Mike Vizard

The single biggest problem with most document management systems is that the average person doesn’t really want to use it. Everybody intellectually knows that things like version control are good to have. But the overhead from managing workflows inside a document management system usually results in people preferring to use email to send multiple versions […]

Estimates concerning the amount of fraud that regularly occurs vary widely, but it’s safe to say it involves multiple trillions of dollars. It’s not hard to see how that much fraud acts as a weight on the economy, not to mention corporate profits. The challenge has always been finding ways to identify that fraud in […]

Despite the existence of multiple application lifecycle management (ALM) frameworks, there hasn’t been a whole lot of progress in terms of applying a lot of discipline to the software development process. In fact, with the advent of agile development methodologies, you can easily see how things are getting worse rather than better. IT organizations are […]

There’s a bit of debate raging these days over where the center of analytics gravity is going to be. Some contend that without enough data scientists, analytics will advance too slowly to have as much impact on the business is the near term as it should. Others argue that no matter what happens, the expertise […]

Making good on a promise from 2012, QLogic today announced the availability of the QLogic FiberCache 1000 Series adapter, a Fibre-channel adapter for storage area networks (SANs) that turns server-side Flash cards into a shared resource. IT organizations have been increasingly deploying Flash server cards to boost application performance. But without some way to share […]

With more people relying primarily on a mobile computing device to access the Web, real estate is at a premium. This issue has increased the call for more data-driven applications where everything a user needs to see is on a single Web page. Known as a Single Page Application (SPA) framework, building these applications requires […]

There’s a new player in the open source IT automation space that is looking to challenge rival tools from vendors such as Puppet Labs and Opscode. AnsibleWorks has been launched as a corporate entity in support of Ansible, an IT automation framework that is based on a simple declarative language that doesn’t require IT organizations […]

As part of an effort to extend it storage reach into file synchronization, EMC today rolled out an enterprise edition of its Syncplicity file synchronization software that can make use of excess EMC storage capacity across the enterprise. According to Jeetu Patel, vice president and general manager of the EMC Syncplicity Business Unit, enterprise IT […]

Cisco today is simultaneously announcing an effort to sharply reduce the amount of network bandwidth IT organizations need to dedicate to video while at the same time making it simpler to invoke Cisco TelePresence video conferencing through its Cisco WebEx collaboration service. At the Enterprise Connect 2013 conference, Cisco revealed the development of a new […]

One of the more aggravating aspects of the digital age is that electronic messages are frequently in the eye of the beholder. Regardless of the mood of the person sending the message, it’s more often the mood of the recipient that dictates how the message is actually received. Five Factors that Drive a Wedge Between […]

The Ten Commandments of BYOD One of the more potentially troubling aspects of allowing people to use their own mobile phones at work is that it becomes a little more difficult for organizations to maintain control over the business relationship. Once employees start using their own phones, they generally give out their own phone numbers. […]

With a wider variety of storage technologies than ever running directly on servers, the time has come for IT organizations to find a way to manage them all as one logical resource. Sanbolic today began shipping Melio5, storage management software that Sanbolic CEO Momchil “Memo” Michailov says allows Flash memory, solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard […]