Mike Vizard

One of the major challenges with platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is simply finding a way to actually bring what amounts to a new paradigm for building and managing applications into the enterprise. Most of the providers of PaaS have a fairly regimented approach to application development that enterprise IT organizations are supposed to adopt. There’s no doubt […]

Like it or not, IT operations are going to be under more scrutiny than ever. As energy consumption in the data center becomes a more controversial issue and business executives come to realize the crucial role data centers play in their daily operations, business leaders want to better understand the forces at work. After all, […]

Now that The New York Times has weighed in somewhat belatedly on the whole issue of energy consumption in massive data centers, it will be interesting to see what becomes of the fallout from the controversy created by that coverage. There’s no doubt that the report left much to be desired in terms of accuracy. […]

Most health care organizations are desperate to cut costs, which should naturally lead them to rely more on cloud computing services provided by third-party providers. In reality, however, hardly any health care organizations are taking advantage of cloud computing services for fear of violating the privacy and security regulations as codified in the Health Insurance […]

When the rap star Jay-Z takes the stage tomorrow night to open the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., thousands of fans will simultaneously start launching photos and video feeds on any number of social networking sites. If they have a bad experience doing that, chances are more than a few of those fans are […]

A lot of businesses get the concept that business processes are inherently social. It’s figuring out how to socialize those business processes with each other that’s the hard part. TIBCO Software at its TUCON 2012 conference this week moved to address that with the launch of a Social Graph API that comes with the latest […]

While there is still much to be desired in the way of true interoperability in the cloud, there is still a significant amount of progress being made. The latest step forward involves the formation of The OpenStack Foundation, which is charged with building a consensus around how the management of cloud computing should evolve. While […]

Necessity is often the mother of invention, so when it comes to managing Big Data these days, it shouldn’t be surprising to discover that a lot of organizations are relying more on their own initiative. A perfect example of that initiative is a new open source project that makes available a new file system for […]

Once upon a time, midmarket IT organizations faced distinctly different challenges from their larger enterprise IT brethren. But as IT continues to get more complex, midmarket IT organizations are now facing the same IT challenges as any large IT organization with the exception of one important attribute: less money. To address that issue, we’re starting […]

There’s a lot of debate these days over scale-out versus scale-up IT architectures that stems from a debate that began with symmetrical multiprocessing systems back in the 1980s. As it was then, the debate itself is being pushed by vendors that have platforms optimized for one computing scenario versus another. In reality, IT organizations have […]

Given the number of access points that IT organizations are now being asked to manage, it only makes sense that there be a more centralized approach to managing wireless networks. To address that specific issue, Aruba Networks today rolled out Aruba Instant Enterprise, a new software release that allows IT organizations to manage a network […]

The two biggest reasons that cloud computing adoption is proceeding at a relatively slow pace is that it’s expensive to deploy and difficult to manage. For the most part, cloud computing requires IT organizations to deploy new systems specifically designed to support cloud computing. And then it turns out they need new processes and tools […]