Mike Vizard

Aiming to make it a lot simpler for more organizations to consume a portfolio of products that have considerably expanded over the past several years, Cisco today announced it is expanding the number of products covered under its enterprise licensing agreements in the expectation that such contracts will have more broad appeal. Mark Hill, vice […]

As part of an effort to simplify IT security operations, IBM and Cisco today announced an initiative under which they will pre-integrate their respective cybersecurity products portfolios. Dov Yoran, senior director of strategy and business development for the Cisco Security Business Group, says the goal is to bi-directionally share security intelligence gathering by both companies […]

Most IT organizations are a long way from deploying applications based on blockchain technologies into a production environment. But many of them are encouraging developers to build prototypes of applications that employ distributed ledgers based on blockchain technologies. To facilitate those efforts, block.one announced it is developing an open source instance of what it describes […]

VMware has already let it be known that it intends to extend the reach of its virtualization technologies all the way out to the Internet of Things (IoT) edge. Now is has enlisted Samsung to help further that agenda. Mimi Spier, vice president of IoT for VMware, says the two companies have agreed to collaboratively […]

Most of the things connected to the internet are relatively defenseless because there’s not much processing power left over to run anything more than the software used to pass data back to an internet of Things (IoT) gateway. Recognizing that simple fact, Cisco this week, at an Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum conference, announced […]

One of the more frustrating aspects of any Big Data project is the amount of time and effort spent on just getting the software infrastructure required to support it up and running. Aiming to reduce that complexity, Cloudera this week at the Strata Data 2017 Conference launched a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for Big Data applications […]

Most new applications being developed these days are loosely classified as systems of engagement designed to improve a customer or employee experience. After all, most organizations already have some form of system of record in place in the form of, for example, an ERP application. Couchbase at a Couchbase Connect event this week announced a […]

Twilio announced today at a Twilio SIGNALS 2017 conference that it will become one of the first providers of communications software to take advantage of a serverless computing framework that promises to eliminate the need to configure Web infrastructure in support of Twilio communications software. In addition, Twilio announced Twilio Proxy, a new set of […]

The biggest objection when it comes to public cloud computing is security. Many organizations are still simply not comfortable hosting workloads on IT infrastructure they don’t own, especially if that workload involves anything they view as strategic intellectual property. Looking to help ease those fears, Barracuda Networks today announced it is making available a free […]

As the Flash memory era of storage continues to progress, it’s starting to become apparent that rather than fewer storage systems, there will be more tiers and classes of storage than ever. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today unveiled a bevy of updates to its Flash storage portfolio that span everything from the midmarket to the enterprise. […]

LinkedIn for the past year has been making a case for a proposed Open19 standard for servers and racks that promised to make it simpler to manage and upgrade IT infrastructure. Now, LinkedIn, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Vapor IO, Flex and GE Digital, has announced the formation of the Open 19 Foundation. Open19 […]

Two things that keep IT managers up at night these days are security and figuring out how to manage IT at scale. Red Hat has previewed an upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that promises to address both issues. Steve Almy, principal product manager for RHEL, says the beta version of RHEL 7.4 […]