Mike Vizard

IBM is betting that increased demand for applications infused with artificial intelligence (AI) is about to drive a spike in demand for Power Systems Servers. IBM today unveiled a new series of servers based on next-generation POWER9 processors that are optimized for deep learning algorithms that are employed to drive some of the latest AI […]

Once an IT vendor reaches a certain size, they generally start to slow down in terms of the number of innovations that they can bring to market simply if for no other reason than inertia. Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference this week appears to be the exception to that rule […]

Now that next-generation Intel processors are being made available in hyperconverged infrastructure appliances (HCI), many IT organizations will have to start coming to terms with depending less on rack-based systems. Dell EMC today announced that it is making available HCI appliances based on the Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th generation servers that incorporate the latest CPUs […]

Snowflake Computing today unfurled an automated service that makes it possible to ingest data in near real time into its namesake data warehouse as a service hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), thereby eliminating the need to manually manage extract, transform and load (ETL) processes. Matt Glickman, head of product for Snowflake Computing, says the […]

Now that instances of VMware running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that are managed directly by VMware are becoming more widely available, more attention is being paid to providing tools to migrate existing workloads from on-premises environments into VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware and AWS at the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference today announced VMware Hybrid […]

Thanks mainly to the rise of advanced analytics, a whole new DataOps discipline is starting to take shape. Borrowing heavily from concepts first advanced under the banner of DevOps, the goal for organizations embracing DataOps is to create a set of structure processes around the data pipelines that are needed to drive analytics applications that […]

As IT continues to evolve, McAfee is betting the focal points for enforcing security will increasingly shift to the cloud on one end of the wire and endpoints on the other. To bolster its portfolio of cloud security offerings, McAfee today acquired Skyhigh Networks, a provider of cloud access security broker (CASB) software. McAfee CTO […]

Earlier this year, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) acquired Nimble Storage to gain in part access to predictive analytics software that the company had developed to automate the management of storage systems aimed primarily at the midmarket. HPE today announced it is extending that capability, now known as HPE InfoSight, to the higher HPE 3PAR family of […]

Given the amount of raw horsepower there is available now in the data center, many IT organizations are trying to maximize utilization of servers at the lowest cost per virtual machine possible. To appeal to that constituency of the IT community, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced a HPE Proliant DL385 Gen 10 server based on […]

There’s a lot of interest in the idea of having composable infrastructure that enables compute, storage and networking elements of a data center to be dynamically invoked as necessary. But thus far, most of the progress when it comes to composable infrastructure has been limited to compute, storage and networking technologies that all come from […]

As the different types and classes of cloud computing environment continue to expand, many organizations are increasing their reliance on external service providers. This week, Rackspace in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced it is now extending the managed private cloud service it provides to instances of OpenStack running in its data centers or in […]

While smartphones such as the Apple X or Google Pixel generate a lot of enthusiasm among end users, for IT organizations these devices represent the beginning of a massive wave of change at the edge of the network. Not only are these and other mobile computing devices equipped with multiple radios for connecting to wireless […]