Mike Vizard

Rather than requiring IT organizations to standardize on a specific software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), NTT Communications Corp. today unfurled a heterogeneous approach to delivering software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services. Ron Haigh, president of the Virtela arm of NTT, says via a NTT SD-WAN Service Portfolio managed by Virtela, IT organizations can not only […]

Education becomes more virtual with each passing day. The challenge is that it’s often difficult for instructors to gauge the real level of engagement being achieved. To provide more insight into that virtual education experience, Lenovo is employing facial recognition technology within a Lenovo AirClass virtual training software to provide instructors with scores about the […]

Not too long ago, wireless networking was viewed as being a distinctly different class of networking that stood apart from the rest of the wired networking environment. But as the number of wireless devices inside the enterprise began to proliferate, it became apparent that rather than being a separate secondary network, the wireless network has […]

As a general IT rule, the simpler something is to deploy and manage, the more adoption there is. The trouble with desktop virtualization over the years is that in addition to being costly, it’s never been simple to deploy and manage. dinCloud wants to change that equation via the launch of a cloud service that […]

Interest in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is running high because it allows IT organizations to combine the management of compute and storage in the same platform. Now Plexxi wants to extend that HCI concept to include the network. Plexxi this week unveiled updates to its Plexxi Control software-defined networking (SDN) and Plexxi Connect software that make […]

Salesforce made good today on its promise to make the sales staff a whole lot smarter. Via an update to its namesake customer relationship management (CRM) application delivered via the cloud, Salesforce is now making it possible for salespeople to directly engage the Einstein artificial intelligence (AI) platform Salesforce unveiled last year. Previously, sales staffs […]

The only people who like passwords less than the people who need to use and remember them are the people who need to manage them. In fact, a lot of valuable IT time is wasted on changing and verifying passwords. Because of that issue, developers in droves have shifted to using mobile phones to verify […]

At a Pure Accelerate 2017 conference this week, Pure Storage moved to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) by employing advanced machine learning algorithms to automate the management of storage, while at the same time expanding its storage system portfolio to support advanced artificial intelligence applications requiring access to massive amounts of data. Matt Kixmoeller, vice president […]

At a Minds + Machines Europe 2017 conference hosted this week by GE Digital, the ServiceMax arm of the world’s largest conglomerate announced that the field service management application it delivers as a cloud service is now integrated with the GE Predix analytics platform. Scheduled to be available this Fall, ServiceMax CEO David Yarnold says […]

Most people think of identity as something that belongs to a person, but when it comes to IT, the concept of an identity also needs to be extended out to things and services. IBM today unfurled an IBM Cloud Identity Connect service that IT organizations can employ to assign identities to things and services alongside […]

Now that IT organizations are becoming more adept at managing deployments of applications across multiple clouds, it’s only a matter of time before requests to integrate those applications increase. To facilitate that process, Talend today announced it has extended the Talend Data Fabric for integrating applications to include support for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud […]

At a combined DataWorks Summit/Hadoop Summit conference, Hortonworks today made available a streaming analytics capability with version 3.0 of Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF). In addition, Hortonworks announced that it will allow IT organizations to transfer software licenses between instances of its Hadoop distribution running on-premises and a public cloud. Jamie Engesser, vice president of product management […]