Mike Vizard

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization Any repetitive IT task that requires IT organizations to detect patterns within a massive amount of data is now generally subject to being automated. With that in mind, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been applying Big Data analytics to multiple forms of data protection. The launch […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center It’s still a significant challenge to connect multiple networks, because any configuration change in one environment needs to be reflected across all the other networks. The more networks that become connected, the more that complexity exponentially increases. At the Open Network User Group (ONUG) Fall 2016 […]

5 Criteria for Selecting the Best Enterprise Collaboration Tool As part of a plan to make it simpler to hold both ad-hoc and more structured meetings using the Cisco Spark collaboration platform, Cisco announced this week that it has acquired Heroik Labs to gain access to a set of Worklife meeting tools. Jens Meggers, senior […]

8 Uses of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for the Enterprise Dell, a unit of Dell Technologies, is quietly working on integrating virtual reality with the Microsoft Skype for Business video conferencing cloud service. At the Dell EMC World 2016 conference this week, Jeff Clarke, vice chairman of operations and president for Client Solutions for […]

5 VM Routing Mistakes Made in Private Clouds By all accounts, building a private cloud using OpenStack is not for the faint of heart. There are a lot of components in various stages of maturity that IT organizations have to deploy, test and validate. Because of that issue, most of the organizations that do deploy […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World At a Dell EMC World 2016 conference today, Dell EMC launched a slew of initiatives intended to drive home the fact that PowerEdge servers are now at the center of the Dell EMC universe. Dell EMC announced that PowerEdge servers will now be the foundational […]

Building High-Growth IT: 5 Things to Know Now As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of monitoring tools an IT organization needs to employ, Riverbed Technology today unveiled a new version of its SteelCentral platform that adds enhanced end-user experience management capabilities. While Riverbed Technology will continue to offer various monitoring tools […]

9 Critical Questions to Ask Your IT Service Provider At the VMworld Europe 2016 conference today, VMware outlined what amounts to a dual strategy that employs two core platforms to expand its appeal to developers and IT operations teams alike. New features in VMware vSphere 6.5 include a version of VMware vCenter Server that enables […]

5 Criteria for Selecting the Best Enterprise Collaboration Tool Most developers and IT professionals are for the most part making an educated guess when it comes to truly understanding how end users really interact with any given application. To provide better insight into those interactions, Worksoft this week announced that is has developed a tool […]

Study Shows that Hybrid Storage Plays a Crucial Role in Mitigating Virtualization Issues Hybrid cloud computing is a lot harder than it should be, mainly because cloud service providers (CSPs) and enterprise IT organizations are rarely standardized on the same virtual machine. The end result is that any time an organization wants to move data […]

Data Lakes: 8 Enterprise Data Management Requirements As usage of Big Data with platforms such as Hadoop and Apache Spark becomes more mainstream, a clarification of the separation of duties between IT organizations and data scientists needs to emerge. IT operations teams should exert more control over data preparation, which in turn will free up […]

Data-Centric Approach Starves Data-Hungry Cybercriminals Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a major challenge because the entities that launch these attacks have access to more processing power than before. Using malware to infect thousands of endpoints, cybercriminals can launch more crippling DDoS attacks than ever. To help combat that threat, A10 Networks this […]