Mike Vizard

2016 Data Analytics Forecast: Top 5 Trends to Watch With the rise of in-memory computing, it turns out that eight-socket x86 servers are now one of the fastest growing classes of infrastructure technologies in the data center. Big Data analytics applications that need to be processed in real time in particular lend themselves well to […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence Like never before, companies are using data to make business decisions. The challenge for IT organizations is to make sure that that data — increasing every day — is of the best quality. That means that IT is spending an inordinate amount of time cleansing data. To make it […]

2016 Data Storage Trends: DevOps, Flash and Hybrid Cloud Now that CoreOS has delivered a production-ready version of its rkt container, the one thing that is apparent is that there is now enough critical mass surrounding rkt to guarantee there will be a credible alternative to Docker containers for some time to come. CoreOS CEO […]

Storage vs. Backup: What Your Business Needs to Know As pressure on IT organizations to become more agile increases, servers and storage systems inside data centers are being turned into appliances that can be deployed in a matter of minutes. Looking to capitalize on that shift, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has unveiled 2U server and […]

2016 Cloud Security Trends: Confidence on the Rise One of the most common forms of hybrid cloud computing is VMware running on premise and the flavor of virtual machines that Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes available using open source Xen hypervisors. Because both environments build on fundamentally different virtual machine architectures, using AWS as an […]

Top Resolutions for IT Teams in 2016 Much of the interest in NoSQL databases has stemmed from the simple fact that many organizations running the open source MySQL relational database are either running out of performance headroom or have concerns over Oracle’s stewardship of the project. The challenge they face is not only the cost […]

2016 Cloud Security Trends: Confidence on the Rise As part of an ongoing effort to make it simpler to manage and analyze massive amounts of data residing in the IBM Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment in the cloud, IBM today unfurled a managed service, IBM Compose Enterprise, making it easier to create and spin up open […]

The Five Dos and Don’ts of Virtualization While multiple forms of desktop virtualization have been developed over the years, the simple fact is that none of them have taken the market by storm. Many IT organizations have found desktop virtualization in all its forms cumbersome to deploy and manage. Add on to that the cost […]

By any measure, there’s a critical shortage of IT security professionals. And while major strides are being made in terms of IT security training, it’s pretty clear there won’t be enough people with IT security expertise any time soon. Against that backdrop, PatternEx today announced it has developed a PatternEx Threat Prediction Platform that makes […]

Data Mismanagement: The 5 Sins of the Silo As part of a two-pronged effort to support data growth, scale and programmability, Cisco has added innovations to its Cisco MDS, UCS and Nexus portfolios. To increase the amount of data that can travel over a storage area network (SAN) while making it simpler to manage the […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 As part of an effort to make it simpler to identify illicit activities such as fraud, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) unfurled today a hosted service that combines archiving, compliance, software and machine learning to automatically detect patterns and anomalies in structured and unstructured data. Robert Patrick, director of product […]

5 New Use Cases for the Public Cloud IT organizations are quickly moving to embrace the notion of having multiple cloud computing options. The challenge now is figuring out which application workload to run where, based on the actual costs of running a workload on a specific cloud platform. To make that simpler to ascertain, […]