Mike Vizard

Most people think of Uber as a provider of a mobile application that makes it handy to book a car service. But Uber has been providing organizations with access to an Uber for Business application as a cloud service that enables them to manage how their employees book those services. Uber today for the first […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today unveiled a series of new offerings designed to make it simpler for IT administrators to manage and secure a public cloud at scale. Announced at an AWS Summit event, the new capabilities span everything from an AWS Macie tool that employs machine learning algorithms to automatically discover and classify data […]

Many of the IT organizations that make use of a public cloud service such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) consist of small teams that don’t have much of an IT budget. Today at an AWS Summit event, Splunk announced it will make it less expensive for IT teams to monitor AWS by launching a Splunk […]

As IT organizations have strived to enhance their overall application security, there’s been a lot more focus on secrets management to protect, for example, credentials such as passwords from being hacked. The goal is to create a separate space of managing those credentials that resides outside of the application to make the environment more secure. […]

One of the major challenges that providers of IT infrastructure have been collectively working on is the development of a network standard for connecting NVMe-based servers and storage systems. That work has culminated in a NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) 1.0 standard. At the Flash Memory Summit 2017 conference this week, Solarflare, a provider of network […]

At the Flash Memory Summit 2017 conference this week, Kaminario announced that it will make available an NMVe-based Flash storage system in the first quarter of 2018. Josh Epstein, chief marketing officer for Kaminario, says the company expects the Kaminario K2.N array will be available at a 50 percent premium over current SAS-based storage systems. […]

One of the challenges any IT organization faces when managing endpoints is that end users turn those devices on and off whenever it suits them. To provide a level of persistence across the applications running on those endpoints, Absolute Software developed agent software designed to make it simpler to enable applications to self-heal. Absolute Software […]

For a long time now, networking vendors have been fond of generating maps of networking environments that made it easier to identify where networking equipment and devices attached to the network are physically located. Kaseya today took that concept a step further by allowing IT administrators to now click on those images to immediately begin […]

The relationship between professional and so-called citizen developers is often uneasy at best. Too often, citizen developers opt to employ higher-level development platforms that run out of head room as the application they created needs to scale. That usually results in professional developers having to rewrite the entire applications. Kony, Inc. today unveiled an update […]

At the Flash Memory Summit 2017 conference, Seagate today announced it is adding more NVMe and SAS solid-state drives (SSD) to its portfolio in addition to demonstrating a 64TB NVMe card configured with SSDs that can access data 13GB per second. Kent Smith, senior director of product marketing for Seagate, says the 2TB Nytro 5000 […]

As the amount of data that IT organizations are being asked to manage continues to grow in scale, there’s a bigger need than ever to be able to back up and archive data across local data centers and public clouds. To address that issue, Cohesity has released a version 5.0 update of its Cohesity Orion […]

Just about every storage vendor offers some form of a tool that makes it possible to move files from one tier of storage to another. The challenge IT organizations often now face is that they have multiple file systems running on-premises and in the cloud. Each of those file systems comes with its own suite […]