Mike Vizard

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 Everything in IT these days is rapidly moving to be defined by software, including now backup and recovery. EMC today launched a Data Protection Suite spanning its Avamar, NetWorker, Data Protection Advisor, Mozy and SourceOne products that not only makes them easier to acquire, but also sets […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths Cisco may be a multi-billion entity that was built around a proprietary operating system, but if recent moves are any indication, a wave of open interoperability has been steadily reshaping how Cisco is bringing next-generation IT infrastructure to market. After previously unveiling an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) architecture based […]

Ten Tips to Gain Control of Your Email Inbox Novell may not be the industry powerhouse it once was but after being acquired by Attachmate it appears to still have plenty of fight. With the release of GroupWise 2014 today, Novell is once more making staking a claim to email in the enterprise. In addition […]

The Struggle to Manage the Complexity of Modern IT While the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform may garner all the SAP headlines of late, it may turn out that the SAP Sybase relational database is now more relevant than ever. SAP today unveiled version 16 of the SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), which can […]

Five Tips for Executing a Winning Mobile Strategy Managing VPNs has been a challenge for most IT organizations. Connections are usually fragile and updating VPN software every time a change to the IT environment is provided becomes a time consuming endeavor. To simplify VPN management, at the Interop Spring 2014 conference, Dell announced the beta […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy While a lot of organizations would like to get out of the business of managing IT themselves, the biggest issue they have with letting someone else do it on their behalf is a loss of control. Lots of managed service providers would happily manage the IT operations if […]

Ten Things You Need to Know About Software-Defined Storage In a move that brings two separate networking architectures under one management framework, Extreme Networks at the Interop Spring 2014 conference today announced an open software-defined networking (SDN) architecture. This comes only a few months after Extreme Networks acquired Enterasys Networks. Mike Leibovitz, director of mobility […]

Transforming IT from a Department of ‘No’ to a Business Enabler In terms of the pantheon of enterprise products that are difficult to manage, there is no doubt that Microsoft Exchange would be at or near the top of the list. Looking to reduce that complexity, Splunk at the Microsoft Exchange 2014 conference today launched […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Shadow IT in the Enterprise In the age of the cloud, managing applications is fast becoming a major headache for IT. Not that managing applications was ever easy, but now those applications are likely to be distributed almost anywhere. CliQr Technologies this week took a significant step toward easing that management […]

Debunking the Top Data Center Myths Cisco advanced its case for converging the management of the data center operations around its servers and switches with the announcement this week of a new high-end series of switches that support 10/40G Ethernet aggregation today and 40/100G aggregations tomorrow. Announced at the Cisco Partner 2014 Summit, Todd Brannon, […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 As popular as Macintoshes and iPads from Apple are with the average end user, from an IT perspective, they represent a lot of additional complexity. Generally speaking, the tools that IT organizations have at their disposal are not applicable to Apple devices, resulting in a lot of […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy One of the fiercest rivalries among internal IT teams is the war for control over workloads between the teams that manage distributed systems and the mainframe. For the past couple of decades, supporters of distributed systems have had the better side of that argument. But recent adjustments to […]