Mike Vizard

There's an old saying that roughly goes: With small children come small problems. Big children, on the other hand, come with big problems.So too it is

There's a lot of talk about elastic data and the rise of private cloud computing based on new dynamic data center architectures. The generally accepted

The common virtualization wisdom of the day is that IT organizations can save money by consolidating physical servers. But nothing in IT is ever free, and

As interest in the open source Hadoop framework for managing large amounts of data has grown, the one vendor in the data management space that has been

There is a debate over how much WAN optimization solutions need to rely on hardware versus software-only approaches, and how much of this technology can

In cloud computing, one of the most important technologies in the IBM arsenal might turn out to be a set of code that is over 10 years old.The IBM General

There's a lot of chatter in IT circles these days about the amount of power being consumed. In fact, some projections suggest that IT will consume as much

One of the biggest challenges with virtualization is simply the process of managing all the requests to provision and de-provision virtual machines.As

For years, IT organizations have been conditioned to think of managing IT in terms of horizontal slices of technology. That's led to the creation of

One of the challenges with cloud computing storage is that most of the services out there are not particularly aware of any given application. For

In the last few months, we've seen the rise of virtual appliances that allow IT organizations to eliminate the need for many physical appliances. Most

Capacity planning use to be one of those mundane IT activities that most organizations worried about once or twice a year. But with virtualization, the