Mike Vizard

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy As IT environments continue to scale beyond the capabilities of mere IT mortals to manage, there has been a shift toward reliance on IT automation tools. But one of the challenges that IT organizations frequently have with IT automation tools is a lack of visibility into what is […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths When it comes to IT infrastructure, there has never been more interdependency between systems, resulting in increased levels of complexity that make IT more difficult to manage than ever. Looking to give IT organizations more visibility and ultimately more control over that complexity, Xangati today announced an upgrade to […]

Five Ways to Scale Agile for the Enterprise More than a few organizations want to embrace agile development methodologies but for one reason or another lack the wherewithal to make it happen. Looking to make it simpler to adopt agile development practices, CollabNet, a provider of application life cycle management (ALM) software, has partnered with […]

Top Data Protection Predictions for 2014 With more data at stake and backups taking longer than ever, more organizations are relying on replication to protect their data. The challenge they face is scheduling the replication of the data in a way that doesn’t choke off network bandwidth that is sorely needed by production applications. Dell […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users As Hadoop continues to evolve, the types of applications that can be run on it are evolving quickly too, thanks to the emergence of an Apache Spark framework that enables Hadoop to run in-memory. Today, MapR Technologies became the latest distributor of Hadoop to announce support […]

Data Center Applications and the Cloud: What You Need to Know With the rise of container technology as a foundational element of operating systems, the dominance of the hypervisor in the age of the cloud may be coming to a close. The first mainstream usages of containers are manifesting themselves in the Linux kernel. Each […]

Five Common Excuses for Avoiding Windows Migrations While server virtualization is now standard fare, the use of virtualization on the desktop remains nominal. Looking to change that equation, VMware today released VMware Horizon 6, a new version of its desktop virtualization software that makes it simpler to manage desktops and applications. Viewing virtual instances of […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 They say that age is only a number, so with that in mind, IBM set out to prove that the 50-year-old mainframe still has what it takes to dominate enterprise computing. As part of its celebration of the 50th birthday of the mainframe, IBM today unveiled a […]

Ready for Launch: Five Steps for a Successful Go-Live Many developers have voted with their feet by using the MongoDB document database to build next-generation applications. The problem that creates for the internal IT department, however, is that the tools available for managing MongoDB have been fairly rudimentary. MongoDB is moving to address that specific […]

Seven Ways “As a Service” Can Benefit You One of the more vexing issues associated with enterprise applications is anything and everything to do with upgrades. While every vendor says customizing enterprise applications should be avoided, the vast majority of businesses wind up customizing them to one degree or another. That usually works fine until […]

How the Internet of Things Will Transform the Data Center The role hard disk drives (HDDs) will officially play in the data center still may be up for debate, but when it comes to primary storage, no one doubts they still have a significant role in the enterprise. To drive that point home, Seagate unveiled […]

Ten Factors to Consider When Moving to the Cloud With networks becoming distributed on a global scale in the age of the cloud, managing them has become all the more challenging. At the same time, however, the cloud affords IT an opportunity to centralize the management of all those networks. With those issues in mind, […]