Mike Vizard

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know Looking to accelerate the arrival of a new age of “serverless computing” in the cloud, Fugue today unveiled a management framework designed from the ground up to unify the management of widely distributed IT infrastructure resources. Fugue CEO Josh Stella says the company’s namesake management platform is […]

5 Steps to Rationalize Your Application Portfolios One of the more profound developments with enterprise IT as of late has been the rise of in-memory data grids. As a technology, in-memory data grids have been around for a while. But as the cost of memory has gone down, the feasibility of deploying in-memory data grids […]

Securing AD for Hybrid Cloud Environments Aiming to advance the state of hybrid cloud computing across heterogeneous IT environments, HotLink today unveiled a cloud platform designed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) appear to be a natural extension of a VMware environment running on premise. HotLink CEO Lynn LeBlanc says that with the debut of […]

10 Trends Making Enterprise App Stores Work When it comes to digital business transformation, many organizations have grand ambitions. But on a practical level, most of them struggle with simply replacing a paper-based process with a mobile application. To make that simpler, Canvas created a namesake workflow application hosted in the cloud that is designed […]

Flash Storage Architecture: What’s Available and Why It Matters At the Flash Memory Summit 2016 conference today, E8 Storage unveiled a storage array built using solid-state drives (SSDs) based on a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Express interface that when attached to a high-speed network provides access to shared storage at speeds that are comparable to a […]

5 Hidden Costs of Cloud Backup Enterprises have suffered from a lack of visibility into how their cloud services are being utilized and their impact on monthly costs. This week, Spiceworks unfurled a Cloud Cost Monitor tool that provides that visibility for free. Spiceworks has a long history of providing IT management tools for free […]

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality When it comes to mobile computing, just about every IT organization realizes that managing the device is only the beginning. Each device is typically running a series of applications that all need to be regularly updated. JAMF Software, as part of an effort to address these […]

Five CRM Initiatives that Can Help You Build Better Customer Relations For salespeople, the customer relationship management (CRM) software they use every day is akin to a command center. Most of the interactions they have with customers revolve around the data residing in that application. To make it simpler for salespeople to have those conversations […]

How to Monitor Networks While On Vacation One of the more painstaking tasks IT organizations routinely undertake is trying to move the location of a specific endpoint. Physically moving the device is one thing. Getting everything attached to the network to recognize where that device has been moved is often another matter altogether. To remove […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know While the use of public cloud computing has expanded, incorporating those resources within the larger context of an IT strategy remains a challenge. Everything from making sure a particular application workload is well suited to run on a particular cloud instance to finding ways to make existing […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges It’s only when organizations find ways to efficiently share data that all the investments in IT really begin to pay off. Unfortunately, the way organizations share data remains fairly cumbersome. Aiming to change that, Attic Labs, fresh off of raising $8.1 million, revealed today that it is working on […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise While it’s pretty clear that the Internet of Things (IoT) is a major expansion of the known IT universe, building and then managing those IoT projects at scale is not an easy endeavor. To make it easier to deploy an IoT project, Particle created a Particle platform […]