Mike Vizard

Selecting a Cloud Service: 5 Questions to Ask Prospective Providers Aiming to make it simpler for IT organizations to manage the entire data center via a single pane of glass, Dell EMC and VMware have collaborated to more tightly integrate a VMware Cloud Foundation suite of software with VxRack systems from Dell EMC that are […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 Software-defined networking (SDN) is generally a means to simplify the management of networks in the data center. But in the case of Big Switch Networks, it’s also a platform for delivering an IT monitoring application. Today, Big Switch Networks announced that it is extending that IT monitoring capability […]

5 Trends Impacting the Future of Machine Data Intelligence The ability to search unstructured data has been around for quite some time. Now, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it has infused the HPE IDOL data analytic engine used to conduct those searches with natural language capabilities. Jeff Veis, vice president of marketing for Big Data […]

5 Steps for Proactive Cyber Risk Management Microsegmentation has emerged as one of the best IT security strategies IT organizations can employ because it logically isolates IT resources in a way that make it more challenging for cybercriminals to gain unilateral access to data once they bypass a firewall. Unisys today unveiled a Unisys Stealth […]

How to Use the Cloud to Become a High-Velocity Business Application delivery controllers (ADC), also known as load balancers, have been around in one form or another for some time now. The choice IT organizations have usually had to make is to decide whether to deploy an ADC locally or in the cloud. A10 Networks […]

Top 5 Tips for Building a Fail-Safe Network Software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) have been gaining in popularity as an alternative to traditional routers because they better enable IT organizations to route traffic generated by branch offices without having to backhaul all the traffic back through a corporate data center. The challenge is that somebody […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance One of the primary reasons most IT organizations don’t do a great job managing identities across the enterprise is because it’s hard to implement and maintain identity management software. One of the first actions of the newly independent Quest Software is to reach back to its former Dell […]

How Developers Balance Speed and Quality Akana, one of the last remaining dedicated providers of an API management platform, this week was acquired by Rogue Wave Software as part of an effort to make it simpler to manage application programming interfaces (APIs) inside and out of the cloud. Christine Bottagaro, chief marketing officer for Rogue […]

Building High-Growth IT: 5 Things to Know Now As enterprise continues to evolve, it’s become obvious that most IT organizations are going to wind up supporting multiple types of workloads running on bare-metal servers, virtual machines and containers such as Docker. At an HPE Discover conference this week, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) added a programmable Synergy […]

How to Use the Cloud to Become a High-Velocity Business If IT organizations are going to all the trouble and expense associated with backing up data, Veritas Technologies is making a case for being able to leverage that effort in multiple ways. With the launch of NetBackup 8.0 today, Veritas is adding support for integrated […]

7 Ways the Internet of Things Will Impact ITSM Aruba, a unit of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), at a HPE Discover conference today moved to secure the networks that tie together Internet of Things (IoT) environments. A new Aruba ClearPass Universal Profiler automatically discovers and fingerprints all IP-enabled managed, unmanaged and IoT devices on both wired […]

5 Steps to Wrangle Uncontrolled Data Flow At an AWS re:invent conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) significantly extended its data management and serverless computing ambitions in a way that should ultimately help IT organizations develop more advanced applications that make use of artificial intelligence (AI). In terms of providing the most immediate disruption, AWS […]