Mike Vizard

Ten Factors to Consider When Moving to the Cloud With cloud services such as Box rapidly becoming a standard element of the enterprise IT firmament, IT organizations are now looking for more sophisticated tools for managing these kinds of cloud services. To provide those capabilities, Box has added an enterprise admin console that provides the […]

Seven Gifts for Tech Employees, $50 or Less Next-generation, high-definition displays, alternately known as Ultra HD or 4K displays, are among some of the most coveted and unaffordable pieces of IT gear to come down the pike in a long while. Capable of displaying 4,000 pixels wide and 2,000 pixels high, Ultra HD displays can […]

Big Data: Not Just for Big Business Anymore The way most organizations go about building a business intelligence application is to build a separate data warehouse from which the BI application can be used to query data. The problem with that approach, of course, is that it’s expensive to build and manage all those data […]

Up-and-Coming Open Source Projects for the Enterprise As part of a concerted effort to build next-generation data center architectures on x86 processors, Dell today unveiled a series of alliances coupled with product offerings that are intended to collectively modernize enterprise IT. According to Marius Haas, chief commercial officer and president of Dell enterprise solutions, the […]

Four Ways Security Analytics Can Improve Business Performance The proverbial stitch in time may save nine, but IT operations predicting problems before they occur saves more than just the budget. TeamQuest, a provider of IT management software, has made available a predictive analytics offering that can be used to identify the root causes of likely […]

Five Apps to Boost Worker Efficiency First came the ability to directly store documents in the cloud, now end users can create and edit them without having to rely on traditional productivity applications such as Microsoft Office. Huddle, a provider of a file synchronization and collaboration service in the cloud, this week unfurled Huddle Note, […]

Up-and-Coming Open Source Projects for the Enterprise After years in the making, Red Hat announced today that version 7.0 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now in beta. According to Ron Pacheco, senior manager of technology product management at Red Hat, this new release will be the foundation for building a modern operating system […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy Fresh off going private, Dell today made an aggressive move to capture a significantly larger share of two emerging technologies that are set to become the linchpin of next-generation enterprise IT infrastructure. In advance of the Dell World 2013 conference, Dell has announced a raft of storage, networking […]

As part of the launch of a broad range of commercial PC systems today at the HP Discover 2013 conference, Hewlett-Packard is trying to redefine the desktop PC. Instead of being housed in a box that takes up a lot of space, the HP EliteDesk 800 G1 and HP ProDesk 600 GI Desktop Mini systems […]

Six BYOD Questions Users Should Ask IT Managing mobile devices that belong to the organization is one thing; managing mobile devices that belong to employees or corporate guests is quite another. After acquiring Rover Apps earlier this year, Kaseya today unveiled the Kaseya BYOD Suite, a mobile computing management platform designed for IT organizations that […]

Seven Reasons Why Mobile Enterprise App Development Should Happen in the Cloud One of the primary reasons that agile development has been so successful has been the emergence of the open source Jenkins project, which provides a framework that makes managing the continuous delivery of software a whole lot easier. The problem is that organizations […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy Now that solid-state disks (SSDs) are starting to achieve some critical mass in the enterprise, the next big challenge is figuring out how to manage them. Rather than deploying dedicated software to manage SSDs, many organizations would simply prefer to extend the storage management software they have in […]