Mike Vizard

There’s no doubt that mobile computing is the new tail that is about to wag the enterprise dog. What’s not apparent is how transformative mobile computing really will be in the enterprise. Not only will mobile computing devices become the primary vehicle through which enterprise applications are accessed, the way enterprise applications are built and […]

In most companies, the single most important asset they have is generally the most poorly leveraged. Ask any senior manager what their most important asset is and the answer is almost invariably their people. In fact, a recent survey of CEOs conducted by IBM found that 71 percent cited human capital as their greatest source […]

While almost every IT leader would say that enhancing collaboration across the organization is a strategic IT goal, a lot of the collaboration applications deployed don’t wind up being widely used. The reasons for this are varied, but the one that stands out in most organizations is that the collaboration application usually isn’t tied to […]

Most IT organizations are reconciled to the fact that managing mobile computing deployments is the next big challenge. The issue is finding a way to not only accomplish that goal on their own terms, but also in a way that doesn’t break the bank. Trying to address that issue, Splashtop recently moved to make its […]

Whether it’s on premise or in the cloud, deploying applications is always a cumbersome task fraught with error and risk. The challenge that cloud applications add is that they are usually being deployed on top of IT infrastructure with which the internal IT organization has little to no familiarity. To narrow the divide between IT […]

Pulling copper cable has never been a popular activity within IT circles, especially when the IT environment itself is subject to regular amounts of change. Now that fiber optic networking systems are becoming more affordable, however, the days of pulling copper cable may be coming to a close. Corning, a pioneer in fiber optic cabling, […]

One of the realities of managing IT in the cloud era is that the applications and systems that need to be managed now exist both inside and out of the data center. The problem that creates is that IT organizations are frequently asked to manage each cloud computing instance using tools that are designed for […]

While the rising interest in all things related to software-defined networking (SDN) is expected to create a $21 billion market by 2018, layering modern networking software on top of legacy network switches may not be the best use of an IT investment. That’s the case the folks at Plexxi, a provider of Ethernet switches that […]

With the rise of Flash memory and cloud computing, there have never been more options for managing data storage effectively. Obviously, that’s a very good thing, given the amount of data that needs to be managed. A new survey of 477 IT professionals conducted by DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization software, finds that […]

As IT organizations start to more fully embrace mobile computing, they are finding that little things like performance still matter. While using scripting languages and HTML5 allows them to quickly develop a mobile application, it usually comes at a performance cost. The folks at Embarcadero Technologies, however, contend that there is no reason to sacrifice […]

For years now, Blue Coat Systems has provided appliances for securing Web applications. This week, the company took a major step toward helping IT organizations become more proactive about IT security by acquiring Solera Networks, a provider of Big Data security analytics software focused on security intelligence. According to Blue Coat president and COO David […]

Just about everybody agrees that most mainframe applications could stand a little modernization. It’s just that nobody can seem to agree on which platforms that modernization should occur. What everybody seems to agree on is that whatever from that modern COBOL application takes, it’s going to be running on multiple operating systems that may or […]