Mike Vizard

The good news is that there is a lot talk about standards as it relates to cloud computing these days. The bad news is that a lot vendors are talking to a

With that advent of new architectures such as the Westmere-class of Nehalem processors from Intel and extensions to the amount of memory that is available

Onee of the more exasberating things about mobile computing in the enterprise over the years has been all the hidden cost associated with integrating

In tough economic times such as these, there is always added pressure to reduce IT costs. One of the first things that many IT organizations decide to do

With the acquisition of Boomi this week to add middleware services in the cloud, Dell is signaling its intent to compete across the spectrum of public and

Since the joint venture was first formed, the world has not heard too much from Huawei Symantec, the company that was formed via an alliance between these

The way companies tend to operate when it comes to developing new products is changing in two fundamental ways.The first is that IT, and especially

Assuming that, by definition, all cloud computing is going to be hybrid, IT organizations need an effective way to manage virtual and physical systems

There's an old saying that reminds people that you can't manage what you can't see.The trouble with managing IT is that there are a lot of ways to view

One of the challenges that Microsoft faces in competing with VMware in the enterprise is the substantial technology lead that VMware enjoys over

In golf, there is this quaint concept called the Mulligan. Players allow one another one chance during a round of golf to take a tee shot that has gone

Whenever we think about optimization it's usually in the context of maximizing a scarce resource. For example, in the case of wide area networks, we have