Mike Vizard

With more organizations making the transition to 10G Ethernet, most of them instantly realize that their existing firewall platforms are not going to be able to keep up with that kind of network traffic. As a result, many IT organizations are refreshing their security appliances as they upgrade their networks, which is touching off a […]

Pegasystems is out to erase the traditional boundaries between IT and the business with a forthcoming release of the company’s business process management (BPM) software that makes it easier to visually model processes in a way that creates much more appealing and robust applications. Speaking today at the PegaWorld 2013 conference, Pegasystems CEO Alan Trefler […]

With adoption of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 steadily increasing, there is a natural corresponding rise in the Microsoft System Center 2012 tools used to manage Windows servers. The challenge has been finding a way to cost-effectively adopt Microsoft Windows Systems Center 2012 without having to buy a copy of Microsoft’s management software for every instance […]

Eight Ways to Put Hadoop to Work in Any IT Department One of the first things any organization is going to want to do once it accumulates a mass of Big Data is search it. That usually means finding and deploying an enterprise search engine. To eliminate the friction involved in that process, Cloudera this […]

There are systems of record and systems of engagement and one day there will even be systems of satisfaction. But what will tie them all together are systems of interaction. At the IBM Innovate 2013 conference this week, IBM rolled out a series of extensions to its application development strategy that included the ability to […]

IT organizations waste an inordinate amount of time and money sifting through reports trying to figure out who is responsible for what element of the IT ecosystem that might be adversely affecting the performance of a particular piece of application code. Looking to reduce the amount of time IT organizations spend playing the “blame game,” […]

As part of a larger trend that is bringing a broad range of enterprise-class IT products into the small-to-medium business (SMB) market, Cisco this week added a Gigabit Ethernet switch to its Catalyst product line. Unveiled at the Cisco Partner Summit 2013 conference, the Cisco Catalyst 2960-X series doubles the amount of bandwidth and ports […]

For as long as anyone in IT can remember, applications and IT infrastructure are managed separately and never the twain shall meet. But with the rise of DevOps as a discipline, it’s become clear that these two IT management disciplines need to be tightly integrated. With that goal in mind, Compuware today released PureStack Technology, […]

If ever there was anything trickier to manage than an 802.11 wireless network, it’s hard to imagine what that might be. Not only is usage of certain access points likely to randomly spike, applications running on these networks are nothing if not finicky. Interest in Software-Defined Networking Rising Sharply Taken together, that might be why […]

As part of an effort to ensure it can generate some $7 billion in cloud revenue by 2015, IBM today announced it has acquired SoftLayer Technologies, a provider of cloud computing and hosting services. Best Practices for Enterprise Cloud Computing Although IBM declined to put a value on the acquisition, Wall Street speculation pegged the […]

In advance of this week’s Microsoft Tech Ed 2013 conference, Dell has significantly expanded the capabilities of its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) at a time when more IT organizations are transitioning from Windows XP to either Windows 7 or Windows 8. Dell DVS Enterprise for Windows Server 2012 has been enhanced to be able to […]

With interest in all things relating to Flash memory on the rise, sTec is looking to make it easier for IT organizations to deploy solid-state drives (SSDs) in Windows environments. At the Microsoft Tech Ed 2013 conference, sTec today unveiled the sTec 3000 storage appliance, which packages Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 software running on […]