Mike Vizard

Twelve Cloud Storage Services for Work and Play The biggest objection to public cloud computing is not the idea that there are external IT resources as much as there is not enough control being provided over them. To address that issue, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) this week announced it is adding tools to the Hitachi […]

Technology Strategy No Longer Just an IT Responsibility Because it’s an open source tool for building analytics applications, the R programming language has gained a lot of traction in academia, and that is now carrying over into the business world. As new graduates enter the workforce, they naturally want to bring their R programming skills […]

Five Ways to Minimize the Risk of System Downtime Thanks to the rise of everything from video to software-defined networks (SDNs), most IT organizations are looking at a significant 10 Gigabit Ethernet upgrade to their networking infrastructure within the next two years. That shift also creates an opportunity for a whole host of rivals to […]

Software-Defined Storage: Driving a New Era of the Cloud Given the amount of data that IT organizations will be struggling with in the years ahead, the most significant advances in storage technologies may have a lot more to do with software than hardware. Permabit laid claim to one of those advances today with the launch […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths Ever since going private, Dell has been making a concerted effort to deliver products and services that are much closer to emerging than established. Today at the Dell User Forum 2014 conference, the company unveiled a series of appliances optimized to run the Hadoop distribution from Cloudera and databases […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives As IT automation becomes more prevalent, it may soon matter a lot more how any given new technology fits into the larger ecosystem. Puppets Labs today announced the launch of a Puppet Supported Program around its open source IT automation software that includes support from Arista Networks, Brocade, […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths While most IT organizations may never buy a supercomputer, they should start paying more attention to technology advances occurring in this space for two reasons. The first is that supercomputers are increasingly becoming available as cloud services that organizations can rent. The second is that supercomputer technology advances are […]

Network Evolution Key to Driving Cloud Expansion Signaling a shift into application performance monitoring (APM) delivered via the cloud, SolarWinds has acquired Pingdom as part of what promises to be a series of moves to expand the company’s product portfolio beyond IT infrastructure running on premise. With organizations trying to manage more applications than ever, […]

Network Evolution Key to Driving Cloud Expansion Conceptually, the shift to platform as a service (PaaS) makes a lot of sense. Instead of managing stacks of computing, a PaaS environment makes it simpler to manage large swaths of the IT environment at a higher level of abstraction. For that reason, Cloud Foundry has received a […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps Following the rise of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, it was only a matter of time before Bring Your Own Applications (BYOA) rose to the fore. After all, the whole point of having your own personal device is to load it up with […]

A Guide to Switching Development Teams in the Midst of a Project When it comes to DevOps these days, continuous delivery is all the rage. The basic idea is that in an agile world of application development, software is being continuously updated. Obviously, that puts a lot of pressure on the IT operations team tasked […]

Study Finds Network Admins Juggling Multiple Initiatives For the last couple of years BMC Software has made helping customers keep their mainframe costs under control one of its primary missions. Now it wants to automate the process. BMC this week added Intelligent Capping to its portfolio of tools for minimizing software licensing costs on IBM […]