Mike Vizard

At the Dell EMC World 2017 conference this week, VMware signaled its intention to extend the reach of its management stack across Internet of Things (IoT) environments. The first offering in the IoT space that VMware will roll out later this year is VMware Pulse IoT Center, which combines VMware AirWatch device management software with […]

As part of an effort to incorporate conversational interfaces within its Spark collaboration application portfolio, Cisco today announced its intention to acquire MindMeld for $127 million in cash. MindMeld has been driving the development of conversation interfaces based on a natural language engine powered by machine learning algorithms. Jason Goecke, Cisco vice president and general […]

At the Dell EMC World 2017 conference this week, Virtustream, the cloud service provider arm of Dell Technologies, revealed it plans to make available an on-premises edition of its cloud platform that it will centrally manage on behalf of customers. Due out later this year, a local private cloud instance of the Virtustream cloud is […]

IBM today unveiled a variety of tools intended to make data scientists a lot more productive. An update to PowerAI deep learning software provides access to tools that make it simpler to train artificial intelligence (AI) models as well as integrate them with the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework. At the same time, IBM is […]

The race is on to consolidate as many security and networking services as possible within the branch office. Versa Networks today announced that it is expanding the scope of services that can be hosted on its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) platform to include wireless and Ethernet switching, anti-malware security software and high-speed Long Term […]

Dell Technologies is starting to deliver on the desktop some of the promised dividends of combining Dell and EMC into a single entity by combining elements of the VMware and Dell EMC portfolios into a single offering. At the Dell EMC World 2017 conference today, Dell EMC and VMware announced they are integrating VMware AirWatch […]

In the near future, software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) will employ machine learning algorithms to automatically route network branch traffic across the most appropriate connection available at any given moment in time. Silver Peak CEO David Hughes says IT organizations are already seeing the benefits of applying machine learning algorithms to wide area network traffic […]

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are not all that sophisticated. Thousands of devices are hijacked by a bot that in turn uses them to launch DNS requests that eventually bring a web site to its knees. To prevent that from happening, Corsa Technology today added a GigaFilter capability to its Red Armor network security […]

At the Dell EMC World 2017 conference today, Dell EMC moved to reduce the upfront costs associated with acquiring converged and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances that would be deployed in an on-premises IT environment to effectively zero. Via a new Cloud Flex for HCI program that is modeled on the way IT organizations currently acquire […]

Moving massive amounts of data around the enterprise in support of Big Data projects is one of the most painstaking tasks an IT organization can be asked to manage. Each step takes a fair amount of time because by and large IT staffs are working with lower-level protocols. Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) this week […]

Machine learning algorithms clearly afford a lot of opportunity to improve cybersecurity. CA Technologies is now putting that theory to the test in the form of a CA Risk Analytics Network that makes use of machine learning algorithms to identify fraud involving the use of not present credit card transactions. Credit card companies lose billions […]

Hybrid cloud computing is always going to be simpler when every data center involved is running the same operating environment. With that goal in mind, Dell EMC today announced Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack platform, an instance of the operating system Microsoft employs on its Azure cloud that can be run […]