Mike Vizard

2016 Trends: Preparing the Network for Web-Scale Demands Aruba Networks, now operating as a unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), today extended the management capabilities it provides across its switches and access points as well as the network switches offered by HPE. According to Christian Gilby, director of product marketing for Aruba Networks, Aruba is […]

The Role of IT in the Cloud Era In a significant development that promises to simplify application development in the age of the cloud, The Eclipse Foundation unveiled a new integrated development environment (IDE) that is being supported by both Microsoft and open source stalwarts such as Red Hat and SAP. Tyler Jewell, project lead […]

10 Security Trends to Look for in 2016 Given the sensitivity of the data stored in customer relationship management (CRM) applications, it should come as no surprise that there is a lot of concern over how to secure that data. To address that issue, Salesforce today extended a security policy engine service that now makes […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work At the Enterprise Connect 2016 conference today, Twilio announced that IT organizations can now set up a private connection between their local IT environment and instances of its communications software running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Patrick Malatack, vice president of product management for Twilio, […]

Hot New Security Products Debuting at RSA Conference 2016 As is the case with almost any IT initiative these days, security is a major concern with the Internet of Things (IoT). The simple fact is that digital criminals have become quite adept at exploiting even the simplest of vulnerabilities in ways that can wreak havoc. […]

2016 Trends: Preparing the Network for Web-Scale Demands EMC this week made available what it describes as the first Flash storage system that leverages PCIe Gen3 and NVMe technology to deliver I/O performance that it claims can deliver latencies of 100 microseconds, throughput as high as 100 GB per second, and up to 10 million […]

The Role of IT in the Cloud Era Now that the battle over software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications has moved into a suite phase where vendors bundle applications to get market share, the throwing of vendor elbows has become a lot sharper in recent months. But with the release this week of the spring edition of its […]

Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2016 At the RSA 2016 conference this week, Kaspersky Lab made it clear that its ambition lies well beyond simply providing IT security products. For the first time, it will directly provide IT security services to customers in the form of Kaspersky Lab Security Intelligence Services that make […]

How to Assess Your Critical Cloud Service Providers While a lot of interest in all things video exists these days, the number of organizations that want to go to the trouble of provisioning IT infrastructure to run video is fairly limited. To enable organizations to take advantage of video without incurring all that management overhead, […]

Five Common Data Encryption Myths With more data than ever being generated by mobile computing devices, securing that information has become a major challenge for IT organizations that often don’t control either the endpoint or even the network being used to transmit data. At the RSA Security 2016 conference today, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) moved to […]

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading Looking to make it simpler and less expensive to back up data, Oracle today unveiled an update to Oracle StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager System software that enables Oracle customers to back up data and archive directly into the Oracle cloud. That move comes on the heels […]

6 Cyber Secrets Setting You Up for Betrayal IT security is almost by definition a team sport. In order to win, IT security analysts need to collaborate. The only way to effectively sort through and prioritize potential threats is to enable as much collaboration as possible among those analysts. To foster that collaboration, BrightPoint Security […]