any vulnerability associated with that threat. As part of a growing array of security intelligence services, the Spyder Initiative that […]