Mike Vizard

Every time an IT organization adds another cloud, container or type of virtual machine to an environment, it exacerbates an already complex set of storage management challenges. To help relieve that headache, ioFABRIC has updated a data fabric spanning all those platforms to include artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that automatically identify the lowest cost storage […]

In the age of the cloud, there’s no doubt that managing IT is becoming more complicated as workloads become increasing distributed. To help IT organizations that have standardized on VMware software cope with that complexity, CenturyLink this week at the VMworld 2017 conference unfurled a CenturyLink Dedicated Cloud Compute (DCC) managed service based on the […]

One of the primary challenges organizations of all sizes regularly now face is the amount of data they need to manage across various silos of applications running on-premises and in the cloud. Much of that data is identical in that it refers to some aspect of a relationship a business has with a customer. But […]

At the VMworld 2017 conference this week, Dell EMC enhanced its portfolio of hyperconverged and converged infrastructure platforms as part of a longer-term plan to integrate the management of both platforms. The latest version of the Dell EMX VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance adds support for REST application programming interfaces that can be employed to […]

For some time now, manufacturers of magnetic and solid-state disk drives (SSDs) have been moving to also build and deliver storage systems themselves. Western Digital this week significantly expanded its storage systems portfolio by acquiring Tegile Systems, a provider of all-Flash arrays used for primary storage. Phil Bullinger, senior vice president and general manager for […]

Interest is rising in microsegmentation as a means for better securing network traffic moving east to west in a data center. The basic idea is that if any node in the data center gets compromised, the only other nodes that could be exposed to malware are the nodes that share the same microsegmented network connection. […]

At the VMworld 2017 conference today, VMware previewed a Workspace ONE service due out late next year that extends the management services VMware makes available via its AirWatch to both desktops running Windows 10 and MacOS and Google Chromebooks running ChromeOS. Previously, VMware provided the ability to manage mobile devices running Apple iOS and Google […]

Lenovo at the VMworld 2017 conference today announced it will make available a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliance based on the stack of vSAN storage software developed by VMware. Radhika Krishnan, general manager for converged/hyperconverged infrastructure and networking for Lenovo, says the ThinkAgile VX Series is a set of pre-integrated 2u appliances to unify compute and […]

VMware at the VMworld 2017 conference today made good on a promise to make a version of a stack of software on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in addition to delivering software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that can be applied to multiple clouds. VMware announced that VMware Cloud on AWS will initially be available on data centers residing […]

Data, in theory, should always be secure and universally available. In practice, data ends up being accessible to only a handful of applications via storage systems incapable of encrypting data. To make data both inherently more secure and accessible, Hedvig has updated its Distributed Storage Platform with Encrypt360 software to enable IT organizations to encrypt […]

As part of a larger plan to become a provider of network switches in the data center, D-Link unveiled this week the first in what will become a series of bare-metal switches that IT organizations can then use to deploy a third-party networking software. Steven Olen, product line manager for D-Link, says that historically, D-Link […]

Backup and recovery as a rule is a tedious task, usually assigned to one of the most junior members of the IT team. IBM today moved to turn that perception on its head with the launch of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus data protection software that is designed give application owners more control over when backups […]