Mike Vizard

As cloud computing becomes more hybrid, it by definition becomes more complex. While there is no shortage of issues associated with building and managing hybrid cloud computing environments, it’s clear that among the thorniest is going to be the management of data. Making that all the worse is the fact that not only is the […]

Looking to fundamentally change the dynamics of the Ethernet switch market, Mellanox Technologies this week announced a Generation of Open Ethernet initiative through which the company is making much of the software that drives its Ethernet switches available as open source code. According to Gilad Shainer, vice president of market development for Mellanox, the goal […]

EMC today not only launched faster Flash memory cards and an all-Flash storage array, for the first time it is signaling its intention to provide the software needed to unify the management of Flash memory. According to Barry Ader, general manager for the EMCFlash Business Unit, EMC is looking to bring a certain amount of […]

With the introduction of database appliances, Oracle is not only giving database administrators (DBA) more control over the virtual and physical IT environment, the number of databases that a single DBA can manage is increasing dramatically. Oracle today launched Oracle Database Appliance X3-2, which increases overall database performance by a factor of two by adding […]

Five Tips for Motivating Virtual Teams Now that Marissa Mayer and Yahoo have shown a spotlight on the downsides of telecommuting, a lot of organizations are starting to ask themselves how managing the whole process could be improved. In the case of Yahoo trying to figure out who might be actually be working at any […]

As in-memory computing gets more sophisticated, it’s becoming apparent that there are going to be multiple tiers of memory that need to be managed just like there are multiple tiers of storage. To address that issue, Terracotta, a unit of Software AG, today at the CeBit 2013 trade show unveiled Terracotta In-Genius, a data management […]

One of the more unappreciated aspects of cloud computing is how quickly costs can spiral out of control. Not only do services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) charge by the hour for compute resources, access to their networks can be prohibitively expensive. To help rein in those costs, Silver Peak System this week announced […]

Everybody by now has some understanding that cloud computing is fundamentally changing the way IT is built, deployed and managed; they’re just not exactly sure how. Engine Yard this week gave IT organizations a good glimpse into what that future may be like with the unveiling of a new architecture that will be used to […]

There are those who would argue that SAP application software is too critical to run anywhere but on premise. But there are also those who would argue that SAP software is too critical to run anywhere else but the cloud. IBM is betting that there will soon be a lot more organizations thinking the latter […]

As IBM approaches the two-year anniversary of the launch of the IBM Smarter Commerce initiative, the company is in the process of revamping nearly $3 billion worth of acquisitions that currently make up most of the Smarter Commerce portfolio. According to Craig Hayman, general manager for Industry Solutions at IBM, rather than collapse all those […]

As part of a much broader effort to make mobile computing the central theme for 2013, Salesforce.com this week rolled out a series of mobile extensions to its service management software. According to Michael Peachey, senior director of solutions marketing for Salesforce.com, as end users increasingly rely on mobile computing devices, they are expecting to […]

In one of those moves that will make some IT professionals groan while others rejoice, CommVault this week, with the release of version 10 of the Simpana data management platform, is giving end users direct control over the data they have rights to access. While some IT professionals may welcome the prospect of giving end […]