Mike Vizard

As part of an effort to transform hyperconvergence platforms into a foundation for building private clouds, Nutanix today announced it has acquired both Calm.io and PernixData. Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey says now that the company has established itself as a pioneer of hyperconvergence, the next logical step is to help further drive the rise of […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know At the VMworld 2016 conference today, VMware laid claim to the management of cloud computing in all its forms. With the unveiling of a preview of a VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture, VMware today made it clear that it plans to extend its current dominance of virtual IT environments […]

Top 6 Trends that Impact Your Security Posture One of those dirty little compliance secrets is that whenever a business executive or government employee whips out a laptop in a public space, they more often than not are looking at sensitive data. Because of the way laptop screens are designed, anyone sitting or standing to […]

When it comes to data protection, the task has arguably never been more complicated. Not only are there more data sources needing to be backed up, the rise of the public cloud means that data is also more distributed than ever. Aiming to address that issue, EMC made a commitment today to simplifying the management […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center When it comes to data storage, there is always one basic concern. No matter how much data has to be accessed, the decision concerning what storage platform to use usually comes down to how fast that data needs to be accessed. Increasingly, large amounts of data […]

Top 6 Trends that Impact Your Security Posture As the sophistication of the cyberattacks by both criminals and nation states increases, the need to secure communications is becoming a much higher priority for small and large organizations alike. The trouble is that network links between any given end point and a data center are all […]

Building High-Growth IT: 5 Things to Know Now In a relatively short period of time, graphics processing units (GPUs) have gone from being applicable to only a specialized set of use cases to increasingly becoming a general-purpose processor. To further that growth, NVIDIA announced that a recently unveiled Tesla M10 GPU is now available for […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center Once an IT organization makes a commitment to embrace object-based storage, it usually winds up having to deploy a bevy of connectors and gateways to make that storage accessible to legacy applications. Today, Caringo announced that it has developed a file protocol converter that makes all […]

Five Ways to Address Your Data Management Issues There’s a fierce debate these days over just how and where to deploy Flash storage. Many IT organizations have opted to plug Flash storage directly into a server where it can typically only be accessed by a limited number of applications running on that system. Other IT […]

As part of an effort to increase the amount of mainframe database expertise it can put at the disposal of IT organizations, Syncsort today announced it has acquired Cogito. Syncsort CEO Josh Rogers says that the provider of extract, transform and load (ETL) tools is seeing a spike in demand for mainframe data integration expertise […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise While there are a lot of good reasons to adopt software-defined networks (SDNs), one of the least appreciated perhaps is IT security. To make it even easier to secure an SDN environment, PLUMgrid Networks today delivered, via an upgrade to the PLUMgrid Open Networking Suite (ONS), a CloudSecure module that […]

2016 Trends: Preparing the Network for Web-Scale Demands Keeping track of what’s occurring in any given IT environment has never been more challenging. On one hand, there is a wide array of cloud applications that need to be monitored. On the other are a number of endpoints that may not even belong to the organization. […]