Mike Vizard

As part of an effort to make it simpler for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) to modernize their IT infrastructure environments, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) in partnership with Zynstra today unveiled an HPE Proliant Easy Connect Managed Hybrid converged appliance that can be remotely administered by HPE or its IT services partners via the cloud. McLeod Glass, vice […]

5 Requirements for Effective Self-Service Data Preparation While there’s a lot of enthusiasm for all things relating to Big Data, the hiring of a data scientist can be a frustrating experience for all concerned. All too often, data scientists wind up spending more time cleaning data than actually analyzing anything. To overcome that challenge, Pentaho, […]

2016 Data Storage Trends: DevOps, Flash and Hybrid Cloud Moving to expand the number of workloads on which a storage platform that is delivered as a service can be applied, Zadara Storage this week added support for object storage and Fibre Channel. In addition, Zadara Storage announced it is making available up to 3.2TB of […]

2016 Cloud Security Trends: Confidence on the Rise For the past year, FalconStor Software has been working on reinventing itself into a provider of a layer of FreeStor storage virtualization software that enables IT organizations to manage heterogeneous storage. Starting today, FalconStor Software is now applying predictive analytics to those heterogeneous storage systems. Tim Sheets, […]

Now that Hadoop is becoming a mainstream element of the enterprise, IT organizations need to come to terms with how to both manage and secure it. At the Hadoop Summit Europe 2016 conference today, Hortonworks unveiled a spate of updates that address how to apply security policies and maintain data governance to simplify the provisioning […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Most IT administrators spend a fair amount of their time trying to troubleshoot a problem by correlating log data against all the structured data that’s been collected about the IT environment. In fact, making sense of that data usually takes multiple orders of time than fixing the […]

Disaster Recovery as a Service: 7 Top Providers Within an enterprise IT environment, a lot can go wrong when it comes to disaster recovery. When an application is unavailable, a sequence of tasks needs to be executed in exactly the right order to recover it. Given that multiple applications all have their own requirements, you […]

5 Big Ways Big Data Is Changing the IT Network Most of the failures that occur on any given network are largely due to change management. Invariably, someone winds up changing a setting that creates a series of cascading events that leads to one or more applications suddenly crashing. The primary reason that this occurs […]

Increasing Enterprise Application Performance with Route Optimization At an OpenPOWER Summit 2016 event this week, two things relating to the adoption of OpenPOWER processors became very apparent. The first is that the rise of the cloud eliminates much of the cost of acquisition debate that has hampered broad scale usage of servers based on this […]

Unikernels: The Next Generation of Cloud Technology Looking to make it a lot simpler for IT organizations to implement the OpenStack cloud management framework, Rackspace today announced an OpenStack Everywhere initiative under which it will deploy and manage a turnkey instance of OpenStack on behalf of an organization. While interest in OpenStack as an open […]

2016 Trends: Preparing the Network for Web-Scale Demands As the devices attached to wireless networks become more robust, the richer the applications they begin to consume become. Before long many IT organizations discover that the first generation of wireless networks they deployed are no longer capable of meeting the bandwidth demands of those applications. Aerohive […]

Last year, EMC telegraphed that it planned to enable a software-defined approach to data protection in the form of what was then known as Project Falcon. This week, EMC made good on that promise with the launch of Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE). Caitlin Gordon, director of product marketing at EMC, says DD VE […]