Mike Vizard

IT organizations have been struggling with a way to make corporate data securely available to users of multiple types of mobile computing devices for several years now. The problem is that most of the available approaches have relied on an outside-in approach to the problem rather than thinking in terms of how to make data […]

One of the more underappreciated aspects of networking these days is just how powerful a network management tool the simple application programming interface (API) can actually be. Case in point are F5 Networks and Big Switch Networks, which just inked an alliance under which any changes made to networking gear from F5 Networks will automatically […]

While the acquisition of McAfee presented some tantalizing possibilities in the terms of improving the overall IT security situation, the process by which the respective technologies involved might be integrated has proven fairly extensive. This week, however, McAfee rolled out is first major networking products based on actual Intel processors. Rather than relying on custom […]

Big Data Makes Organizations Smarter, but Open Data Makes Them Richer While the folks who develop Toad business intelligence software for Dell are as excited as anyone about the rise of in-memory computing, they kind of wish they would get more recognition for their efforts. Dell recently released an upgrade to its BI offering, which […]

Top 11 Highly Requested IT Skills Just about every IT organization that is working with leading-edge technologies has the same basic problem: They can’t find enough people with the skills required to deploy technology in way that would actually derive meaningful value for the business. The reasons for this are two-fold: Most organizations don’t have […]

As a continuing sign of the growing maturity of Box.net as a platform in the enterprise for sharing content, GoodData today announced that it has partnered with Box.net to deliver a set of analytics services in the cloud that specifically monitor usage of the Box.net platform. According to Cody Crnkovich, vice president of business development […]

Compliance in a mobile computing world where every user assumes they have the right to access almost any data regardless of whether they have permission has become a major headache for IT organizations. Of course, cloud computing services have just exacerbated that problem by making it easy for users to store data outside of any […]

As part of an effort to give applications more control over the infrastructure used to host them in the cloud, Riverbed Technology today at the Interop 2013 conference unveiled the Stingray Services Controller, a next-generation instance of the virtual application delivery controller (ADC) that Riverbed gained when it acquired Zeus Technology in 2011. According to […]

Ten Steps You Shouldn’t Take to Make Storage Run Faster With just about everything in the data center becoming programmable these days, storage vendors are racing to develop new software-defined architectures that promise to make storage systems easier to deploy and manage. The issue with all these approaches is that they have all been limited […]

While there’s a lot of interest in all things related to software-defined networking, it may be years before the various standards bodies working on these technologies settle on an approach that is truly viable in the enterprise. In the meantime, Enterasys, a unit of Siemens Enterprise Communications, is making the case that enterprise IT organizations […]

Rather than forcing people down the path of relying on tablets to consume content and PC systems to create it, Acer CEO JT Wang says people increasingly want to have a touch-and-type experience using a single device that makes it easy to switch back and forth between consuming and creating content. Aiming squarely at Apple, […]

The real challenge with agile development is that it exposes all the silos in the IT organization, warts and all. Unfortunately, none of these problems magically go away. They require somebody in the senior leadership of the IT organization to take ownership of the problem. Whether that person is the CIO or someone sporting some […]