Mike Vizard

As an early provider of Flash storage products aimed primarily at cloud service providers, SolidFire has until now largely ignored the enterprise. But with an additional $31 million in funding, Jay Prassl, vice president of marketing for SolidFire, says the provider of high-end Flash storage systems will soon be rolling out products that are optimized […]

Five Tips for Defending Against a DDoS Attack With the rise of advanced persistent threats (APTs), IT security has never been more challenging. While these types of attacks are still a small percentage of the total number of attacks being made, they tend to be a lot more lethal and targeted. As a result, IT […]

While the value of any application is directly related to the number of other applications it is integrated with, there is still a tendency to develop applications in isolation. Data integration is presumed to be something that takes place only after the application is developed using a completely different set of tools. Strategic Integration: 10 […]

Debunking Five Misconceptions About Cloud-Based Services IBM has shifted its cloud computing strategy by throwing its weight behind the Pivotal platform-as-a-service (PaaS) initiative that is being led by the subsidiary of EMC. Recently spun out as an independent business unit of EMC, Pivotal is developing a PaaS platform called Cloud Foundry that can be deployed […]

To celebrate the fifth birthday of the NoSQL Cassandra open source database, DataStax released an update to the enterprise version of Cassandra that makes it easier for applications built on SQL databases to transition to the NoSQL platform. Because of scale and cost issues, interest in running applications on Cassandra has steadily increased over the […]

When it comes to building a private cloud, most IT organizations are just looking for a way to cost-effectively share access to massive amounts of unstructured data that continues grow across the enterprise. Rather than using costly network attached storage (NAS) that depends on legacy file system technology, SwiftStack has released an object-based storage system […]

There are essentially two competing visions of how cloud computing in the enterprise will evolve. The first is driven by the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application model with which most organizations are familiar. The second is an emerging world of application programming interfaces (APIs) in the cloud through which organizations will transparently access data from multiple sources. […]

With more data than ever traversing corporate networks, it’s only a matter of time before network administers start to encounter Big Data problems of their very own. Either as part of an effort to optimize performance of certain applications or simply trying to adhere to compliance mandates, the ability to capture massive amounts of data […]

Fast Five Ways to a High-Efficiency Data Center For some time now, software-defined networking (SDN) and application delivery controllers (ADCs) have been on a collision course in terms of which platform will ultimately deliver the most control over applications. Just about every SDN comes with a set of northbound application programming interfaces (APIs) that promises […]

With just about every piece of infrastructure in the data center becoming programmable and upgradeable, existing network adapter cards are starting to look a little archaic. As part of an effort to modernize network adapter cards for servers in the age of the software-defined data center, Solarflare this week unveiled 10G Ethernet server adapters that […]

While just about everyone agrees that there is something akin to a new economy emerging around application programming interfaces (APIs), finding ways to effectively monetize those APIs has eluded a lot of organizations. To address that specific issue, Apigee is rolling out today an extension of its API management platform that gives organizations the ability […]

As a business intelligence application, Tableau Software has already signed up 12,000 customers for the on-premise version of its software. Now it’s looking to add hundreds of thousands more with the new version of its namesake software that runs in the cloud. Nine Considerations for Enterprises Establishing a Mobile BI Strategy By BI standards, Tableau […]