Mike Vizard

Eight Reasons Why Organizations Should Virtualize In a development that will soon find its way into a variety of offerings, IBM today announced that it has been awarded a patent for a new approach to provisioning virtual machines based on the amount of network bandwidth that is available. According to Ed Suffern, lead IBM inventor […]

Ten Reasons Why OpenStack Will Rule the Enterprise Three months after IBM acquired SoftLayer for $2 billion, the company is aggressively transitioning all of its cloud computing services to the SoftLayer platform. IBM announced that it is moving the IBM Social Learning Platform and the recently acquired Xtify mobile messaging software to the Softlayer cloud […]

After acquiring Zyrion earlier this year to gain access to a suite of advanced monitoring tools, Kaseya today unfurled a Kaseya Traverse cloud service that adds the ability to monitor virtual machines and cloud computing platforms to the Kaseya IT service management portfolio. According to Jeff Keyes, senior product marketing manager for Kaseya, Kaseya Traverse […]

Five Best Practices for Disk Drive Storage Decisions When it comes to data storage, the less IT organizations have to think about it, the happier they are. That’s the guiding principle behind a hybrid approach to data storage that spans magnetic disks and multiple types of solid-state drives (SSDs) that is being pursued by Dell. […]

Top Five Reasons to Implement a Multi-Channel Approach to Mobile Development Agile development is all the rage these days, largely because businesses want to build applications faster than ever. But that’s difficult to achieve when applications involve millions of lines of code that has to be written by developers using programming languages such as Java […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution One big issue the average enterprise IT organization has with public cloud computing services is the lack of control they have over the environment. Most public cloud services offer a limited number of options in terms of both the size of the virtual machines that […]

Over the years, two trends have conspired to make managing security in the data center more challenging than ever. The first is the simple act of consolidation in data center. There may be fewer data centers, but the number of servers in each of those data centers tends to be higher. In addition, those servers […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution One of the primary reasons IT organizations invested in virtualization was to add a layer of software that would simplify the management of all the disparate operating systems that reside within their various systems. Now, IT organizations have multiple flavors of virtual machines that all […]

Mid-Market Cloud Services Adoption Trends When it comes to compliance, the biggest issue that IT organizations face is that there is no central control and command function through which data is accessed. End users typically access a range of files that are housed in any number of applications and servers. Looking to bring some order […]

A Snapshot of Tablets @ Work Every day, a few thousand people look at something on their mobile device that they need to print out. The problem is that it is not so easy to do using devices in which the whole idea of printing something was either overlooked or outright frowned upon. Looking to […]

How to Battle Summer Complacency in Endpoint Security As the purveyors of malware continue to get more sophisticated, the defense systems IT organizations need to put in place must rise to meet the challenge. Speaking today at the McAfee Focus 2013 conference, McAfee President Michael DeCesare said the goal now is nothing less than to […]

Seven Ways to Make Big Data an Actionable Opportunity Many of the Big Data management issues that enterprise IT organizations are now facing have been previously tackled in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. For example, SGI has been providing a Big Data storage system optimized for HPC environments for the better part of 20 years. SGI […]