Mike Vizard

Conventional wisdom holds that PCs will remain relevant in the enterprise because while other devices can consume content, it’s still a challenge to employ them to create content. At a launch event in New York today, Samsung Electronics unveiled a Note8 smartphone that takes advantage of a 10-nanometer processor, 6GB of RAM, and up to […]

Blockchain technologies have the potential to transform how business-to-business transactions are conducted by providing access to a shared immutable ledger. IBM today announced it is ready to put those blockchain technologies to use in a production environment hosted on the IBM Cloud. Brigid McDermott, vice president of blockchain business development and ecosystem for IBM, says […]

IT organizations can employ a lot of tools to manage policies that can be applied to almost anything in the IT environment. But given the complexity of the IT environment, it turns out figuring out exactly what policy to create and when and where to apply it is a major challenge. To address that challenge, […]

Aiming to provide IT administrators with more control over virtual instances of Windows running on systems from Apple, Parallels today unveiled a range of new capabilities in the latest update to its desktop virtualization software for Macintosh systems. Nikolay Dobrovolskiy, vice president of software engineering for Parallels, says Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac will give […]

Because most of the widely employed collaboration applications are delivered as a cloud service, the average IT organization doesn’t have a lot of control over how those services get used. Aiming to provide IT organizations with the control needed to comply with any number of compliance regulations, Cisco announced today it is making available an […]

Interest in NVMe-based systems is running high as IT organizations look to consolidate server and storage sprawl inside their data centers. Naturally, all that interest is also creating significant amounts of pressure on vendors to make their NVMe-based offering available sooner rather than later. Tegile Systems today announced it has become one of the first […]

There’s a natural tension between trying to maintain control and security and the need to be a more agile organization. As part of an effort to put those competing concerns to rest, Quick Base this week announced that its online database has been certified to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), […]

The rise of cloud computing creates an opportunity to rethink how data protection gets implemented and managed on an end-to-end basis. Instead of thinking about backup and recovery, archiving and business continuity in isolation, the cloud creates an opportunity to unify all those processes. Druva is enabling IT organizations to unify all those processes using […]

The employees that typically need a workstation are among the most valuable inside any given organization. Because of that basic economic issue, it’s in the best interest of organizations to maximize the amount of time those employees can spend working on a project wherever they happen to be at any given time. To maximize those […]

Aiming to inject machine learning technologies into its networking platform, Plexxi announced this week that it is partnering with Decision Lab. Mat Mathews, vice president of product management for Plexxi, says the fruits of that partnership will result in a new product that Plexxi will add to its portfolio that will embed machine learning algorithms […]

Aiming to provide IT organizations with a maximum amount of flexibility when it comes to backup and recovery, Barracuda Networks today announced it can now replicate data into Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud via a physical or virtual Barracuda appliance running Barracuda Backup software. Rod Mathews, senior vice president and general manager for data […]

Not too long ago, anything to do with analytics was assumed to be a batch job that would be processed sometime well after any given set of events occurred. These days, however, within the context of a digital business, organizations want access to analytics applications in real time. To enable IT organizations to achieve that […]