Mike Vizard

Usage of parallel file systems was confined to mainframes and high-performance computing (HOC) environments. But as more advanced analytics applications are built, more enterprise IT organizations are finding they need to access more data in near real time to drive these applications. To help meet that requirement, Panasas developed a scale-out ActiveStor network attached system […]

Now that smartphones are standard-issue equipment for many organizations, the IT department is exercising a lot more influence over which devices wind up in the hands of corporate users. In recognition of that fact, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is making available an enterprise edition of the Samsung Galaxy Note8 that includes Enterprise Firmware Over the […]

Given the fact that more cyberattacks than ever seem to be circumventing existing security defenses, interest in alternative approaches to IT security is naturally on the rise. Bracket Computing today unveiled one of the approaches in the form of a lightweight hypervisor that further isolates guest operating systems from the underlying virtual machine platform. Bracket […]

Salesforce at a Dreamforce 2017 conference this week extended the reach of its customer relationship management (CRM) cloud service to include tighter integration with the G-Suite productivity applications delivered as a cloud service by Google, including in some cases access to G-Suite licenses at no additional cost for one year. In addition, the two companies […]

Most data in the enterprise is distributed in a way that makes it difficult for organizations to turn it into actionable intelligence. Centralizing all that data in a way that an analytics application can effectively consume is often cost prohibitive. Commvault at a Commvault Go 2017 conference today announced that in 2018 it will be […]

The rivalry between providers of storage arrays is being ratcheted up several notches today following both the launch of a new all-Flash storage array for the midmarket from Dell EMC and the introduction of a program that among other things includes a money-back satisfaction guarantee for three years and a promise that Dell EMC storage […]

Most organizations today are not going to get a Good Housekeeping seal of approval for the way they manage data. And yet, now that data is the new oil, it’s critical that there be some architecture in place to store and manage data in a way that enables it to be consumed by machine learning […]

Not many people especially like having to attend meetings, but Cisco is at least trying to make setting one up and dialing in a whole lot simpler. Cisco at a Cisco Partner Summit 2017 conference today announced it will be adding a voice assistant to the Cisco Spark collaboration cloud service that end users can […]

When it comes to monitoring events that occur within an IT environment, there is no shortage of tools. The challenge is correlating all that data in a way that creates some actual actionable intelligence. Riverbed today at a Riverbed Disrupt event moved to address that issue via an update to Riverbed SteelCentral that identifies how […]

Gaining access to cloud storage is one thing, but being able to effectively provision and manage it often winds up being another thing altogether. To address that issue, Chaos Sumo developed a data discovery, management and analytics service that resides directly in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud storage service. Now Chaos Sumo is […]

There’s not much any IT organization can do to prevent cybersecurity attacks from being launched. The best that can be hoped for is that the majority of these attacks will be blocked by the defenses they have put in place. Removing the malware that gets past those defenses then becomes a game of cat and […]

Making a sale today typically involves multiple teams of people who are a lot more focused on the overall relationship with the customer than they are on any given transaction. To facilitate a more team-centric approach to sales, SugarCRM has announced that the Fall 2017 edition of SugarCRM On-Demand of its customer relationship management (CRM) […]