Mike Vizard

With the shift toward Flash-based storage systems and integrated servers now well under way, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is betting that IT organizations will significantly shift their enterprise IT spending in different directions. Looking to gain a bigger share of both the enterprise storage and server markets, HDS today extended its entire storage lineup and […]

There’s clearly a massive amount of interest in Flash storage these days as a way to alleviate performance bottlenecks. But one of the challenges IT organizations are likely to quickly encounter is trying to manage Flash-based storage systems at scale. According to Kaminario CEO Dani Golan, the major storage vendors have all built monolithic storage […]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but that’s only true if it doesn’t take hours to actually process and render it. In a move that will cut the amount of time it takes to process spatial data to a few minutes, SAP today announced it has partnered with Esri to bring the […]

There’s no doubt that identifying and then resolving IT issues has never been more challenging or complex. Not only are there more applications than ever, those applications can be running on any combination of virtual machines, software and physical infrastructure. IT people are then left to try to make sense of it all by monitoring […]

No matter where you turn these days, everybody wants to be able to share data in real time. Whether it is a financial services transaction or mobile computing application, the real-time requirement has become the same. The good news is that the shift toward real-time computing gives IT organizations an interesting opportunity to start rationalizing […]

If you’re going to rely on a business intelligence (BI) application that runs in the cloud, it needs to be lightning fast in order to compensate for any network bandwidth issues that might be encountered. With that issue in mind, BIME recently upgraded its core BI calculation engine to not only be able to support […]

One of the biggest challenges with customer relationship management (CRM) software even to this day is getting salespeople to actually enter data. CRM offers a lot of benefits to managers who are looking for more visibility into the sales process. But for the average salesperson, CRM software is often viewed as a data entry chore […]

As a NoSQL database, MongoDB may not generate as much interest as other SQL database alternatives such as Hadoop. But in terms of momentum in the enterprise, MongoDB is starting to fill a significant application development hole. Built around a document metaphor, MongoDB is making it possible for developers in the enterprise to build new […]

Throwing Flash memory at a performance problem is one thing, managing the data that resides in a solid-state disk (SSD) system is quite another. As part of an effort to make SSDs easier to both deploy and manage, DataCore Software has partnered with Fusion-io and Emulex to develop an SSD appliance that will be sold […]

To a certain degree, data formats are the bane of IT’s existence. Not only are there so many of them, but with the rise of Big Data, it’s starting to look like there soon will be many more. Of course, it’s the job of IT to stitch all these data formats together within applications to […]

There is no shortage of data that users of mobile computing devices need to access; the problem has been finding a simple way to actually make that happen. To address that specific issue, Roambi has made its report writer engine that unifies access to multiple types of data available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application in […]

There’s been a lot of talk about the need to build virtual data centers as a way to reduce the complexity associated with managing data centers that today are comprised of disparate server, storage and network resources. Looking to make visions of virtual data centers into a reality, PLUMgrid this week launched the PLUMgrid Platform, […]