Mike Vizard

Five Reasons to Conduct a Storage Assessment Today While IBM may be dominant when it comes to all things mainframe, EMC has been steadily expanding its share of the mainframe storage business. EMC’s launch of new disk-based library systems for mainframe environments that are based on the company’s VMAX, VNX, or Data Domain storage platforms […]

What Business Leaders Need to Know About Virtualization To expand the reach and scope of a scale-out storage architecture that can be defined by software, HP extended its storage offerings to include a 4TB license for small sites and a 50TB high-capacity license to support more granular, automated tiering of data and tighter integration with […]

Top Ten PCI Compliance Services, July 2013 IT organizations are being asked to police policies they didn’t create, which naturally causes a lot of frustration because they lack the tools to actually accomplish the job. Skyhigh Networks has announced the availability of Skyhigh Secure, a cloud service that promises to greatly simplify the management of […]

Five Best Practices for Disk Drive Storage Decisions Last year Skyera introduced a Flash storage array based on consumer-grade Flash storage technology that made Flash storage affordable for a much wider array of customers. Now Skyera is taking that concept one step further. At the Flash Memory Summit conference, the company introduced a Flash storage […]

SAP ERP software is definitely something most organizations need to grow into; it’s the pains usually associated with that growing that companies could do without. To simplify the process associated with first-time deployments of its ERP software, SAP has created the SAP ERP Foundation Extension, a turnkey platform for deploying its ERP software on top […]

Ten Steps You Shouldn’t Take to Make Storage Run Faster Taking advantage of 19 nanometer technology has allowed Violin Memory to deliver a Flash memory array at $5 per gigabyte, which is priced roughly the same as high-performance magnetic storage systems. Based on new Flash controller technology developed by Toshiba, the 6264 flash Memory Array […]

Debunking Five Misconceptions About Cloud-Based Services While there’s a lot of interest in being able to move workloads running on VMware into the cloud, a lot of cloud service providers have yet to make that very easy to accomplish. With that issue in mind, iland has made available its implementation of VMware vCloud Connector Advanced […]

As part of a significant effort to expand its e-commerce reach, SAP has outlined an approach to unify its customer experiences across multiple channels. Based on the e-commerce software that SAP gained with its recent acquisition of hybris, the SAP omni-channel strategy relies heavily on an application that presents a unified view of all data […]

By now, just about any organization running virtual machines is familiar with the I/O management challenges that can have a substantial impact on application performance. The challenge, of course, is that because the I/O requests that tend to create these bottlenecks are random, traditional storage systems often don’t adequately address the problem. Fortunately, a new […]

When SAP acquired Sybase in 2010, the deal provided access to a raft of technologies that SAP has been gradually integrated into its applications. The latest of these integration efforts arrived this week in the form of SAP Sybase Replication Server for SAP Business Suite software running on top of the SAP Sybase Adaptive Server […]

IBM today revealed that as far as the Power series processor architecture is concerned, there is strength in numbers. In partnership with Google, NVIDIA, Mellanox Technologies and Tylan, IBM announced it has formed the OpenPOWER Consortium. According to Brad McCredie, IBM vice president and chief technology officer for the IBM Systems and Technology Group, the […]

When it comes to compute-intensive workloads, density has become the number one challenge due to the space constraints of the data center. The primary goal is to pack as much computing power as can be effectively managed by few administrators into as small of a space as possible. To rise to that challenge, IBM unveiled […]