Mike Vizard

Data Center Applications and the Cloud: What You Need to Know For years, IBM has been trying to couple the distributed x86 and RISC-based systems to the mainframe, with mixed success. While customers clearly need to manage different classes of workloads on each of those platforms, not many felt compelled to acquire them all from […]

Top Five Things You Should Know About Network Forensics When it comes to IT security, the single biggest issue has always been detection. Unfortunately, the scale and complexity of the attacks being launched today makes detecting when an application or system has been compromised more difficult than ever. To help IT organizations address that specific […]

Data Center Applications and the Cloud: What You Need to Know With large numbers of IT organizations now trying to figure out how to actually build and deploy a private cloud, there’s an acute need for reference architectures that will help speed that process along. The latest example of a cloud reference architecture was unveiled […]

Seven Reasons Marketers Must Pay Attention to Big Data In a sure sign of things to come at the application level when it comes to applying predictive analytics, Teradata this week announced it has embedded that capability into its marketing applications delivered via the cloud. The latest version of Teradata Customer Interaction Manager cloud service […]

Eight Best Practices for a Secure Cloud Deployment As a leading proponent of the OpenStack cloud management framework, Metacloud has been a vocal advocate for private versus public cloud computing. Now, Metacloud is extending the reach of its services for managing OpenStack clouds into the realm of hosted cloud computing environments. This week Metacloud announced […]

Ten Things You Need to Know About Software-Defined Storage With the rise of storage virtualization, the types of storage that any one vendor can manage really have no limit. Case in point is NetApp, which today not only extended its unified storage lineup but also announced that its storage virtualization software now works with third-party […]

Transforming IT from a Department of ‘No’ to a Business Enabler BMC Software wants to eliminate the whole notion of a level-one job ticket when it comes to IT support. BMC today unveiled a series of updates to its IT support software portfolio, including version 2.0 of BMC MyIT, the company’s self-service IT support application […]

Top 10 Storage and Networking Trends for 2014 The difference between having to invest in a four-socket versus eight-socket server to run an enterprise IT application can be substantial. For that reason, eight-socket x86 servers have generally been relegated to the high end of the market, which is a place in which Dell is trying […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 One of the bigger challenges with developing any kind of Big Data application is being able to identify which data is actually relevant. One of the primary tools that developers have been using to accomplish that task is an open source enterprise search and indexing engine developed by […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 When it comes to Big Data, one of the more significant challenges is deciding where to put all that data. After all, once it reaches a certain size, it becomes both impractical and expensive to move it. Given the cost of housing all that data, a […]

Five Important Lessons from Recent Data Breaches When it comes to IT security, there has been a palpable shift in philosophy in the last year. Instead of focusing on defending the network perimeter, IT organizations are assuming that to one degree or another, their systems have already been compromised. The real issue is not only […]

22 Android Apps for Meeting Success One of the great ironies of mobile computing is that when all is said and done, IT organizations might wind up having an easier time of managing the application environment than ever before. Looking to help IT organizations get to that point, Hewlett-Packard today unveiled the HP Access Catalog, […]