Mike Vizard

One of the maxims in business is that you can't manage what you can't measure. Yet in the land of IT, we have all kinds of equipment in use that senior IT

The real challenge that the move toward private cloud computing presents is that it will force IT organizations to finally get their internal management

One of the biggest segments of people buying iPadsfrom Apple tends to be people working in IT. It's not clear how much of this is due to geek chic factor

One of the biggest problems with IT process automation is that it's hard to do. Between setting up the systems and actually figuring out what to automate

One of the primary tenets of cloud computing is that it assumes there is plenty of low-cost bandwidth to go around. And yet when we take a look around the

There's a lot of discussion of late about the right way to integrate disparate cloud computing services. Some of the approaches rely on an appliance

There's an old maxim that says things measured are things down. The trouble with storage is that there hasn't been a whole lot of measuring going on.After

For a long time, the prevailing wisdom of the day has been that IT organizations were better off with dumb pipes. After all, the applications should be

Obviously there is a lot of concern over the state of cloud computing security for both the applications and the platforms they run on. But one thing that

The whole concept of IT process automation makes a tremendous amount of sense on paper. In reality, fears over what IT automation means to IT jobs,

With the annual Tech-Ed conference being held this week, there's obviously a lot of speculation about how well Microsoft is doing pushing its Hyper-V

Everybody knows that one of the primary next frontiers of cloud computing is delivering rich applications.Unfortunately, delivering those applications is