Mike Vizard

EMC this week, at what is likely to be the last EMC World conference, unveiled a bevy of offerings that include the Unity line of storage arrays aimed at the midmarket as well as an instance of its VxRack System that comes with OpenStack Neutrino Nodes for networking. EMC plans to bundle its own distribution […]

Ten Interesting Facts About Tape Backup There’s clearly a lot of excitement these days about the rise of Flash storage. However, the idea that Flash storage is going to replace magnetic storage entirely is an oversimplification of storage trends in the enterprise. Flash memory is roughly equivalent in pricing to high-end magnetic storage, but there […]

5 Defining Tech Trends that Will Shape Business Search as end users know it today is a fairly blunt instrument. When enough compute power is available, keywords provide a mechanism for returning search results that end users hunt and peck through in the hopes of finding what they need. Looking to apply a lot more […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading With the rise of the private cloud, a shift is under way in terms of how storage is managed and data is shared across enterprise applications. Historically, file and block storage systems were managed in isolation. Going forward, within the context of a private cloud, storage […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) this week turned its block storage systems into a unified storage platform by adding support for modules that make it possible for those systems to also function as network-attached storage (NAS) systems. By using field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), the storage vendor has been […]

5 Defining Tech Trends that Will Shape Business HP Inc. and Google today teamed up to make the case for replacing Windows in the office as part of the launch of a 13-in Chromebook manufactured by HP Inc. Based on Intel 6th Generation Core processors, the HP Chromebook13 is aimed at organizations inclined to rely […]

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality As the popularity of Apple systems and devices in the enterprise continues to rise, IT organizations that have been historically Windows centric are looking for ways to manage them. For most IT organizations, that means choosing between either extending the Windows management framework they have today […]

Study Shows that Hybrid Storage Plays a Crucial Role in Mitigating Virtualization Issues With Flash storage rapidly becoming the first best option for primary storage, competition among storage vendors in this space is now nothing short of fierce. Today, IBM fired the latest salvo in the form of three offerings aimed at the midmarket that […]

Amazing Growth in Data Requires Innovative New Solutions Looking to spur increased adoption of Node.js as the dominant form of JavaScript in the enterprise, The Node.js Foundation this week announced the release of Node.js 6, a version that is considerably faster and more secure than its predecessor. Mikeal Rogers, community manager of the Node.js Project, […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise As part of an effort to make it possible for applications to have more granular control on wide area network (WAN) connections, Riverbed Technology today unveiled a Riverbed SteelConnect platform managed via the cloud that unifies control of extended networks. Josh Dobies, senior director of product marketing for Riverbed, says […]

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 For as long as anyone can probably remember, the virtual private network (VPN) has been a staple of enterprise IT. Organizations now make use of VPNs to provide access to both internal and external cloud applications. The challenge is that, once access is granted, most organizations don’t have […]

5 Ways to Avoid Video Challenges with Specialty Storage One of the issues that most IT organizations have to contend with when trying to build a cloud is that most of the storage management associated with any given application workload still needs to be done manually. To allow IT organizations to avail themselves of a […]