Mike Vizard

LenovoEMC, a joint venture created by EMC and Lenovo earlier this year that now markets Iomega backup and recovery systems, is delivering its first product update today. While Iomega devices are targeted towards small-to-medium businesses (SMB environments), the latest software updates to the Iomega product portfolio bring some decidedly enterprise-class features, including support for virtual […]

There are more than a few organizations trying to manage instances of virtual servers running in Windows environments locally and on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform in the cloud. Now Hotlink is making it possible for those organizations to manage both using the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), which many of them […]

Top Five Questions to Answer Before Starting on Big Data Having identified Big Data as a major strategic opportunity, IBM has every facet of the company working towards optimizing the company’s product portfolio for Big Data applications. Today, IBM is rolling out software and hardware offerings that include a series of in-memory computing extensions to […]

Eight Private Cloud Myths Debunked Given the fact that competition between one cloud provider and another basically comes down to performance, it’s only natural for cloud service providers to be heavily investing in solid-state drive (SSD) technology. What may prove surprising is to what extent. CloudSigma today announced that it is rolling out a public […]

Gaining real visibility into application performance has always required correlating various sources of infrastructure and application data. The trouble is that not only is that a time-consuming task, it generally involves playing several rounds of the blame game before anybody can figure out what the real source of the problem actually is. Riverbed Technology is […]

One of the biggest knocks against virtual desktop infrastructure is the tax it places on storage area networks (SANs) for I/O performance of desktop applications. Not only are SANs expensive, they are generally being used to run mission-critical databases applications, which means storage administrators don’t have a whole lot of interest in allocating what little […]

In the home these days more people than ever are integrating devices with multiple screens into their lives. It’s not uncommon for people to watch television while perusing something on the Internet using a tablet device to find something related to what they are watching. More advanced users are even using their big screen televisions […]

Best Practices for Enterprise Cloud Computing Unlike most providers of cloud computing services, just about everything IBM does in the cloud comes with a healthy dose of analytics attached. This isn’t just because IBM has spent over $14 billion acquiring analytics intellectual property. IBM sees cloud computing as a way to embed the company’s services […]

As the development of a digital economy based on application programming interfaces continues to gain momentum, organizations are running into issues relating to scale that are slowing the growth of the overall API economy. Looking to give the emerging API economy an additional shot of stimulus, Apigee today opened the Apigee API Exchange, a mechanism […]

MapR Technologies, a provider of a Hadoop distribution that is tailored for mission-critical application environments, today announced two simultaneous initiatives designed to make its platform more accessible. Via a partnership with Canonical, the company is making its distribution of Hadoop available with Ubuntu, the distribution of Linux that has been developed by Canonical. Secondly, MapR […]

Best Practices for Enterprise Cloud Computing While it’s not clear who benefits most from self-service IT, it is a trend that is starting to gain traction in the era of the cloud. On the one hand, self-service IT allows end users to access a pre-defined set of IT resources without having to wait for the […]

The Seven Deadly Sins of Backup and Recovery As the amount of data that needs to be managed continues to spiral out of control, backing up all that data in a timely manner becomes a major challenge. Looking to address that issue, Sepaton recently began shipping a 2100-ES3 series 2925 backup appliance that is capable […]