Mike Vizard

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Following on the heels of the completion of the merger of Dell and EMC, the combined new entity this week upgraded the portfolio of storage platforms originally developed by EMC. Starting with the launch of a Dell EMC VMAX 250F array aimed at the top end […]

Study Shows that Hybrid Storage Plays a Crucial Role in Mitigating Virtualization Issues There’s a world of difference between how most developers approach cloud computing and what an IT operations team working inside the average enterprise expects. Most developers just want access to IT infrastructure resources as quickly as possible. IT operations teams want to […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center At the Atlassian Summit 2016 conference today, Atlassian announced that it’s moving to reduce the amount of friction IT operations teams experience when moving between various tools and computing platforms. Starting with updates to a Bitbucket hosting service for managing software development projects, Atlassian announced it […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Serverless computing is a new form of cloud computing that essentially allows developers to assume that the IT infrastructure resources available to them are infinite. Rather than having to wait for additional capacity to come online, serverless computing makes use of an event-driven architecture to dynamically […]

2016 Software Trends: The Evolution of Enterprise Software When it comes to applications these days, most IT organizations would prefer as much flexibility as possible. In an ideal world, they should be able to consume a packaged application that they could deploy on premise or in the cloud, as they see fit. Of course, in […]

Flash Storage Architecture: What’s Available and Why It Matters As part of an effort to make its storage and compute platforms accessible to a broader number of IT generalists, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) today announced an update to its portfolio that employs much higher levels of automation. Paula Phipps, senior manager for software marketing at […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading Arguably the most difficult thing about building a private cloud is mastering the inherent data storage challenges involved. Not only does a private cloud usually necessitate adopting object-based storage, making sure that I/O contention is kept to a minimum as multiple applications running on the private […]

5 Essential Incident Response Checklists Military service has been described as consisting of long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. The hope is that training will kick in at crucial moments to enable personnel to perform the right action at the right time in the face of all adversity. Looking to make […]

Data Lakes: 8 Enterprise Data Management Requirements When it comes to data management, there are two major challenges. The first is figuring out a way to cope with massive amounts of Big Data that are now routinely being sourced. The second is keeping track of where the organization’s most sensitive data is actually being stored. […]

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs Digital business transformation at its core is dependent on the number of well-defined application programming interfaces (APIs) an organization can publish. Unfortunately, the development of those APIs has been dependent on the availability of developers to actually create them. CA Technologies, with the launch of CA […]

9 Critical Questions to Ask Your IT Service Provider As graphical processing units (GPUs) become more accessible and affordable both inside and out, many organizations are going to reconsider their database options for certain classes of analytics workloads. That’s the proposition that Kinetica is betting on, following the launch of a 6.0 version of its […]

5 Steps to Protect Executives from a Whale-Phishing Attack Recognizing that midmarket IT organizations are backing up more data than ever at a more frequent rate, Arcserve today announced it has revamped its line of data protection appliances. Christophe Bertrand, vice president of product marketing for Arcserve, says the second generation of the Arcserve Unified […]