Mike Vizard

Besides death and taxes there appear to be at least two other things that businesses can count on in 2013. The number of times someone loses data or someone tries to steal data on those devices will increase along with the penalties attached for failing to comply with any number of regulations that in one […]

As employees begin to arrive back to work following the holidays, an increasing number of IT organizations are going to find out just how limited their wireless networks really are in the age of BYOD. Most wireless networks were deployed as secondary networks that were intended to support a limited number of devices. Going into […]

With the rise of cloud computing and the advent of virtualization, the pressure on storage systems has never been greater. Throw in a healthy mix of Big Data applications in 2013, and it quickly becomes apparent that most existing storage systems will soon not be up to the task. For that reason, the folks at […]

Tomorrow, employees of your organization will most likely be opening Christmas presents and with absolute certainty many of them are going to receive Apple iPads from their loved ones. And with just as much certainty, they are going to return to the office in the next few days looking to not only connect those devices […]

If 2012 is any indication of things to come, 2013 will be the year that IT organizations start implementing significantly more comprehensive approaches to managing security. According to Steve Robinson, vice president of worldwide development for strategy and product management within the newly formed IBM security systems division, roughly half the customers that IBM deals […]

With the acquisition of ManageIQ for $104 million this week, Red Hat is signaling that its cloud ambitions go way beyond Linux. ManageIQ adds a suite of IT management software to the Red Hat portfolio capable of managing virtual machines from Red Hat, VMware and Microsoft running on both Windows and Linux platforms. According to […]

As a practical matter, when it comes to authentication, Microsoft Active Directory rules the data center roost. As such, when it comes to cloud computing, almost every conversation about moving an application into the cloud almost inevitably comes back to how to manage authentication because most IT organizations don’t want to manage two or more […]

IT Organizations Gain Cloud Computing Confidence There are still a lot of issues that IT organizations need to address as far as cloud computing is concerned, not the least of which are security and governance. But as thorny as those issues might be, it’s also clear that the compelling economics afforded by cloud computing are […]

A lot of issues surround data management, ranging from the simple cost of storing it to actually trying to treat it like the valuable asset it is. The trouble is that not only are there multiple instances of data strewn throughout the enterprise, nobody is sure what data is stored where. To address these issues, […]

Given the image of salespeople popularized in iconic plays such as Glengarry Glen Ross, it is more than understandable how some people might think that the average salesperson is motivated solely by compensation. In reality, salespeople, like other employees, have career goals and aspirations, none of which are addressed in the typical customer relationship management […]

Building and testing applications in the age of the cloud is becoming increasingly complex. Not only are applications more integrated with each other, testing applications that are dependent on other applications is nearly impossible when most of those services are being run in production environments often managed by a third party. To address this issue, […]

While it’s one thing to give users a mobile computing device, it’s quite another to actually manage mobile computing at scale. As mobile computing becomes more pervasive across the enterprise, it’s pretty clear that the introduction of mobile computing devices is only the tip of the iceberg. IT organizations in 2013 are going to find […]