Mike Vizard

BYOD for the CIO: Maximize Productivity While Maintaining Security While individuals and companies regularly pay over $1,000 for a PC from Apple, getting them to part with the same amount of money for a PC running Windows has been a major challenge. With the launch of what HP Inc. claims to be the world’s thinnest […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise Now that hyperconverged systems that unify compute and storage have established themselves as the hottest trend in the data center, the only real question is what path most organizations will take to get there. While the most widely used path is to acquire new systems from a hardware vendor, SimpliVity […]

Managing sales in a way that maximizes profitability requires mastering a series of steps that often conspire to actually extend the amount of time it takes to close any given deal. In the middle of that process are sales managers trying to balance the amount of revenue any deal might generate versus what it costs […]

Rethinking Application Performance in the Digital Business Era Moving to provide a platform designed for applications that make broader use of parallelization, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise today unveiled a HPE Apollo 6500 server platform that, starting in the third quarter, can be configured with up to eight graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA in a 4u form […]

5 Ways to Get Developers to Adopt Your APIs Red Hat this week announced that it is making a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription available to developers at no cost. Ray Ploski, director of developer strategy for Red Hat, says that rather than hoping that developers who create applications on a free distribution of […]

Rethinking Application Performance in the Digital Business Era While there is no shortage of server vendors lending their weight to the official launch today of the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 processor series, otherwise known by the codename Broadwell, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is taking advantage of the opportunity to add a new level of persistent […]

How to Minimize the Impact of BYOD and Improve Security Now that Apple devices are widely deployed across many enterprises, managing them has become a mainstream IT challenge. The question that often arises is whether it’s better to manage those devices using a mobile device management (MDM) framework specifically optimized for them or to use […]

Flash Storage Architecture: What’s Available and Why It Matters As a general rule, IT environments are a lot more diverse than ever, which results in storage systems being accessed by a much broader array of applications and servers than ever before. To keep pace with that growing diversity, EMC today announced that the software in […]

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch At the Strata + Hadoop conference today, MemSQL released a 5.0 upgrade to its namesake in-memory database that advances the goal of integrating transactions and real-time analytics. Gary Orenstein, chief marketing officer for MemSQL, says MemSQL 5.0 makes it easier to accomplish that goal by invoking […]

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch Moving to make Big Data analytics more accessible to the average business user, Platfora today at the Strata + Hadoop conference announced that it is integrating its Big Data discovery software running on Hadoop with data visualization software from Tableau Software. Peter Schlampp, vice president of […]

Ten Recommendations for Simplified, Intelligence-Based Storage Management At a time when many IT organizations are reevaluating their IT infrastructure investments, Virtual Instruments today announced it will merge with Load DynamiX, a provider of tools for testing storage performance. The new entity will continue to be called Virtual Instruments, but will be led by current Load […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise As part of an effort to move beyond simply being a mechanism for more efficiently procuring cloud services, AppDirect has announced the acquisition of Xendo, a provider of hosted enterprise search services. AppDirect president and co-CEO Daniel Saks says this is the start of an effort by AppDirect to help […]