Mike Vizard

Five Key Principles for Continuous IT Cost Optimization For most organizations, the single biggest impediment to moving to the cloud is that they have often already invested millions of dollars in existing systems. As a result, despite the operational cost benefits, many are putting off moving to the cloud until it’s time for the next […]

Thirteen Exciting Security Startups to Watch One of the more frustrating aspects of Web security is that there are container technologies that will secure browsers, but most of them require a lot of weight in terms of processing requirements for a fairly new system to run them or they impose a unique browser experience that […]

IBM is looking to jumpstart cloud adoption by launching a catalog of applications aimed at specific vertical industry segments as part of its larger effort to deeply embed IBM services inside business processes. The expansion of the IBM Cloud Consulting portfolio announced today represents a concerted effort to help organizations make the shift to the […]

Custom Mobile Apps: Streamlining the Way Business Gets Done Building mobile computing applications is becoming a more complex and daunting proposition with each passing day. Not only are there more devices to support than ever, many of those same applications also must run on PCs. Looking to provide IT organizations with a simpler way to […]

Just about every IT organization is building out a private cloud computing platform as part of a larger cloud computing strategy that will include internal and external resources. The challenge is figuring out how make that happen in the shortest amount of time possible. For that reason, interest in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings in the enterprise […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy Most IT organizations today have access to multiple types of wide area networks (WANs), which consist of everything from basic Internet connections to the most expensive MPLS service. What they don’t have is a lot of granular control over what WAN segment is being used by any particular […]

Five Ways to Improve Survey Engagement and Customer Insights When it comes to investing in customer relationship management (CRM) applications, many organizations understandably experience a lot of frustration. CRM can represent a substantial investment and still not lead to any substantial improvement in sales. That’s because there’s a world of difference between being able to […]

Whether it’s inside a personal computing device or an enterprise-class storage system, density, in an age when physical space is at a premium, is just as important as the total amount of capacity being made available in a storage device. With that in mind, the Samsung hard disk drive (HDD) unit of Seagate, which Seagate […]

The Impact of Advanced Persistent Threats to Enterprises Studies have shown that time after time it’s the external-facing Web applications that are most targeted by hackers and other digital miscreants. As the provider of a content delivery network (CDN) that is used primarily to accelerate the performance of those applications, it makes sense that Akamai […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution Given the sheer amount of data many organizations are storing in their data warehouses, the point where it’s no longer practical to store all that data on premise is rapidly approaching. Looking to help companies running SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) software to make that […]

A Three-Step Plan for Successful Change Management In a lot of organizations, human resources has very little to do with either humans or the managing of them as resources. For the most part, the denizens of the human resources (HR) department spend most of their time either filling out paperwork that makes sure the organization […]

Big Data: Eight Facts and Eight Fictions Being able to view massive amounts of Big Data is one thing; actually being able to manipulate it is quite another. Historically, combining various data sets in a way that allows them to be visualized and explored required a lot of intervention from someone with a lot of […]