Mike Vizard

As more IT organizations get comfortable with the definition of cloud computing, the one thing that becomes apparent is that there is no one single best way to go about achieving it. In some cases, deploying application workloads on public cloud services makes the most amount of sense. In other cases, that application workload because […]

As the number of Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) deployed in the enterprise increases, so, too, do the challenges associated with managing them. When Cisco first rolled out UCS, it concentrated on making the system easy to manage. Now Cisco is focusing more on making it easier to manage multiple UCS systems over an extended […]

Managing storage has always been more complicated than most IT organizations would prefer. That situation, unfortunately, has only gotten worse. Even small-to-medium business (SMB) organizations are finding themselves inundated with massive amounts of data that now come in a multitude of formats. Hewlett-Packard today moved to help SMB organizations iaddress that issue with the launch […]

One of the reasons that storage is so expensive to manage in the enterprise is it requires a dedicated administrator and each different type of storage system typically requires a specialist to manage. That level of complexity makes storage increasingly cost-prohibitive to manage as the number and size of all the data types continue to […]

There’s no doubt that enterprise applications are getting more social with each passing day; the challenge is finding a way to provide a common layer of social software that can be invoked by multiple applications. SAP this week took a crack at solving that very problem with the release of SAP Jam and SAP Social […]

The 13 Scariest Things in IT for 2012 Fear stems from a loss of control. People only become scared when they become powerless to influence the course of events, which obviously causes a sense of dread when no one knows what’s going to happen next on any given day. Arguably, 2012 has been a year […]

When it comes to IT, there are plenty of things that can go bump in the night, but the 13 scariest things in IT for 2012 just might be the most frightening of all. Click through for the 13 scariest things in IT for 2012. There are now thousands of potential devices and applications looking […]

As tablets running variants of Windows 8 begin to find their way into the enterprise with every other mobile computing device, IT organizations are more challenged than ever in terms of managing all them. Now that there are multiple instances of a credible Windows tablet, there’s one less reason to try and stop end users […]

As the number of cores per processor coupled with the amount of memory on those processors continue to increase, it’s only a matter of time before developers routinely make greater use of in-memory computing. The simple fact of the matter is that the fewer times an application needs to make calls to disk-based storage system, […]

While there is a lot of talk these days about using open source technologies in the cloud, there is still a long way to go before those technologies see mainstream adoption. A survey of 600 IT professionals conducted by Zenoss, a provider of software for managing IT operations in the data center, found that while […]

With Hurricane Sandy slamming into the East Coast, interest in business continuity services that are based on virtual instances of applications invoked in minutes via the cloud should rise significantly. In fact, many expect that as the cost of these services drops, increased usage of these services will come at the expense of traditional backup […]

Conventional wisdom holds that in order to build a real virtual data center you’ll need to wait for a vendor such as VMware to fill out its IT management portfolio, or upgrade to new integrated servers from Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM or Dell. But a startup company called Yottabyte, starting today, is making the case for […]