Mike Vizard

The Rise of Integrated IT Infrastructure Systems: Top Enterprise Use Cases At a ChefConf 2016 conference today, Chef announced that it will make it simpler for IT organizations to acquire a wide range of open source technologies designed to automate everything from the way machines are configured to the entire application. Rather than having to […]

5 Steps for Proactive Cyber Risk Management As part of an ongoing effort to transform the way IT is managed from the network on up, this week Cisco extended the reach of its integrated management framework into the realm of IT security. This week, Cisco announced Cisco Defense Orchestrator service, a cloud-based approach to managing […]

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization Slowly but surely, new types of conversational user interfaces such as Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Cortana from Microsoft are transforming the way consumers interact with applications. Now Sisense is moving to apply those interfaces to its business intelligence application as part of […]

Navigating Your Way Through an IT Road Map One of the more vexing challenges facing IT organizations today is the proliferation of both physical and virtual networks. All those additional networks do wonders for connectivity. But from a complexity perspective, they often make the IT organization less agile. To reduce that complexity, Glue Networks today […]

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 There are more programming languages in use than ever before. That creates some significant challenges when it comes to monitoring all the applications developed using that broad array of languages. Starting today, New Relic is adding to the support it already provides for Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python […]

Navigating Your Way Through an IT Road Map When it comes to providing customer support, most organizations are somewhat conflicted. On the one hand, they clearly see engaging with customers as an opportunity to sell them additional products. On the other hand, the cost of providing that customer support is still often viewed as a […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know While true hybrid cloud computing remains largely a gleam in the eye of most IT professionals, most IT organizations are now routinely dealing with multiple clouds. Instead of pouring all their application workloads into one public cloud platform, they are mixing and matching them based on their […]

Digital Integration: Overcoming Enterprise Data Challenges Open source software has had a profound impact on just about every aspect of IT, with the notable exception of storage. Open Source Storage is aiming to change that with the unveiling this week of a 3u storage appliance capable of providing access to up to 16TB of storage […]

The Rise of Integrated IT Infrastructure Systems: Top Enterprise Use Cases When it comes to hyperconverged infrastructure many IT organizations are looking for the path of least resistance. For many of them, that means opting for a software-driven approach that can be deployed on any standard x86 server instead of having to acquire new systems […]

The Rise of Integrated IT Infrastructure Systems: Top Enterprise Use Cases Just about every application of any consequence these days is highly distributed and, as such, is likely to interact in some way with routers from Cisco. ThousandEyes today announced that its network performance monitoring (NPM) software can now use Linux containers to monitor Cisco […]

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization Thanks to the proliferation of open source code, there are more options than ever for developing applications. Keeping track of the potential licensing issues associated with all the dependencies that exist in that software is a whole other matter. To address that issue, FOSSA, a provider of […]

Multi-Cloud 101: 7 Things You Need to Know For all the chatter these days surrounding the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT), one of the most fundamental use cases for these technologies is going to be inside rather than outside of the data center. A case is point is Schneider Electric’s new StruxureOn cloud […]