Mike Vizard

At a .NEXT 2017 conference today, Nutanix unveiled a cloud operating system based on its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software capable of unifying public and private clouds under a common hybrid cloud computing architecture. Sunil Potti, vice president of engineering for Nutanix, says Nutanix Calm, due out by the end of the year, extends the Nutanix […]

Most IT organizations today struggle with trying to keep up with who is connecting which device to an extended corporate network that is accessing some set of unknown applications. To provide some visibility into those events, ForeScout Technologies developed an agentless approach to provide IT organizations with visibility into and control over both distributed endpoints […]

In a few short years, the IT industry has moved from a paucity of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to an embarrassment of riches. The challenge IT organizations now face is finding a way to incorporate them all. To address that issue, Sinequa announced today it has integrated AI technologies from both Google and IBM into […]

When it comes to selling anything, being able to make a personal connection with a prospective customer is often the difference between making a sale or not. To make it simpler for salespeople to gain those insights, SugarCRM today unveiled SugarCRM Hint, a module within its namesake CRM application that salespeople can employ to search […]

At a Cisco Live! event today, ExtraHop, a provider of appliances that gather data about network traffic at wire speed, announced it has integrated its appliances with the Cisco Tetration Analytics application. Matt Cauthorn, vice president of systems engineering for ExtraHop, says the alliance makes it possible for Tetration, which is based on an instance […]

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is all the rage these days. But there are two primary means of achieving it that IT organizations need to consider. They can either acquire an HCI appliance or license software that turns existing servers or infrastructure acquired separately into an HCI appliance. To facilitate that latter approach, Red Hat has made […]

Aiming to put the focus of IT organizations and the industry as a whole squarely on data management, IBM today announced a series of data governance initiatives that includes the formation of an Open Data Governance Consortium in collaboration with Hortonworks dedicated to advancing an Atlas open source data governance framework for Hadoop. In all, […]

There’s been a lot of ongoing debate over the degree to which traditional data warehouses are still relevant. Organizations on the one hand still need to have a central repository to analyze data, but for many organizations that means creating a data lake based on a platform such as Hadoop. Snowflake Computing, a provider of […]

At a Tech World Transform event this week, Lenovo announced it has revamped its data center portfolio along two primary lines following the introduction of 14 additional servers supported by additional storage systems and switches. Kamran Amini, executive director for the server and storage business units at Lenovo, says Lenovo will now offer two classes […]

After the better part of a decade trying to centralize as much computing as possible by pushing applications into the cloud, the next big thing will be pushing applications out to the edge of the network to be closer to the point where they are consumed. Vapor IO, a provider of a platform for running […]

In a move that borrows a page from the server virtualization playbook, Juniper Networks today unveiled a node-slicing capability to its router software that makes it possible for IT organizations to virtualize network services. Donyel Jones-Williams, director of service provider portfolio marketing for Juniper Networks, says that as part of a Cloud-Grade Networking portfolio of […]

As part of an effort to expand the range of managed cloud services it offers, MongoDB today unfurled MongoDB Stitch, a backend-as-a-service (BaaS) intended to make it simpler to build applications using its namesake document database. Unfurled at a MongoDB World 2017 conference, Mat Keep, director of product and market analysis for MongoDB, says MongoDB […]