Mike Vizard

Rather than thinking of various database technologies that have recently gained prominence as alternatives to each other, Teradata is making a strong case for their unification. Teradata announced that it is extending its Unified Data Architecture by allowing the same SQL programming framework it uses for its relational database and the Aster Data massively parallel […]

Real-Time Mobile App Strategy for Data a Priority in 2013 As more developers become familiar with the nuances of developing mobile computing applications, they are starting to get frustrated with the limitations of HTTP. The basic problem is that HTTP introduces a lot of network overhead that adds a fair amount of network latency to […]

Recognizing that the fundamentals of Flash economics have fundamentally changed, IBM today announced a new all-Flash memory storage system along with a commitment to invest $1 billion in Flash memory research and development. According to Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive for IBM Software and Systems, as overall server performance has improved dramatically, […]

As part of a calculated effort to make its IT service management (ITSM) software more accessible, Kaseya this week announced it is pursuing a more modular approach to packaging its software that includes free access to specific auditing and patch management modules. According to Gerald Beaulieu, vice president of product marketing at Kaseya, different types […]

Aruba Networks this week extended the reach of its wireless network platform into the realm of mobile applications management and deployment. The company today launched Aruba Workspace, an extension of the company’s ClearPass Management system for managing Aruba wireless networks that encompasses the mobile devices and applications attached to a wireless network. According to Robert […]

As technology to manage data becomes more diverse, Oracle is expanding its view of data management well beyond the SQL database. This week at the Collaborate 13 Independent Oracle Users Group conference, Oracle announced a lower cost of entry for the Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 Rack based on six Sun Sparc servers along with […]

With the advent of Ethernet fabrics, the number of tiers that need to be managed across an enterprise network is being sharply reduced. In fact, instead of thinking in terms of routers and switches, the gear that makes up the network is now being managed as one logical platform for delivering network services. Right now, […]

Starting this summer, SugarCRM plans to begin shipping an upgrade to its namesake customer relationship management (CRM) application that can not only be deployed on a variety of mobile computing devices, but it also allows salespeople to more readily discover relevant customer information inside and out of the CRM system. According to SugarCRM CEO Larry […]

The Linux Foundation, with the backing of no less than 10 major IT vendors, is getting ready to turn the emerging software-defined networking (SDN) market on its head. The consortium that is best known for pushing the adoption of Linux today announced that it is working on an open source SDN controller, called the OpenDaylight […]

While it’s relatively easy to move virtual machines from one data center to another, moving the data associated with that data center is a whole other issue. Not only is it a challenge to move terabytes of data across a network, the performance of any applications running on top of a virtual machine trying to […]

Storage has always been about which vendor can make the most data available at the fastest speeds possible. This week, Coraid laid claim to both by adding 4TB SATA drives to its EtherDrive SRX storage systems, which, instead of relying on traditional storage protocols such as FibreChannel or iSCSI, make use of raw Ethernet to […]

With more organizations starting to realize that creating a truly mobile enterprise requires a lot more than giving users of mobile computing devices access to email, the complexity of mobile computing is pushing some of those organizations to re-evaluate how IT is managed and delivered all together. Seeing that transition as an opportunity, Hewlett-Packard today […]