Mike Vizard

As part of a concerted effort to establish stronger relationships with C-level executives, who are increasingly becoming the primary decision makers about what applications to deploy in the cloud, IBM this week unfurled a comprehensive portfolio of cloud applications designed to appeal to heads of different lines of business within the enterprise. The latest cloud […]

When it comes to moving applications to the cloud, IT organizations quickly become uncomfortable because of a perceived lack of control over the environment. Back to Basics: Objectives for Successful Cloud Adoption To help IT organizations regain that sense of control, ThousandEyes today unveiled an approach to managing cloud applications that leverages agents and analytics […]

Within any IT organization, there is a lot that can go wrong. What’s never really clear is what’s going wrong at any given time. To help IT organizations specifically address that issue, NetScout Systems today launched nGeniusONE, a unified performance management tool that leverages deep packet inspection technology to provide actionable intelligence across the network, […]

An IT organization of any size spends a lot of time looking at myriad dashboards tied to specific products and services in the hope that some larger truth will eventually make itself apparent. Of course, that rarely happens, which is why Datadog, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application for monitoring and analyzing IT infrastructure […]

It’s no secret that Dell views storage as a critical component of its plan to gain a larger share of the enterprise IT market. What’s not so apparent is how far Dell has come since opting to no longer resell EMC storage products. At the recent Dell Enterprise Forum, the company unveiled a raft of […]

With just about every major vendor in the enterprise pledged to support the emerging OpenStack framework for managing IT in a cloud computing environment, it was only a matter of time before one of them took the next logical step for creating an actual operating system environment for the cloud. Cloud Adoption Trends Favor Private […]

When it comes to provisioning servers, a tremendous amount of progress in recent years has been made in the way of increased automation. Progress in terms of extending that level of automation out to storage systems: not so much. NetApp this week moved to address that issue with the release of an update to the […]

Tibco this week announced the acquisition of StreamBase Systems, a provider of streaming analytics software that is used in real-time environments typically associated with complex events processing (CEP) applications. According to Tibco CTO Matt Quinn, while streaming analytics today is usually associated with financial services applications, with the rise of Big Data, the technology will […]

While many people tend to think that the term Big Data is synonymous with Hadoop, the reality of the situation is that any successful Big Data project will wind up encompassing multiple data management platforms. As part of an effort to make managing all those technologies more feasible, HP this week at the HP Discover […]

The problem with existing file systems is that they were never designed to deal with Big Data, which results in a lot of fragmentation that makes IT that much more difficult to manage. To address that issue, Intel today is releasing an enterprise edition of Lustre, an open source distributed parallel file system that masks […]

When it comes to Flash storage arrays, the ultimate issue may not be exactly how fast any particular array can go as much as how easily it fits within a larger storage management strategy. At the HP Discover 2013 conference today, Hewlett-Packard extended its storage portfolio to include a new Flash array that is integrated […]

Gaining insight into what’s occurring on systems running VMware can be a significant challenge for most IT organizations. IT tends to have separate sets of tools that give visibility into applications and the underlying physical IT infrastructure. But when it comes time to see what’s happening at the virtual machine layer, most are running blind. […]