Mike Vizard

One of things about IT that a lot of people don’t always appreciate is just how much influence IT trends exert over business. Everywhere you go, business people are talking about the need for their businesses to become more agile. Top Missteps of Newly Agile Enterprises Of course, that’s a concept that’s been floating around […]

Recognizing that Hadoop and SQL database technology need to be joined at the hip in the enterprise, EMC Greenplum today announced Pivotal HD, an implementation of the company’s massively parallel database that is now integrated with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Eight Ways to Put Hadoop to Work in Any IT Department According to […]

There’s already no shortage of file synchronization options for mobile computing devices. But as mobile computing becomes an increasingly important part of almost every business process, managing file synchronization has become a more strategic function within the enterprise. SAP today announced it’s entering the file synchronization space with a new SAP Mobile Documents offering. According […]

IBM this week launched a massive all-company mobile computing push that the company says is a trend that will transform the enterprise as we know it. The IBM Mobile First effort encompasses everything from application development and deployment to security and analytics including: IBM MobileFirst Platform – New updates include expanded capabilities of IBM Worklight […]

One of the more uncomfortable realities of IT security today is that it’s not so much about prevention as much as it is remediating the inevitable security breach. Security vendors across the board are starting to recognize this, the latest of which is McAfee. The company has released an upgrade to its ePO security management […]

There’s a lot of tension between folks who work with SQL databases and supporters of Apache Hadoop that is largely unnecessary. To a degree Hadoop can replace SQL databases in a lot of data warehousing applications. But SQL databases will be the underpinning of mission-critical enterprise applications for years to come. Given that reality, it […]

The trouble with setting priorities when it comes to enterprise IT is that everything is related to everything else. So while mobile computing may be getting a lot of attention these days, the fact is that mobile is just one point on an enterprise IT continuum. Most recently, Gartner asked more than 2,000 CIOs to […]

Flash memory on the server is too expensive not to share. That’s the thinking that went into the development of the FlashMAX Connect suite of software from Virident Systems that allows multiple applications and servers to access server-side FlashMAX II Flash memory cards. According to Virident Systems CEO Mike Gustafson, FlashMAX Connect software essentially turns […]

Recognizing that there is IT life beyond its virtualization borders, VMware today released VMware Horizon Suite, a new suite that combines several existing VMware management offerings into a single product. VMware Horizon Suite consists of updates to the VMware Horizon View, the new name for VMware existing virtual desktop infrastructure software and VMware Horizon Mirage, […]

Interest in advances in communications processing technologies is usually reserved for a small group of engineers who build the networking gear deployed by Internet service providers (ISPs). But given the fact that just about everybody is less than satisfied with the performance of mobile computing devices, a new advance in communications technologies may be of […]

NetApp today made a decidedly bigger push into the Flash memory game. The company today previewed FlashRay, an all-Flash memory storage array that is built from the ground up to run optimally under a re-engineered NetApp OnTap storage operating system due out next year and the general availability of the EF540, an all-Flash array that […]

As a spinoff of 3M, it’s understandable that most people equate Imation with backup and archiving, especially after recently acquiring Nexsan. After all, Nexsan made its mark delivering disk-based storage systems that automate secondary storage. But Imation is now also pushing into primary storage. The latest example is the Nexsan NST5000 hybrid storage system, which […]