Mike Vizard

The management of servers has become more challenging because more workloads than ever are trying to access a common pool of infrastructure resources. To make it simpler to dynamically allocate infrastructure resources across multiple workloads, TidalScale today unveiled a management framework that allows IT organizations to right-size data center resources to match the specific requirement […]

Over the years, the processes associated with protecting data became disjointed as vendors tried to monetize various add-on modules for a core backup and recovery application. Since then, vendors have begun to rationalize those offerings in the name of simplifying the data protection process. The latest vendor moving down that path via an update to […]

A new class of z14 Series mainframes unveiled today by IBM delivers three times as much horsepower that can be employed to encrypt every piece of data running on it. While IBM has always touted the encryption capabilities of the mainframe, Mike Desens, IBM vice president of offering management for z Systems and LinuxONE, says […]

As the number of high-speed processors that can be packed into a server continues to increase, many IT organizations are about to confront some significant I/O challenges. Each of those processors is capable of hosting large numbers of virtual machines and containers trying to access a common pool of block, file and object storage resources. […]

Any IT organization that manages a web site is involved in a daily battle with bots. Frequently employed to launch everything from cyberattacks to artificially trying to constrain access to inventory, bots have become a plague on IT. In recent years, many IT organizations have been able to defend themselves against these types of attacks […]

Fresh off raising another $36 million in capital, HyTrust, a provider of workload security tools, announced it has acquired DataGravity to gain access to data classification tools for an undisclosed amount of money. HyTrust President Eric Chiu says as the amount of data that organizations are being asked to secure increases, there’s a need to […]

For some time now, Salesforce has been making a push into adjacent areas to customer relationship management (CRM) such as field service. Salesforce this week is now making good on a promise to apply the Einstein artificial intelligence (AI) technology it has developed to its field service application. Mark Bloom, senior director for strategy and […]

A major refresh of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) unveiled today relies on much higher levels of embedded IT automation to make it possible to manage denser unified compute platforms at scale. Todd Brannon, director of product marketing for Cisco, says the M5 iteration of the Cisco UCS makes use of the latest Intel […]

Dell EMC fulfilled a promise made earlier this year by announcing today it is making available the 14th Generation of the Dell EMC PowerEdge servers based on the Intel Xeon Scalable processor series. Brian Payne, senior product planning manager for the Dell PowerEdge Server Portfolio, says the availability of Intel Xeon Scalable processors should significantly […]

At the Microsoft Inspire 2017 conference today, Quest Software unfurled a management platform designed to specifically manage and secure Microsoft Office 365 applications and instances of the Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Michael Tweddle, president and general manager of the Quest Microsoft Platform Management business, says the first release of Quest On Demand will […]

Microsoft today at a Microsoft Inspire 2017 conference made good on a promise to deliver a local instance of the Azure cloud operating environment. Julia White, corporate vice president for Azure marketing and security services, says Microsoft views Azure Stack as a highly differentiated offering that advances the state of hybrid cloud computing. In fact, […]

Recognizing that personal productivity applications, the operating systems they run on, and the tools needed to secure them are all tightly linked, Microsoft today announced it is combining Office 365, Windows 10 and its security technologies into a single unified Microsoft 365 offering. Speaking at a Microsoft Inspire 2017 conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told […]