Mike Vizard

The rise of virtualization continues to put more pressure than ever on shared storage resources. Basically, more servers, both virtual and physical, are

When IT is done right, it should be boring. Unfortunately, enterprise IT is anything but. Because of poor system design and a lack of processes, we

Slowly but surely, data storage is starting to become unified. Instead of having dedicated storage arrays for each device, we're starting to see a world

There's a war on over which of these two approaches will eventually come to dominate enterprise computing. Most of the arguments involve control and

When most vendors today talk about cloud computing, they talk about infrastructure and applications as almost separate entities. But in the real world, IT

One of the things that far too many IT executives don't like to talk about is the strong-arm sales tactics that some of the major vendors will resort to

To listen to all the marketing hype surrounding unified communications, you might think getting these applications to work is easy. But given the

One thing that has become more apparent in the past year is how critical IP addresses have become for various applications. Whether it's for Web

Not too long ago, during the early days of client/server computing when application performance was so dependent on the network, we used to talk about

There's always been a war of words and counter claims between the major server vendors. But as of late, the numbers would suggest that the battle has been

Intelligence, much like information, wants to be distributed as much as possible. So when it comes to wireless networks, the question is, why is so much

If the history of computing is defined by moving the I/O bottleneck from processor to network to storage, then we're in an age where the system bottleneck