Mike Vizard

While there is a lot of interest in desktop virtualization, one of the things that holds a lot of IT organizations back is that desktop virtualization, in

On the face of it, SAP's move to acquire Sybasefor $5.8 billion comes across as being roughly equivalent to buying the cow when the milk is relatively

You wouldn't know it to look at them, but operating systems are wasting away. The reason for this slow, but inevitable, thinning of the operating system

Suddenly, data management is red hot thanks to the advent of private cloud computing. After being seen as an elite discipline dominated mainly by database

As more IT organizations become familiar with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), many of them have begun to understand the inherent limitations of VDI

There are a lot of arguments today over just what defines elasticity in the cloud. Among some of the more devout adherents of cloud computing, the data

IBM's announcement of its plans to acquire Cast Iron Systemsthrows a spotlight on what may be described best as a paradoxical approach to cloud

When it comes to private cloud computing these days, there's a lot of bluster in the air. In fact, it seems like every time you turn around there is yet

Although there is a lot of talk these days about storage unificationin the form of bringing together storage area networks (SANs) and network attached

Application decomposition may not sound like a desirable thing, but as cloud computing evolves, it will become a more common enterprise application

For a long time now, Juniper Networks has been making a case for high-performance networking equipment, many in the form of routers. But in recent months,

As it becomes more apparent with each passing day that the network is now the I/O bus, a question starts to emerge as to whether the network is becoming