Mike Vizard

One of the primary reasons that a small business succeeds is that it’s typically more nimble and agile than a large company, which accounts for why two out of every three news jobs created is done by a small business. From an IT perspective, however, the vast majority of those small businesses are relying on […]

Just because IT organizations do things one way on premise doesn’t necessarily mean they should use the same approach in the cloud. One of the problems that IT organizations have today with agility is the simple fact that the application development and deployment process, otherwise known as DevOps, is too fragmented to easily manage. Cloud […]

The trouble with most of the conversation surrounding analytics these days is that the assumption is that the goal is to generate some sort of report containing brilliant insights. While that’s certainly desirable, what most businesses really want is to use that insight to automate a particular business process in a way that allows the […]

At the Amazon Web Services re: Invent conference today, all the buzz was about a move by Amazon to create a data warehouse in the cloud, dubbed Redshift, that promises to manage petabytes of data at a fraction of the cost of an on-premise system. Hoping to take advantage of that Redshift service, Jaspersoft announced […]

One of the issues that enterprise IT organizations have with any platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering is that moving application workloads between their internal systems and the PaaS environment can be both complicated and cumbersome. As a result, the PaaS environment winds up introducing a lot of DevOps issues that lead many organizations to conclude that PaaS […]

As businesses become more dependent on IT than ever, the line between IT and business operations is becoming indistinguishable. The simple fact is that IT to one degree or another is being used to control almost every business process. As such, the management tools used to manage IT and those business processes need to converge. […]

With Amazon becoming a more dominant provider of cloud computing services, it’s only a matter of time before most IT organizations wind up managing an application workload running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The question is to what degree will they want to adjust their on-premise IT operations to accommodate that new reality? The folks […]

From an IT perspective, one of the more subtle aspects of cloud computing is the degree to which it changes the way business processes are managed across the enterprise. In the past, business processes consisted of applications that were stitched together using middleware. The reason for this is that each application had access to a […]

There’s no doubt that the last year has been one of the most challenging inside and out of IT in recent memory. Nevertheless, even in the most trying of times there are still plenty of IT things to be thankful for, the top ten of which we’ve identified in this slideshow. The good news is […]

Top Ten IT Things to be Thankful For in 2012 Thanksgiving in the U.S. traces its history back to the Puritans who survived disease and hostile attacks from the native North American population long enough to give thanks to Providence before returning to various tasks at hand. Although not faced with the same dire consequences, […]

While most developers conceptually take to agile development methodologies fairly quickly, getting them to function like a cohesive team is quite another matter. Not only are most developers fairly independent, the nature of agile development makes it easy for one developer to rush ahead of the others. Given all the dependencies between all the different […]

One of the primary reasons that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings are finding it hard to gain traction in the enterprise is that internal IT organizations don’t feel like they have any visibility into or control over these IT resources. Developers may be thrilled that they can get access to IT infrastructure resources on demand, but IT […]