Mike Vizard

At the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) Spring conference today, Pluribus Networks announced an Adaptive Cloud Fabric architecture that enables virtual networks to be extended across multiple data centers. Steve Shalita, vice president of marketing and business development for Pluribus Networks, says rather than simply limiting a virtual network to x86 servers located in a […]

Lenovo is enabling IT organizations in high-performance computing (HPC) to take advantage of all the financial benefits of commodity storage hardware in a pre-integrated system. Announced today at the Lenovo Accelerate Partner Forum, Scott Tease, executive director for HPC and artificial intelligence at Lenovo, says the Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale (DSS-G) […]

Looking to foster greater interoperability between endpoints and gateways across Internet of Things (IoT) environments, The Linux Foundation today launched an open source EdgeX Foundry project based on software developed by Dell Technologies. The announcement was made at the Hannover Messe 2017 conference, and Philip DesAutels, senior director of IoT for The Linux Foundation, says […]

The idea that there should be some unified approach to managing content makes a lot of sense from a conceptual perspective. But even in the age of the cloud, it’s proven challenging for most organizations to implement an enterprise content management (ECM) system. To address that issue, Xerox has now unfurled a cloud-based ECM service […]

Reuse of code has been a goal of just about every organization as far back as when the dominant programming languages were COBOL and Fortran. But fast forward several decades later and the amount of code being reused across multiple developers is still minimal. This week, MuleSoft took a small step toward encouraging the reuse […]

A high percentage of the unstructured data that most IT organizations are struggling to manage now comes in the form of video files. As more applications than ever employ some degree of video, IT organizations of all sizes are trying to cope with terabytes, sometimes even petabytes, of data. To make it simpler to cope […]

At a Check Point Experience (CPX) 2017 conference today, Check Point Software unveiled a unified Infinity Architecture that promises to enable IT security teams to be more responsive to threats while also reducing the total cost of IT security operations. Darrell Burkey, director of intrusion prevention system (IPS) Products for Check Point Software, says Infinity […]

Usage of application programming interfaces (APIs) to embed a variety of communications services into applications has become one of the hottest segments of the overall API economy. This week, TeleSign announced it plans to play a much bigger role in that space by opening its communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) to any developer capable of invoking a […]

As IT organizations increasingly make use of wireless networks to access corporate applications, many of them are finding managing all the access points and controllers on those networks to be a major challenge. To address that challenge, Ruckus Wireless, a unit of Brocade, has unveiled a set of physical and virtual appliances that make it […]

By now, just about everyone is familiar to one degree or another with some form of a conversational interface, such as Siri from Apple, Cortana from Microsoft, or Alexa from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Less clear is to what degree those conversational interfaces will replace traditional graphical user interfaces (GUI). Aiming to make it easier […]

While machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence have the power to transform entire industries, most people have a well-defined set of issues where they are looking for a little extra help to accomplish daily tasks more easily. With that issue in mind, Sisense is adding machine learning algorithms to analyze patterns within […]

Despite all the interest in a growing number of database platforms, most applications continue to run on relational databases. In fact, as SQL continues to evolve, it’s becoming possible to extend SQL to support technology such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) that is at the core of most document databases. Speaking this week at a […]