Mike Vizard

IT Spending Expected to Rise in 2014 One of the more interesting aspects of any software-as-a-service (SaaS) application is that sometimes it allows organizations to cut directly to the chase. Case in point is Anaplan, a provider of a business planning and modeling application that runs in memory. Rather than waiting for IT organizations to […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 Back in 2012, ShoreTel acquired M5 Networks to gain control of a cloud service for delivering unified communications that worked across several classes of IP phones and applications. Today, ShoreTel is announcing that the phones it rechristened ShoreTel Sky now include IP phones made by ShoreTel. Bernard […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 Once upon a time, IT organizations tended to treat systems based on different OSes as completely different stacks of compute resources that pretty much ran in isolation from one another. But as pressure to become more cost efficient has mounted alongside the rise of application workloads that […]

Ten Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014 Though you hear about the popularity of videoconferencing in business, the reality is that only 7 percent of organizations have implemented systems with quality video equipment. And among those that have, the systems sit idle most of the day. The two primary reasons for this are that […]

Twelve Cloud Storage Services for Work and Play Building on the latest version of its open source file synchronization software, ownCloud this week announced that the newly released ownCloud 6 Enterprise Edition gives IT administrators more granular control over how and when files are accessed. In addition, ownCloud announced today that it has raised an […]

Five Reasons Wi-Fi Will Overtake Traditional Telecoms Wireless networks come in many forms, but very few of them are truly enterprise class. Starting today, Aruba Networks wants to redefine the way businesses provide wireless services. Aruba today unveiled the Aruba Mobility-Defined Networks architecture, which provides IT organizations with the ability to invoke various triggers in […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 What takes place across a wide area network (WAN) is often a mystery to even the most experienced networking professionals. Looking to provide a lot more visibility into those extended networks, Talari Networks today launched an application that provides a centralized view of real-time status and historical […]

Five Common Excuses for Avoiding Windows Migrations When it comes time to build a new data center or modernize an old one, the movement of applications from one set of systems to another can be a painful process that usually takes weeks to accomplish. To address that particular challenge, Delphix launched the Delphix Modernization Engine, […]

Five Rules of Modern Application Development Red Hat has been making the case for the use of open source Docker containers as a way to make applications not only easier to deploy, but also more secure. Now Red Hat is looking to certify the interoperability of different Linux-based platforms that make use of Docker containers. […]

Five Steps to Becoming a Cloud-Ready Company IT professionals spend an inordinate amount of time babysitting gear to not only keep it running but also optimize performance. The trouble is that all this maintenance work doesn’t leave a lot of time for applying all that IT expertise to drive business innovation. The good news is […]

Seven Ways “As a Service” Can Benefit You Low-energy servers based on new classes of processors from ARM and Intel are still being beta tested within most organizations. But it stands to reason that just like any other class of server, IT organizations will be looking to get as much utilization out of them as […]

Mobile Development Trends for 2014 As one of the early pioneers of mobile computing, Good Technology has become a platform that IT organizations use to deliver data to mobile computing devices, and also to build applications on. With the recent acquisition of BoxTone, a provider of a mobile device management service that is delivered via […]