Mike Vizard

Top 10 Network Tips to Prep for March Madness Beginning Tuesday, a lot of IT organizations are suddenly going to start noticing some unusual traffic patterns on their networks. With the start of the NCAA Basketball tournaments, a lot of people will be tuning in over the Web during working hours to watch games that […]

The Benefits of Big Data Hindered by Traditional Analytic Approaches First the good news: A new survey of 600 executives conducted by Accenture in the U.S. and the United Kingdom finds that businesses have a much greater appreciation for analytics than ever before. Two out of three executives report their organizations have appointed a senior […]

Most IT organizations have little to no visibility into what is rapidly becoming the most commonly used platform for running applications. While just about every organization these days either has or is about to deploy a mobile computing application, they are generally running blind when it comes to knowing how that application is actually being […]

With the rise of cloud computing, more IT organizations have come to appreciate the caching capabilities of content delivery networks (CDN) that allow them to store copies of data much closer to where any user might be located. What they appreciate less, however, is the cost of those services. CDN.net is looking to change that […]

Part of the challenge when it comes to managing backup and recovery is that the tools IT organizations have in place to manage this process can best be described as arcane. That makes actually discerning what’s happening during the backup and recovery process difficult. EMC this week says it’s moving to give customers a lot […]

Cisco is moving to lower the cost of enterprise networking by essentially adding more functionality to routers at the edge of the network. Announced today, the Cisco Integrated Services Router with Application Experience (ISR-AX) simplifies the delivery of services by including functionality such as wide-area network (WAN) optimization, firewall, intrusion prevention and virtual private networking […]

File synchronization is quickly emerging as a foundational technology in the enterprise thanks mainly to the simultaneous rise of mobile and cloud computing. What started out as a tool for end users to share files using services such as Dropbox.com is now being included in any number of enterprise applications. But as positive a development […]

Monitoring a situation is one thing; fixing it is quite another. AppDynamics today announced that it is extending its application monitoring tools to include run book automation capabilities that IT organizations can leverage to automatically remediate an application performance issue using advanced analytics. According to AppDynamics CEO Jyoti Bansal, the goal has always been to […]

As part of a broad industry trend towards making IT infrastructure programmable, Riverbed Technology today released a set of open application programming interfaces (APIs) that gives IT organizations more control over network services. Dubbed FlyScript, the software development kit (SDK) provided by Riverbed makes use of RESTful APIs and the Python programming language to access […]

Survey Exposes Concerns About Employee Privacy for BYOD All things being equal, most organizations would not opt to manage IT the way they do today. Instead of having to invest in dedicated IT infrastructure they would be making more use of IT management software delivered as a service. And they would look for a platform […]

A lot has been made over the need for more data scientists in the age of Big Data. But the truth of the matter is that analytics is as much an art as it is science. In pursuit of that, Alteryx today released an upgrade to its analytics application that sports a new user interface […]

Cloud computing tends to condition people into thinking that where a remote data center is physically located doesn’t matter as long as it’s accessible. But from a performance perspective, the laws of physics still very much apply in the cloud, which is one reason we’re starting to see cloud service providers focus on specific regional […]