Mike Vizard

The rate of storage technology innovation that now regularly occurs presents IT organizations with a challenge at a time when the I/O characteristics of applications are more likely to significantly change over time than ever. Aiming to give IT organizations some flexibility in terms of addressing those changing requirements, Kaminario today unveiled a modular all-Flash […]

Ransomware has had a major impact on how IT organizations think about protecting data. Now Druva, a provider of data protection and management software delivered as a service, wants to make it a lot simpler for IT organizations to identify data that is being targeted by ransomware before things completely spin out of their control. […]

5 Reasons to Deploy VDI for Better IT Management Desktop virtualization has always been a nifty idea. But in terms of total cost of implementing and managing, those virtual desktop costs often proved prohibitive. In addition, end users were never especially enthusiastic about any approach to managing PCs that made it difficult for them to […]

The most costly time that most organizations spend usually occurs in a conference room. The collective salaries of those present on an hourly basis are usually considerable. For that reason alone, it makes sense to make sure that time is as optimally spent as possible. To enable that to happen, Intel has been making the […]

IT organizations today spend a lot of money on monitoring everything from infrastructure to applications. But truth be told, most organizations are a lot more interested in monitoring the business outcomes enabled by all those investments than the actual technology itself. With that larger goal in mind, Loom Systems today unveiled an analytics application for […]

There are really two distinct types of use cases for mobile computing. The most common involves providing basic connectivity to access, for example, email. The other involves the management of custom applications that require access to specific amounts of network bandwidth to insure a quality end-user experience. In recognition of that fact, Aerohive Networks this […]

There’s been a significant increase in the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks being launched simply because there is more IT processing power that can be easily commandeered being made available. Most recently, just about every website on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. was crippled by a DDoS attack that leveraged consumer […]

How to Evaluate Predictive Analytics for Your Business At a Machine Learning @Scale event today, Facebook revealed that it is now making use of artificial intelligence (AI) to identify photos on the social media network. While that may be of keen interest to marketers and people who spend time manually attaching tags to photos to […]

Last year, Cisco announced it was making use of agent software, machine learning algorithms and Big Data to apply advanced analytics to optimize IT operations in the form of a Tetration appliance. Today, Cisco extended that capability in a way that makes it possible to automatically segment data center infrastructure by application. Yogesh Kaushik, senior […]

Many IT organizations have invested in security information and event management (SIEM) platforms only to discover that they’ve essentially created a static database that logs security events. They can query that database when there’s an issue to correlate past and present attacks. But in terms of real actionable intelligence, many legacy SIEM platforms are limited. […]

IT organizations are now coping with more diversity in the data center than ever. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and clusters loaded with containers are now being deployed alongside existing legacy servers. The one thing they all need to share is the underlying physical network. Big Switch Networks today extended its software-defined networking (SDN) to include support […]

Juniper Networks, under the auspices of a Unite Cloud initiative, has been moving to centralize the management of remote offices and campus networks. Today, Juniper Networks announced it is now extending the reach of that effort into the data center. Scott Miles, senior director of cloud, enterprise and security portfolio marketing at Juniper, says Juniper […]