Mike Vizard

Business Leaders Starting to Exert More Cloud Control As organizations get more comfortable with cloud computing, something interesting is starting to take place. A new survey of 146 business and IT leaders conducted by Capgemini finds that business people are starting to play a much stronger role in selecting what cloud computing platforms and applications […]

One of the best things about external cloud computing resources is that it makes accessing resources to run compute-intensive applications more affordable. The downside is that approach can introduce latency that can have an adverse impact on application performance. Hoping to strike the right balance between those two issues, Autodesk has begun beta testing AutoCAD […]

There’s something fundamentally wrong with the way organizations think about IT security. Instead of figuring out a way to make sure malware never gets a chance to infect our systems, most of our efforts are focused on trying to prevent malware from getting onto the system in the first place. But Bromium CTO Simon Crosby […]

Because storage is hardware, IT organizations are conditioned to think that the technology that manages storage should reside on a specific piece of hardware dedicated to that task. But as general-purpose processors become increasingly faster, it’s become a lot more feasible to run the storage system management software on the server. That’s the thinking behind […]

Like it or not, IT organizations need to come to terms with some new realities. They can either continue to manage IT the way they always have and slowly, but surely, watch providers of cloud services take over the tasks they currently manage; or they can seek to strike the right balance between modern IT […]

Interest in Software-Defined Networking Rising Sharply While it’s clear that software-defined networking (SDN) as a technology remains somewhere between the leading and bleeding edge, that doesn’t mean IT organizations are not making fairly aggressive plans to implement it. A new survey of 110 IT executives conducted by Silver Peak Systems, a provider of wide-area network […]

Most wireless networks in the enterprise were deployed as secondary networks. The thought was that users would primarily be using the wired network from either their desktop or notebook. But as new classes of mobile computing devices such as the Apple iPad start to access the wireless network, IT organizations are starting to discover that […]

While there’s no doubt that Hewlett-Packard’s information management strategy surrounding Big Data has taken quite a drubbing in recent weeks following allegations of fraud within the HP Autonomy business unit, the fact remains that technologies such as the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) software from Autonomy, along with the SQL-based Vertica analytics databases that HP […]

As organizations continue to struggle with the sheer volume of data coming into the enterprise, it’s no secret that storing all that data is a problem that continues to fester. Not only is storage consuming an unacceptably larger percentage of the IT budget, as the amount of data on those systems increases the actual performance […]

Managing enterprise IT has never been as easy as it should be. Most of the systems that support any application must be managed manually and there’s not a whole lot of clarity when it comes to understanding the dependencies between applications and multiple IT infrastructure components. Theoretically, virtualization was supposed to make things better. But […]

At a Minds and Machines 2012 conference this week, GE released the results of an economic study that says the potential economic benefit from the investment in the “Internet of Things” would add trillions of dollars in value to the gross domestic product (GDP) on a global basis. The challenge is finding a way to […]

Technically, cloud computing is supposed to refer to instances of software running on multi-tenant systems. In reality, the definition of “The Cloud” has been steadily expanding to include any application running outside a customer’s data center. In fact, it’s not all that uncommon for an organization to start out looking for a cloud solution only […]