Mike Vizard

If you get the sense that we've entered a period of pregnant pause as it relates to cloud computing in the enterprise, it might have something to do with

When most people talk about hybrid cloud computing, they are talking about the integration of on-premise IT assets and a third-party cloud computing

There are profound changes taking place in the data centerthat promise to alter the balance of vendor power as we know it today. At the heart of those

There's no doubt that as the amounts of data needed to be managed continue to spiral out of control, there's a need to optimize limited storage resources.

With much fanfare, we witnessed the recent creation of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), which is a consortium that has been created to promote the

When it comes to high-end storage, there is a lot of built-in automation and support for things like parallel processing that allows these systems

The conventional wisdom surrounding the open-source MySQL database is that it can't really be used in production environments that either require high

As enterprise IT evolves, it's pretty clear we're entering a new age of specialization around different types of application workloads. Rather than

The problem with data storage today can be summarized by our inability to easily store the right data in the right place at the right time. That

Too many IT organizations are finding that their data management strategies are held hostage by the limitations of their existing file systems. In order

IT systems, especially log files, collect data all day long. Finding something meaningful in a log file and then being able to do something useful with it

The problem with trying to compete around a core competency in the data center is that everybody pretty much uses a variant of the same basic