Mike Vizard

At the Citrix Synergy 2013 conference today, Citrix outlined what it described as a multi-phase effort to push Windows desktops into the cloud while at the same time announcing a raft of new mobile computing applications. According to Calvin Hsu, vice president of product marketing for desktop and apps, at Citrix, XenDesktop 7 is the […]

One of the killer applications that gets people excited about Big Data in general is being able to analyze massive amounts of machine data. After all, all that data is there for the taking; prior to the advent of data management frameworks such as Hadoop there was no real way to cost-effectively store all that […]

Just about every networking vendor is rushing to roll out support for Gigabit WiFi networks based on the emerging 802.11ac standard. But the real issue may not be the amount of available throughput as much as the ability to management it. To address both issues, Aruba Networks today unveiled the Aruba 220 Series Access Points, […]

IBM wants to bring cognitive computing in the form of the IBM Watson supercomputer to Smarter Commerce. At the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2013 conference, IBM today launched the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, an analytics application that optimizes customer support within a call center. According to Manoj Saxena, general manager of IBM Watson Solutions, […]

The biggest problem with cloud computing isn’t necessarily the delivery model as much as it is the lack of visibility into what people are doing with those cloud resources. Not only are there a raft of potential security issues, but, from a compliance perspective, the usage of external cloud computing resources often creates an untenable […]

The current fascination with deployment models in the cloud will soon give way to more practical approaches to managing tiers of private and public cloud computing resources. According to Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager for converged cloud at Hewlett-Packard, as cloud computing becomes more unified in the months ahead, thanks largely to […]

For years now, senior executives have had access to expensive services that allow them to share sensitive financial documents via hosted repositories that are managed by third-party service providers. Now those same capabilities are being opened up to any employee with a mobile computing device. BoardVantage recently launched MeetX and Backplane, departmental and enterprise-class document […]

Most enterprise IT organizations upgrade their Ethernet switches anywhere from every three to five years. Given that context, any significant architectural change, such as the emerging OpenFlow standard, is going to take a while to find mainstream adoption. Nevertheless, Hewlett-Packard already has 40 OpenFlow compatible switches in its FlexNetwork portfolio. The case for OpenFlow, says […]

SAP this week not only announced the general availability of its namesake ERP application on the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform, but also revealed a new technology partnership with Hewlett-Packard under which it collaborated on the development of an x86-class server configured with 12 terabytes of memory. Known as Project Kraken, the prototype system is […]

Not too long ago, the line between small-to-medium (SMB) businesses and larger enterprise IT organizations was fairly distinct. But as IT has evolved within the SMB sector, there are a lot more companies that require fairly substantial amounts of IT infrastructure even though they have less than 500 employees. The fundamental change with the SMB […]

As part of an effort to significantly increase its presence in the world of mobile computing, SAP this week unfurled a new cloud service for both managing and securing mobile computing devices. Leveraging security technology from Mocana that wraps security policies around a mobile application and the Afari management platform that SAP gained via its […]

As more IT organizations get comfortable with deploying middleware in the cloud, the need to integrate traditional enterprise applications with those emerging in the cloud starts to grow. To address that specific issue, Informatica today will announce that support for native SAP application connectors, which include access to SAP metadata along with Open Database Connectivity […]