Mike Vizard

Rethinking Application Performance in the Digital Business Era As hyperconverged platforms from Nutanix continue to grow in popularity, there’s naturally now a race among IT vendors to figure out how best to manage them. While Nutanix has a suite of its own management tools, many IT organizations are looking for ways to extend their existing […]

Top 5 Places Your Enterprise Data Is at Risk One of the things that holds back broader adoption of containers is security. Many IT organizations are inclined to use containers when developing applications, but most don’t have any real way to secure those containers in a production environment. To address that issue, Aqua Security this […]

6 Devices Poised to Disrupt Your Network in 2016 While it may be tempting to dismiss 3D printing as just another consumer fad, the fact is that 3D printers are already transforming how products are developed and made. It’s now fairly common for a prototype of a product to be built using a 3D printer. […]

2016 Data Storage Trends: DevOps, Flash and Hybrid Cloud The cost per gigabyte of both Flash and magnetic storage has never been lower. Dell today released an upgrade to the Dell Storage Center Operating System (SCOS) that uses both compression and data deduplication to drive down the effective cost of Flash storage to less than […]

Rethinking Application Performance in the Digital Business Era In a shift that has the potential to turn the way IT organizations think about how IT infrastructure is deployed in the data center, DriveScale today unveiled a platform that plugs storage devices directly into an Ethernet switch. The solution is designed around commodity hardware, and DriveScale […]

10 Steps to Smarter IT Ticket Management At the ServiceNow Knowledge 2016 conference today, ServiceNow unfurled a customer support application built from the ground up with collaboration in mind, while at the same time revealing that its cloud management suite of IT tools also supports the Microsoft Azure cloud. Dave Wright, chief strategy officer for […]

5 Security Steps to Protect Users from Ransomware While thin clients still represent a small portion of the number of endpoints deployed by IT organizations, Dell is betting that an increase in IT security breaches involving, for example, ransomware, is about to drive up interest. To bolster thin client security even further, Dell today added […]

2016 Software Trends: The Evolution of Enterprise Software At the Sapphire NOW 2016 conference today, SAP revealed that it has broadened its alliance with Microsoft as well as added new hybrid data management services and graph database capabilities to the SAP in-memory computing platform. But perhaps more importantly, SAP also made it clear today that […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges With many organizations struggling to incorporate various forms of media into their storage environments, it’s sometimes instructive to see how Web-scale companies went about solving the problem. Starting today, LinkedIn not only will to share how it built a distributed object storage optimized to handle media; it is now […]

5 Security Steps to Protect Users from Ransomware By now, most organizations are at least familiar with the concept of “ransomware”: cybercriminals using social engineering to fool unsuspecting end users into downloading malware that winds up encrypting all of their data and then demanding a ransom in return for the keys needed to de-encrypt that […]

Data Lakes: 8 Enterprise Data Management Requirements At the MarkLogic World 2016 User conference this week, MarkLogic previewed an update to its core database that makes it possible to semantically define specific sets of data within the database that can then be logically invoked by an application programming interface (API). Joe Pasqua, executive vice president […]

5 Ways Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Lowers CapEx and OpEx Looking to make it simpler to deploy multiple software-defined networks (SDNs) across a common fabric of routers and switches, Corsa Technology today unveiled a programmable platform that can support throughput rates of up to 2.4 terabits. Corsa Technology CEO Bruce Gregory says the Corsa DP2000 […]