Mike Vizard

Cisco is out trying to stir up a revolution concerning what users should come to expect in the way of wireless access that should have a profound effect on IT departments everywhere. Speaking at the Interop 2011 conference in New York today, Sujai Hajela, vice president and general manager for Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business unit, […]

Moving to a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) in the cloud shouldn’t be an unnatural act for developers. And yet time and again, providers of PaaS want developers to make specific adjustments to their code so that it can run in their environments. At the JavaOne conference today, Hivext Technologies plans to confront this issue directly with the […]

A lot of IT organizations are moving in fits and starts toward building their own private clouds largely through ongoing efforts to virtualize their server environments. But as IT organizations continue down that path, many of them are discovering that they’ve put too much emphasis on the server aspects of cloud computing when it turns out that […]

There’s a debate in network circles these days about the future of Ethernet switches that is roughly equivalent to the argument between VHS and Betamax that took place when video cassette recorders first came to market. On the one side is a group of networking vendors that support an emerging IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging […]

Now that Microsoft has formally endorsed virtualization on the client as part of the Windows 8 operating system, a lot of IT organizations are going to be spending a fair amount of time analyzing the implications of the move as it applies to their overall virtualization strategy. We’re already seeing Microsoft gain virtualization ground on […]

When it comes to the security of cloud computing, there’s obviously a lot to be concerned about. But for all the talk about cloud security there hasn’t been much discussion about how to actually make managing security in the cloud a whole lot easier. At the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference, the folks at Dome9 Security […]

There’s no question that the amount of data that needs to be managed is spiraling out of control, which is starting to put a lot pressure on the underlying databases used to manage all this information. Sybase, a unit of SAP, says it is rising to meet that challenge with the release today of version […]

There’s no doubt that Oracle faces a substantial challenge when it comes to competing against both VMware and Microsoft in the virtualization category. But with the release of version 3.0 of Oracle VM and some major shifts in virtual machine adoption, Oracle is betting that it will soon gain a fair amount of momentum in […]

Wide area network (WAN) optimization seems to be a technology that just about every IT organization needs to one degree or another. But for one reason or another, a lot of IT organizations don’t deploy any WAN optimization solutions at all. One reason for this may come down simply to cost, which is a theory […]

One of the challenges that IT organizations routinely face is that for any number of reasons someone may accidentally or purposefully alter the way a particular server is configured. Inevitably, those changes wind up creating a definite compliance issue and a potential security problem, so what many IT organizations really need is a simple tool […]

Configuration errors even in the best of times are the bane of IT existence. As IT environments have become more complex thanks to the advent of virtualization and cloud computing,the opportunity to misconfigure any number of devices has exponentially increased. To help IT organizations deal with that issue, Juniper Networks today at the VMworld 2011 […]

It seems like with the introduction of any new set of technologies we see a sudden rise in the interest of high availability. The concept of high availability has been around since the dawn of the mainframe, but when there are new technologies and delivery models in play, such as virtualization and cloud computing, it […]