Mike Vizard

IT security these days is roughly equivalent to running a counter-intelligence service that tries to identify behavioral anomalies that may signal a compromised asset. Of course, in order to be able to do that within the context of IT, an organization needs to be able to first identify what is actual normal behavior for any […]

One of the fundamental problems with project management software in general is that tracking projects is one thing and actually managing them is another. According to Mike Sicilia, senior vice president and general manager for Oracle Primavera, as project management software continues to evolve, the one thing we should expect to see is a lot […]

Everyone knows that when it comes to reading data, a solid-state drive is lightning fast. But when it comes to writing data within, for example, a transaction-processing application, performance drops off considerably. Marvell Technology today announced that it has cracked the code on that particular problem. To be shown publicly for the first time next […]

As the New Year begins, now is as good a time as any to remember why organizations continue to invest in IT. In fact, much of the answer to that question can be found in a recent three-year study conducted by the IT services firm Capgemini in conjunction with the MIT Center for Digital Business. […]

Following the holidays, just about everybody who can come up with a plausible excuse for owning a mobile computing device probably has one by now. The next challenge is figuring out what IT organizations can do with all those devices beyond simply allowing employees to access their email. Arguably, what has to happen next is […]

Regardless of the size of the organization, managing data has become a problem that requires a combination of technologies to handle primary, secondary and now tertiary storage requirements. Looking to address the needs of secondary and tertiary storage requirements, Imation today announced it has acquired Nexsan, a provider of storage systems that are most commonly […]

One of the more potentially revolutionary technologies that will have a profound impact on the enterprise in 2013 is the rise of in-memory computing. While most everyone agrees that more database and application logic will be running in-memory in 2013, no one is quite sure what the impact on disk-based storage systems is going to […]

While many CIOs continue to wrestle with their relevancy in the cloud, a new survey of 327 business executives and CIOs conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Host Analytics, a provider of financial management applications delivered as a service, finds that CIOs in general are starting to see more value in cloud computing than […]

There is always a lot of focus at the end of the year on the impact — or lack thereof — of one technology or another. But the thing that is most often overlooked is the relevance of the people and processes. The simple fact is that most new technology doesn’t live up to its […]

They say there is no rest for either the weary or the wicked. When it comes to IT security, it looks like 2013 will be no exception. The researchers at McAfee Labs have compiled a list of security threats that IT organizations are likely to encounter in the coming year. They include: Mobile worms that […]

By now, most people in IT have at least heard the term “Big Data” and are familiar with the fundamental concepts. What they may not fully appreciate just yet is how much is at stake from a business perspective. As data is increasingly seen as a resource that businesses need to exploit better, it’s only […]

There’s almost no doubt that software-defined networks (SDNs) will be one of the dominant IT themes of 2013. After all, replacing command-line interfaces with applications that can be used to automate the management of networking equipment has some obvious benefits. The challenge is that there will be many flavors of SDNs, ranging from proprietary implementations […]