Mike Vizard

Five Critical Tenets of Identity and Access Management When it comes to actually managing user access, we often find a huge governance gap between business and IT. While internal IT organizations provide the physical access to those files, the management of the business is in charge of determining who should have access to applications and […]

Five Ways to Minimize the Risk of System Downtime For a while, the general assumption was that Ethernet would supplant all things Fibre Channel in the data center. But the rise of cloud computing and virtualization has created demand for more storage bandwidth than ever. Rising to the challenge, Cisco this week made additions to […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business One of the more frustrating things about IT is that in the wake of the consumerization of IT, no matter how hard internal IT departments try, they can’t wean end users off shadow IT services. Much of that has to do with the user experience those […]

The Differences Between Hardware Design and Software Development SAP via a new alliance with Apigee announced today that it is taking a significant step toward making all of its applications more accessible. Under the terms of the alliance between the two companies, SAP will resell an instance of the Apigee Edge API management platform. It […]

Five Ways Encryption Has (or Hasn’t) Changed Since Snowden One of the biggest problems with managing IT is correlating the impact of a particular network issue to the applications that might be affected by that problem. A new release of the SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) software is designed to make it a lot easier […]

Five Critical Steps for Handling a Security Breach One of the more challenging aspects of IT security is the sheer volume of data that security professionals need to sort through to determine whether their organization has been compromised in some way. Looking to make that task a whole lot easier, Splunk has released an upgrade […]

Five Hard Truths About Critical Infrastructure Protection When it comes to IT security, the odds are decidedly uneven. The perpetrators of these cyber attacks have access to what seems to be unlimited resources that they employ to automate the launch of thousands of attacks. In contrast, IT organizations are lucky if they can identify and […]

Cloud Security: Technologies You Need to Safely Use the Cloud Disaster recovery (DR) in the age of the cloud still isn’t as simple as it should be. But thanks to RackWare for providing the ability to encapsulate an entire IT environment from the operating system up through the application environment, DR is about to get […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud Interest has been rising in the idea of reinventing enterprise networking using a set of modular software components that run on commodity servers and other forms of commercial silicon. And as a provider of switches and a software-defined networking (SDN) environment that runs on commercial silicon […]

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business Sprint is betting that the consumerization of IT phenomenon is going to go well beyond a debate over how mobile computing devices are being brought into business environments. Starting in August, Sprint will pre-configure the mobile computing devices it sells with Google Apps for […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off The major challenge with Big Data isn’t so much storing it all as it is being able to find something meaningful in it. Alpine Data Labs took on that challenge this week with the launch of Alpine Chorus 4.0, an upgrade to its suite of […]

Four Steps to Implement Mobile CRM the Right Way The modern sales representative is looking to IT to gain more control and influence over customers. To that end, many sales reps regularly rely on customer relationship management (CRM) software to keep track of customer interactions. Now, Salesforce.com wants to give those sales reps more granular […]