Mike Vizard

Eight Reasons Why Organizations Should Virtualize As part of a larger effort to unify the management of security across physical and virtual networking environments, Juniper Networks today introduced a Firefly Suite of security offerings for virtual environments that can all be managed via a central console. According to Tamir Hardof, senior director of product marketing […]

Seven Ways to Make Big Data an Actionable Opportunity In terms of actual adoption, the fastest growing segment of the database market actually belongs to graph databases that are increasingly being used to drive new classes of applications that require mapping functionality. Looking to extend the popularity of those databases, Neo Technology this week announced […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 When it comes to application performance, IT organizations have been engaged in a multi-decade arms race to gain a competitive edge over rivals. With the rise of in-memory computing, that arms race is moving into another phase. One of the players fueling that arms race is […]

No end user relishes engaging with the average IT department. From their perspective, navigating IT support processes is often little more than a journey down the proverbial rabbit hole. Of course, truth be told, the average IT person isn’t exactly cut out for delivering support with a smile. For both those reasons, a lot of […]

Six Reasons Businesses Need to Pay Attention to Unstructured Data With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), IT organizations will be wrestling with finding a way to first aggregate data and then identify the events that have actual relevance to the business. The problem is that thousands, possibly even millions, of devices will […]

Five Things to Do Now for Greater Security and Compliance As managing security becomes more complex, the typical small-to-medium-size (SMB) organization is looking for a way to provide the most amount of IT security at the lowest cost possible. With that issue in mind, Fortinet today unveiled 12 new offerings designed to unify threat management […]

More IT organizations than ever are relying on NetFlow to gather data about network traffic that can be analyzed in a way that improves overall application performance. The challenge is that collecting and analyzing that data usually comes at the expense of the overall performance of the network. To address that issue, Gigamon today announced […]

Top 10 Project Management Trends for 2014 When it comes to failed IT projects, just about everybody agrees that the original source of sin is inevitably the requirements document. What no one is quite sure of, though, is who exactly is at fault for specifying requirements that didn’t reflect the actual goals of the applications. […]

Six Ways a Multi-tiered Security Strategy Benefits Businesses When faced with an increased number of threats, the natural tendency is to want to lock everything down as much as possible. In reality, the role of the IT security officer is evolving into one that enables business processes to occur with the least amount of risk […]

Desktop Virtualization Trends in Health Care Desktop virtualization with most organizations remains a work in progress, much of it being driven by the need to connect a broad range of diverse devices to Windows applications. Looking to strengthen its ability to deliver those capabilities, Citrix this week has made two moves. The first is acquiring […]

Ten Factors to Consider When Moving to the Cloud When it comes to cloud computing, it’s actually some of the basic things, such as how to efficiently get data in and out of the cloud, that tend to hang up IT organizations more than complex issues, such as data governance. To make it easier to […]

Like with most standards, the way the emerging OpenStack cloud management framework can be implemented is open to a fair amount of interpretation. For that reason, a lot of IT organizations implementing OpenStack in 2014 are going to need some way of determining whether what they are deploying is actually compatible with other implementations of […]