Mike Vizard

Rethinking Application Performance in the Digital Business Era Converged and hyperconverged systems are clearly all the rage these days inside the data center. But many IT organizations don’t want to give up their investments in racks to take advantage of systems that unify the management of compute and storage, while others prefer to deploy a […]

5 Steps to Wrangle Uncontrolled Data Flow The dirty little secret about Big Data projects is the actual length of time it takes to put one into production. When many organizations allocate six figures to hire a data scientist, they generally fail to take into account that most of them will spend the better part […]

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization One of the less appreciated aspects of advances in machine learning algorithms is how much they depend on the raw processing horsepower that has increased in the past few years by several orders of magnitude. While many developers are now using these algorithms to build advanced applications, […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know When it comes to hyperconverged infrastructure these days, there’s no shortage of options. But when it comes to flexibility many of those options impose a broad range of constraints on IT organizations, ranging from how they can be configured to the performance of the applications that […]

Selecting a Cloud Service: 5 Questions to Ask Prospective Providers For most companies of a certain size it almost always makes more economic sense for them to own their own IT infrastructure. For organizations such as Samsung that are trying to build a massive application ecosystem around a wide variety of devices, it’s almost essential. […]

Turning Zero-Day into D-Day for Cybersecurity Threats Hackers have become especially adept at evading the IT security technologies and processes that organizations put into place. This week, however, Brocade revealed at a Federal Forum 2016 conference that it is working with Harris Corp. to help change that. Brocade CTO Ken Cheng says Harris has developed […]

The 5 Best Methods for Drawing Insight out of Machine Data Cisco has announced it is combing machine-based learning algorithms, analytics and sensors to provide insights into data center operations in real time. Ishmael Limkakeng, vice president of marketing for Cisco Systems, says the product they’ve dubbed Cisco Tetration Analytics provides an unprecedented amount of […]

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization While there’s a general consensus that the only way to scale IT in a way that remains agile is to embrace IT automation, the amount of progress being made in this area by most IT organizations has been relatively slow. By some estimates, only 10 to 20 […]

Key Principles to Web-Scaling a Network In an IT world where more distributed applications than ever are sharing resources, the ability to prioritize what packets get processed when is rapidly becoming a critical requirement. To address that issue Barefoot Networks today unveiled a programmable network switch scheduled to be generally available next year. Ed Doe, […]

Turning Zero-Day into D-Day for Cybersecurity Threats Not everyone appreciates the fact that not all intelligence is equally relevant or, for that matter, actionable. Much these days has been made about security intelligence, but all too often what is provided is data relating to a potential security breach that lacks any context. To solve that […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management One of the paradoxes of storage management is that while the sheer volume of data that needs to be managed continues to grow, utilization rates of traditional magnetic storage systems have never been that high. One of the reasons for this is that virtual machines lay claim to […]

How to Protect Your Organization from Ransomware As part of an effort to bolster security around all things relating to virtualization, VMware announced today it has partnered with Tanium to simplify management of endpoint security within a VMware environment and revealed it has acquired Arkin Net to better secure software-defined data centers (SDDC). VMware also […]