Mike Vizard

How to Achieve Creative Collaboration Working Remotely Hardly anyone looks forward to a conference call on the Web, in large part because the quality of the audio is anywhere from hollow to inconsistent. After a few minutes, most calls wind up being dominated by one person because trying to have an actual conversation is just […]

With millions of PCs still running Windows XP, the process associated with either replacing or upgrading those systems is rapidly moving up the list of things IT organizations will need to deal with between now and when Microsoft officially ends free support for Windows XP in April of 2014. To help organizations make that transition, […]

Big Data: Not Just for Big Business Anymore Users of customer relationship management (CRM) applications need to be able to analyze data within the context of the application they are using. The challenge is that much of the data they really need in order to perform those analytics, such as usage reports and customer support […]

Mid-Market Cloud Services Adoption Trends Competition in the cloud for backup business has become fierce. EVault, a unit of Seagate, this week announced that it will give one year of free backup service via its software to any customer who signs a Microsoft Azure Enterprise Agreement. According to Minh Phan, director of endpoint and mobility […]

Ten Tips for Realizing a True Mobile Enterprise In the early days of mobile computing, IT rushed to cope with all the associated mania by embracing mobile device management (MDM) tools. But while the rise of mobile computing clearly caught many providers of IT service management (ITSM) software flat footed, many of them are rapidly […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2014 Enterprise IT organizations are dealing with multiple support calls relating to the latest release of the Apple OS X operating system generally known as OS X Mavericks. Like most operating system upgrades, Mavericks comes with a fair number of glitches that will generate calls to the IT help […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution In celebration of the third anniversary of their alliance, NetApp and Cisco have extended the range of systems they jointly offer the cloud while extending their management reach out to the branch office. Based on the Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS) and storage from NetApp, […]

Five Best Practices for Disk Drive Storage Decisions As the line between storage attached to a server and a network continues to blur, IT organizations are looking for a way to manage both resources in tandem. To address that specific issue, DataCore has released an upgrade to its SANsymphony-V storage virtualization software that extends the […]

Debunking Five Misconceptions About Cloud-Based Services To ensure that it can provide management of cloud computing in any form it takes, CSC this week acquired ServiceMesh, a provider of cloud orchestration software. According to CSC CTO Dan Hushon, customers are moving past the debate over public versus private instances of cloud computing. They want to […]

Seven Ways to Make Big Data an Actionable Opportunity Normally storage companies love the idea that Big Data is going to result in consumption of more storage, but when the sheer volume of data involved starts to exceed the available amount of customer funds available, another approach must be found. With that issue in mind, […]

Four Ways Security Analytics Can Improve Business Performance When it comes to battling fraud, two basic issues cause problems for just about every company: They don’t have the data they need to immediately identify a fraudulent transaction, and the cost of deploying dedicated systems to identify fraud outweighs any of the potential savings. As a […]

Ten Questions to Ask When Writing a Cloud Security Policy As part of the general movement to push the management of IT security into the cloud, Sophos this week announced that it is rolling out its first security management platform in the cloud. According to Sophos CTO Gerhard Eschelbeck, Sophos Cloud is part of an […]