Mike Vizard

There’s no doubt that thanks to agile development methodologies IT organizations are churning out more code than ever. The problem they now face is figuring out how to keep up with all that code from a management perspective. Most of the existing application lifecycle management (ALM) frameworks that IT organizations have in place were designed […]

While the number of RISC-based servers being acquired has been in steady decline for several years, IBM is starting to make the case that Big Data applications are about to start turning all that around. IBM today unveiled a series of Big Data platforms based on its Power Series platform, including a PureData System for […]

As cloud computing continues to evolve, the relationship between the network and virtual machine software is starting to fuse. Case in point is a series of new offerings announced today by Cisco that includes the Cisco Nexus 1000V InterCloud for tying enterprise networks more closely to third-party cloud service providers, in addition to a new […]

Like most things associated with managing IT these days, setting up the infrastructure required to support a particular application seems like a waste of resources when that application is readily available in the cloud. The latest example of this trend comes from Convercent, which has launched a namesake compliance management application in the cloud. According […]

The trouble with the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is the simple fact that most IT organizations have no tools or processes in place to manage it. The end result is a lot of poorly protected endpoints that more than likely are out of compliance with any number of regulations. It’s little wonder that […]

For a long time now, Cisco has been talking about the value of self-healing networks. Now Cisco is moving to apply that concept to security as well. At the Cisco Live! event in London this week, Cisco announced it has acquired Cognitive Security, a provider of an advanced analytics application designed to detect security threats […]

Gathering intelligence is one thing, finding a place to store and distribute it is another. NetCitadel, a startup that came out of stealth mode this week, unfurled a OneControl Security Orchestration Platform that provides a central repository for collecting data about security events across the enterprise. According to NetCitadel CEO Mike Horn, most IT organizations […]

At a time when the need for speed never mattered more to security, F5 Networks is adding a firewall to its application delivery controller (ADC) platform that is capable of providing 640 Gbps of throughput across 288 million concurrent sessions or a total of 8 million connections per second. That may sound like performance levels […]

These days, IT security is all about mean time to remediation. As the attacks become more sophisticated, it may easily be weeks, sometimes even months, before IT departments discover a breach. In the meantime, the amount of damage that could be done in terms of security compromises could be incalculable. As part of an effort […]

The introduction of wireless networking created something of a conundrum within most enterprise IT organizations. Most of them already had sophisticated tools and policies in place to manage wired networks. Wireless networks required not only a separate set of tools to manage, but more often than not, dedicated networking specialists. At the Cisco Live! event […]

One of the more time-consuming tasks within any IT organization is managing Apple Macintosh systems, especially in environments where the dominant system in use is Microsoft Windows. In a move that should make Apple Macintosh systems more palatable to the IT department, Parallels today released Parallels Management, a plug-in for Microsoft System Center Configuration Management […]

Almost every week now we’re starting to see significant gains in capacity and performance when it comes to deploying Flash memory in the enterprise. The latest example is the unveiling today of a 2TB solid-state disk drive from STEC that can be attached to a PCIe slot on a server or attached to a storage […]