Mike Vizard

Organizations of all sizes are rapidly coming to the realization that they need a more sophisticated approach to how they manage data. Not only is there more data than ever to be managed, but various regulatory agencies around the world are holding organizations more accountable for how that data is employed. To address that challenge, […]

Over the years, storage administrators that can correctly allocate the right amount of resources to ensure specific levels of application performance are maintained have been worth their weight in gold. But as machine learning algorithms evolve, the intelligence required to maintain those levels of performance can now be more precisely applied via software. Primary Data […]

Moving virtual machines around and between data centers is one thing. Migrating workloads around and between data centers is quite another challenge altogether. CloudVelox today announced an update to a One Hybrid Cloud suite of tools for migrating workloads running on top of VMware that makes it simpler to move workloads between local data centers […]

Oracle as part of a major upgrade to the Oracle Cloud Applications portfolio announced today it is now turning its attention to supply chain management (SCM). Liam Nolan, vice president of cloud applications development for ERP at Oracle, says Oracle SCM Cloud Release 13 adds over 200 features to a suite of existing SCM applications […]

To one degree or another, everyone is a project manager. If there’s something that needs to be accomplished by a certain date, it’s by definition a project. The more people involved in accomplishing that task, the more complicated it becomes. To make it simpler to engage those people over the lifecycle of a project, Clarizen […]

As a step toward making data deduplication and compression software universally available as open source software, Red Hat this week announced it has acquired Permabit. Gunnar Hellekson, senior director of product management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Virtualization, says that the data duplication and compression software developed by Permabit will be […]

Following its acquisition of Xirrus earlier this year, Riverbed Technology today unveiled the first wireless access point to be added to the Riverbed product portfolio. Bruce Miller, vice president of product marketing for Riverbed, says the Riverbed Xirrus Wave 2 AP Model XD2-230 provides 3.9 Gbps of bandwidth that should enable IT organizations to not […]

Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) have significantly transformed how a wide range of network and security services are delivered to the branch office. They have also significantly altered who is being asked to deliver those services, thanks to the rise of managed service providers (MSPs) leveraging SD-WAN platforms to deliver a comprehensive suite of tightly […]

Given the simple fact that software is comprised of bits, the lines between where one application begins and another one ends are somewhat arbitrary. As part of a deliberate effort to drive a wave of consolidations across both the personal and business applications categories, Zoho is now making available a Zoho One suite of software-as-a-services […]

Many organizations have been assessing the level of investment they need to make in data science and various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to advance their digital business initiatives. A new update to the Adobe Marketing Cloud delivered this week that bakes these technologies into an Adobe Target personalization engine suggests that most organizations […]

Mitel today announced an acquisition of ShoreTel valued at $430 million that signals a shift in how communications and collaboration software is being consumed in the enterprise. Mitel CEO Rich McBee says that while unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) platforms have gained traction in recent years with smaller companies, it’s only been in the last year that […]

One of the major challenges associated with rolling out any new product or service is putting in place the systems needed to support it. Without those systems in place, chances are high the customer consuming those services or buying that product is going to have a sub-optimal experience. To make it simpler to marshal those […]