Mike Vizard

There's always a gap between what's theoretically interesting from an IT perspective versus what the market actually accepts. While just about everybody

One question that keeps coming up as of late concerns the quality of open source software. While there's no doubt that there is more dependency on open

The big issue with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is that it has developed a reputation for being costly when it comes to the amount of storage and

One of the issues that IT organizations have with Google Android is the amount of investment they have put into building and deploying Windows

There's nothing particularly new about having to integrate applications built using diverse programming models. What is changing is the venue where that

Every now and again you can look over the horizon and see two trends that will one day intersect to transform the way we think about IT. Two of those

As the price of memory continues to fall and the number of processors on a chip increases, the way the IT industry thinks about building servers is slowly

One of the more challenging things about virtualization is the simple fact that virtual machines can move. That means that a virtual machine that was once

There are a multitude of new programming languages in the world these days, but most of them have a limited following among classic enterprise IT

One of things that has always troubled IT organizations is the latency issues associated with accessing any application running on a public cloud

Right at this moment no one is quite exactly sure how storage systems in the data center are going to exactly evolve. There are a multitude of competing

As virtualization technologies become more a part of the mainstream fabric of IT, issues that previously were not that big of a concern are now starting