Mike Vizard

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, as part of an effort to become more competitive in the red hot hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market, announced this week that it is acquiring SimpliVity for $650 million in cash. SimpliVity first emerged as a provider of HCI software that could be deployed on any system. It then made available its own hardware […]

4 Ways IT Can Better Align Itself to Fulfill Business Needs At the NRF 2017 conference this week, Intel demonstrated how serious it is about changing processes across the retail sector by unveiling a standard platform for deploying retail applications and demonstrating how a robot can be employed to stock products on shelves that are […]

At an Oracle CloudWorld event today, Oracle announced that it will make available an instance of its database service on bare-metal servers in addition to new options for provisioning virtual machines and load balancing services. At the same time, Oracle announced that it will add three additional regions to Oracle Cloud, to bring the total […]

How to Keep Productivity High When Working from Home As IT organizations in increasingly larger numbers make the shift to Windows 10, many of them are rediscovering the trials and tribulations of having to configure large number of PCs and tablets at the same time. Aiming to automate as much of that process as possible, […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World Most organizations know today that there is some business value to be derived from investing in an Internet of Things (IoT) project. The challenge is that not many of them have a lot of IoT expertise on hand. That makes investing in a IoT project […]

Data Lakes: 8 Enterprise Data Management Requirements As organizations of all sizes start to amass more data than ever in the hopes of making better business decisions faster, the quality of that data becomes increasingly critical. To help ensure that data quality, Talend this week added data preparation tools to its integration platform that promise […]

The Rise of Integrated IT Infrastructure Systems: Top Enterprise Use Cases When it comes to software-defined networks (SDNs), the three clear choices most IT organizations are evaluating are commercial offerings from Cisco and VMware against several open source alternatives. Today, Mirantis threw its weight behind one of those open source options by announcing it now […]

Turning Zero-Day into D-Day for Cybersecurity Threats At the core of most cybersecurity attacks is an attempt to take control of a system for a purpose other than what was originally intended. With that fundamental premise in mind, Nyotron developed a series of agents that immediately identify any time an endpoint is hijacked for anything […]

5 DDoS Myths Debunked In the wake of a series of high-profile distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that compromised various types of consumer devices and crippled popular websites, the awareness of the security threat these devices potentially represent is now a lot higher. But determining which Internet of Things (IoT) devices on a corporate […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Storage vendors for some time have been requiring IT organizations to commit to either a scale-up or scale-out approach to data storage, without truly understanding the eventual characteristics of a specific set of application workloads. After all, the I/O requirements of an application workload can change […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World As the line between device and application management continues to blur, IT organizations are looking for more holistic approaches to managing a diverse number of endpoints. To help achieve that goal, VMware today announced an alliance with Adaptiva that promises to make it simpler to […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 For some time now, DataGravity has been making the case for a “data-aware” approach to managing storage that provides all the governance, data protection and search tools an IT organization requires, baked into a physical appliance. Starting today, DataGravity is making that capability available as a virtual appliance […]