Mike Vizard

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes When it comes to business intelligence (BI) applications, infographics are quietly becoming the next big thing in visualization. Infographics have been around for awhile, but what is changing is how BI applications can now be used to create an infographic that is continuously upgraded. The latest example of this capability […]

A Guide to Switching Development Teams in the Midst of a Project One of the things that drives IT operations folks to distraction is all the changes that developers try in order to drive some new application functionality. All too often, one of those changes winds up breaking a raft of functionality on which any […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths In the wake of the economic downturn, many IT organizations have learned to remotely support branch offices without providing any local support staff by having the people in those offices access applications over a wide area network (WAN). Now, Riverbed Technology is moving to enhance the performance of those […]

Nine Questions to Ask When Selecting a Security Vendor In a world where the volume and sophistication of security attacks increases with each passing day, the ability to send actionable, real-time alerts about such attacks can be the difference between stopping an attack and becoming its next victim. To that end, McAfee, a unit of […]

Up-and-Coming Open Source Projects for the Enterprise This week, Red Hat will deliver a beta version of its first instance of Docker container software, which is intended to provide an alternative to the hypervisors that make applications more portable across hybrid cloud computing environments. Speaking last week at the Red Hat Summit 2014 conference, Paul […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths Now that Dell is private, the company continues to more rapidly embrace emerging technologies in the data center. This week at the Dell Enterprise Forum in Germany, the company not only announced the availability of advanced caching software for multi-tier storage systems, it cemented an alliance with Red Hat […]

Five Common Excuses for Avoiding Windows Migrations Sometimes the tool used to build an application really does matter—even years after it is built. Embarcadero Technologies this week released an upgrade to its rapid application development (RAD) environment that makes it possible to upgrade a C or C++ application running on Windows XP that was developed […]

Technology Strategy No Longer Just an IT Responsibility Figuring out which applications are tied to which specific systems resources has always been a significant challenge, and has only become more complex with the rise of virtualization. With so many virtual machines moving about the environment, keeping track of how system resources are actually being consumed […]

Top Cyber Scams Expected for 2014 When it comes to security, encryption has never been more popular. In the wake of an increased number of major security breaches and the Edward Snowden scandal involving the National Security Agency (NSA), interest in all things related to encryption has never been higher. The challenge is that the […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 When styles of computing shift, most major IT vendors view it as an opportunity to rip and replace existing systems at a significant cost. The end result is that it usually takes a while before the benefits of those IT advancements make it out to the broader […]

Five Digitally Vulnerable Areas Your Business May be Overlooking When it comes to IT security, the complexity of managing all the technologies involved often seems like a clear-cut case of insult being continuously added to injury. Looking to address that complexity issue, Trend Micro today announced an upgrade to the Trend Micro Complete User Protection […]

Seven Ways “As a Service” Can Benefit You With so many data centers making up the firmament of the cloud these days, it’s only natural that a pantheon of service providers would emerge to offer disaster recovery as a cloud service. The latest cloud service provider to join the list of vendors offering such services […]