Mike Vizard

Five Best Practices for Securing Private Clouds Regardless of how relevant cloud security actually is in terms of making the move to cloud computing, the fact remains that it’s a concern for many organizations. To help make those organizations more comfortable with cloud computing, IBM this week announced that it has partnered with AT&T to […]

In theory at least it’s a legitimate concern: A congressional committee has published a report that essentially accuses Huawei and ZTE of being agents of the Chinese government that might be embedding spyware and other forms of malicious code inside products they sell to companies in the U.S. Unfortunately, the evidence provided in the report […]

Depending on your perspective, the Apple iPad is either one of the greatest innovations of all time, or the best con game ever perpetrated. There’s no doubt that people have a major appetite for a mobile computing device that allows them to quickly and easily consume large amounts of content. But the idea that somehow […]

Cisco has become the latest server vendor to jump on the SAP in-memory computing bandwagon. The two companies today announced that SAP’s High Performance Analytics Appliance (HANA) software will now run on Unified Computing System (UCS) servers from Cisco. Cisco joins IBM, HP and Dell in offering servers that run in-memory databases that have the […]

VMware has been amassing an arsenal of IT management wares over the last several years that it is now using to extend its reach well beyond its core virtual machine platform. At the VMworld Europe 2012 conference, VMware today announced additions to the VMware vCloud Suite that now includes VMware vCloud Automation suite 5.1, which […]

One thing that holds back innovation in both the mobile computing space specifically and the machine-to-machine area in general is that it’s hard to imagine a world where wireless bandwidth isn’t difficult to come by. As a result, the types of applications that can be developed are being limited by the amount of bandwidth available […]

One of the biggest wastes of time in enterprise IT is the never-ending battle to keep applications in sync with firewalls. With more applications being rolled out faster than ever before, each new application or update has the potential to change the settings on a firewall. Multiply the number of application updates by the number […]

As a scarce resource, the need to optimize the use of bandwidth across a wide area network (WAN) has always been apparent. But it was only with drive to consolidate servers that WAN optimization became a critical enterprise issue. The rise of cloud computing further increases the need for WAN optimization. The good news is […]

Despite all the hype, unified communications (UC) hasn’t lived up its promise of being a transformational technology and it probably won’t until it’s delivered via the cloud as a service. That’s the basic conclusion Shoretel CEO Peter Blackmore came to during a speech delivered at the ITEXPO West conference this week. Even with the latest […]

On average, IBM is predicting that companies will develop 25 mobile computing applications over the next two years, and the number of transactions being generated by mobile computing devices will increase 50 percent by the end of the year. Speaking at the ITEXPO West conference this week, Mike Riegel, IBM vice president of marketing for […]

To one degree or another, mobile and cloud computing combined are exacerbating an already fractious IT management environment. Too many IT organizations already have a plethora of IT management tools in place. The addition of mobile and cloud computing applications only winds up adding more tools to an already noxious mix. At the Interop 2012 […]

When it comes to cloud computing, the issue is not so much the technology, but rather the readiness of the IT organization. Most IT organizations in larger enterprises are still pretty much split between server, networking and storage domains that rarely move in lockstep with one another. Cloud computing essentially consolidates those functions in a […]