Mike Vizard

How to Achieve Creative Collaboration Working Remotely Given the simple fact that videoconferencing services that are aimed at consumers are generally simple to use, services such as Google Hangouts have become increasingly popular. Now Blue Jeans Network wants to make it easier to bring Google Hangouts into the realm of everyday business. Blue Jeans Network […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Just about every strategic IT initiative being pursued in the enterprise these days eventually comes back to figuring out how to exploit data to gain a competitive advantage. Naturally, that leads to a lot of time and effort being spent with any number of Big […]

Cloud Security: Technologies You Need to Safely Use the Cloud When it comes to cloud computing, arguably the primary challenge facing IT organizations is how to efficiently manage application images that now run in and out of the traditional enterprise. To make that task simpler, at the VMworld 2014 conference, CliQr Technologies this week released […]

Ten Hot Google Apps for Business Looking to combine the best attributes of an intranet with a modern collaboration service, Huddle today unveiled a publishing platform that gives IT organizations more control over how individual documents are published, shared and accessed. Andy McLoughlin, executive vice president of strategy for Huddle, says that the latest version […]

Six Tips for Creating a Productive Work-from-Home Program The notion of having teams of people that all share the same physical location is nearly obsolete. Given the disparate cost of living in different regions, companies are often forced to leverage expertise at a price they can afford wherever they happen to find it. In recognition […]

Five Ways IT Can Increase Customer Engagement Massive amounts of investments have been made trying to create online communities around online sites. Most of those efforts have been failures. Salesforce.com is making the case that a big reason most of those efforts fail is the fact that most of those communities are built on top […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths For all the debate over cloud security, the issue that has never been addressed is the simple act of taking an application workload running on a virtual machine and redeploying it in its entirety some place where it shouldn’t run. After all, virtual machines are designed to be portable. […]

Network Visibility Can Help Avoid the IT Blame Game With the rise of the software-defined enterprise, it’s only a matter of time before the same programmable infrastructure concepts are applied to security as well. Taking a major step in that direction, Intel this week unveiled a programmable Intel Security Controller that is specifically optimized for […]

Five Ways Cloud Changes Will Impact You IT organizations routinely work with multiple types of endpoints, ranging from traditional PCs to thin clients and any number of mobile computing devices. Dell is one of the primary suppliers of many of those devices, but it may come as a surprise to some that at the VMworld […]

Network Evolution Key to Driving Cloud Expansion At the VMworld 2014 conference today, Emulex gave IT organizations a preview of a new generation of network adapters that allow provisioning tools to have complete control—down to the I/O adapter level—when bare metal rack servers are provisioned. Mike Jochimsen, director of product marketing and alliances at Emulex, […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud As part of an effort to round out its software-defined data center (SDDC) strategy, Hewlett-Packard today announced that HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) will be fully integrated with both the commercial and community editions of the HP Helion cloud computing framework that are based on […]

Top Five Considerations for a Secure Cloud Configuration Not only is managing compliance requirements a major time-consuming headache; the technology required to manage this process can be expensive to deploy and manage. With that issue in mind, Actiance this week announced the general availability of Vantage Cloud, an implementation of the company’s archiving and E-discovery […]