Mike Vizard

There’s a lot to rightfully complain about when it comes to data management. Most IT organizations don’t really have any effective data management policies in place, which generally results in low utilization rates of expensive primary storage systems. The real question is who is at fault here because of this. A lot of folks will […]

It’s only natural to compare and contrast what has happened recently with what has gone before, but more often than not that analysis proves to be faulty. Much of the conversation these days following the announcement of the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google has focused on what this means for all the handset […]

The problem many IT organizations have when it comes to managing IT is that they either don’t have enough tools or suffer from having an excess of tools. In both cases, the outcome is generally the same in that the IT organization is not particularly efficient. IT organizations that don’t have ready access to commercial […]

As more IT organizations migrate towards cloud computing, they are finding that managing this environment is particularly challenging because they lack end-to-end visibility into the network. They can see everything happening in their own network, but once the cloud service they are trying to manage needs to be extended across a network managed by a […]

When it comes to mobile computing these days, the conventional wisdom is that IT organizations are going to have to support the native capabilities of various mobile computing platforms alongside HTML5, which will be used to develop applications on the Web. The reasoning behind that logic is that platforms such as the Apple iPhone or […]

Scaling out storage is all the rage these days, largely because customers have grown tired of having to pay for storage they are not using in advance. The issue that many IT organizations don’t understand, says Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready, is how dynamic some of the so-called scale-out storage architectures may or may not […]

One of the things that a lot of IT organizations don’t like about virtualization is that the applications that run on virtual machines are often invisible to their monitoring tools. This creates a lot of consternation in an age where the confidence IT organizations have in running mission-critical applications on virtual servers is still not […]

One of the fundamental issues with distributed computing has been that in order to scale any application, it generally requires the addition of another server. But deploying that server obviously takes a fair amount of time to provision, which tends to make distributed computing a little cumbersome. A new startup called Translattice wants to make […]

One of the good things about difficult economic times is that IT organizations tend to get a lot more practical. In many instances that practicality tends to reduce the temptation to reinvent the wheel. And in the case of Java it seems to be manifesting itself in increased usage all the way from mobile computing […]

There are some major changes taking place at the edge of the network these days that could have a profound effect on the way the flow of data is managed across the data center. Riverbed Technology earlier this week acquired Zeus Technology, a provider of application delivery controllers, also known as load balancers, which puts […]

The problem with middleware these days is that it’s everywhere. It seems like every time that more than two applications need to be integrated, a piece of middleware has been deployed to handle the task. The trouble is that this has led to a lot of middleware sprawl because most of these middleware deployments are […]

Over the years, tools for managing various elements of the software stack have emerged, resulting in a plethora of tools that required dedicated specialists to manage. And yet, as IT management matures, the interdependencies between various elements of the software stack are becoming clearer. As a result, IT organizations are looking for more holistic approaches […]