Mike Vizard

While the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) backed by Red Hat has been around a lot longer than OpenStack, the latter might do a lot more for the adoption of the former than the other way around. KVM has definitely emerged as a credible virtual machine alternative to VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Xen. But in […]

Ten Factors to Consider When Moving to the Cloud Going into 2014, one of the things that a lot of IT organizations will have to start getting used to is that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is the new middleware. What started out initially as a set of packaged middleware that was deployed in the cloud as the […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 While most of the conversation surrounding Big Data these days is squarely focused on Hadoop, Capgemini is betting that Big Data will require a small pantheon of technologies to be successfully deployed and managed. As a result, Capgemini has inked an extensive alliance with Pivotal, a […]

Twelve Cloud Storage Services for Work and Play One of the most obvious reasons that services such as Dropbox or Box are so popular with end users is that most internal IT organizations simply haven’t had a way to offer that capability. End users were acquiring mobile computing devices by the millions and they simply […]

Realizing that an application or system has been compromised is one thing, but figuring out exactly what should be done about it is quite another. Looking to extend the reach and scope of its security analytics capabilities, Blue Coat Systems this week announced that it has acquired Norman Shark, a provider of malware analysis software. […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 Conventional Big Data wisdom holds that in order to derive any value from technologies such as Hadoop, organizations need to invest in a cadre of data scientists to build complex analytics applications. The problem with that thinking is that by the time an organization assembles all […]

Ten Reasons Why OpenStack Will Rule the Enterprise IBM is making a concerted effort to make OpenStack more efficient by delivering tools for simplifying the management of IT that are optimized for the open source cloud-management framework. A new IBM Platform Resource Scheduler extension to IBM’s SmartCloud Orchestrator leverages technology that was originally developed by […]

It’s hard to think of an application these days that isn’t dependent on the network to one degree or another. And yet the visibility into the network, never mind actual control, that most owners of those applications have is minimal at best. Gigamon is trying to address that issue with a Unified Visibility Fabric that […]

2014 Cybersecurity Forecast The challenge with IT security for the average organization is that they can’t afford to hire a dedicated specialist to manage it. All the security technology in the world simply isn’t of much value when there’s nobody around to decipher what any of it means. As part of a broad effort to […]

Cisco doesn’t have much of an investment in existing PC systems, so when it comes to moving to desktop-as-a-service (DaaS), it might only be natural for Cisco to see moving desktops to some form of cloud computing as not only a good idea but also a major opportunity to disrupt the status quo. With the […]

Study Shows Organizations That Provide Training Have Higher Project Success With interest in OpenStack rising across the enterprise, a lot of IT professionals should be able to count on some new opportunities opening up in 2014, provided, of course, that they know how OpenStack works. As part of an ongoing OpenStack education effort, Mirantis, a […]

Five Key Considerations for Backup & Recovery Part of the problem with backup and recovery is that as a task it’s generally something that doesn’t come naturally to the average end user. They’re not inclined to do it very often, preferring instead to rely on IT administrators who have a few thousand other things to […]