Mike Vizard

5 Hidden Costs of Cloud Backup There’s no doubt that IT interest in all things cloud is running high, but turning cloud computing theory into everyday IT reality can be a major challenge. To help IT organizations make that transition, TSO Logic today added a Cloud Enablement module to its suite of data center optimization […]

Tech Security: Here’s How to Rein in Shadow IT Moving to help IT organizations get a better handle on shadow IT in the enterprise, Cisco today unfurled a new service that analyzes log data to determine exactly what cloud services are being consumed by whom inside any organization. Bob Dimicco, senior director of advanced services […]

Top Resolutions for IT Teams in 2016 Coming off the holiday season, many organizations are understandably reviewing the performance of their mobile and Web applications in 2015. With that in mind, Dynatrace has released a Dynatrace Load tool that now includes the ability to test synthetic workloads before an application is deployed in production. While […]

How to Manage Multiple Cloud Relationships One of the first use cases that most organizations have for the cloud involves some form of data protection. Rather than invest in a massive amount of infrastructure to house data that will be rarely accessed, many organizations prefer to take advantage of low-cost cloud services. With that in […]

2016 Software Trends: The Evolution of Enterprise Software As a general rule, there’s a lot more interest in IT automation than actual usage. While many IT organizations would like to automate as much of the management of IT as possible, the tools that make that automation possible have been a challenge for them to implement. […]

Automating the Intelligence of Business Intelligence It’s currently clear that machine learning algorithms will not only imbue applications with all kinds of never –before-imagined capabilities, but will also affect the way IT itself is managed. IT is based on machines, so the first most logical place to apply machine learning algorithms is the management of […]

2016 Trends: Preparing the Network for Web-Scale Demands The one thing that was most apparent coming out of the 2016 CES event this past week is that Ultra High-Definition (UHD), otherwise known as 4K, is coming to the network sooner rather than later. While 4K content might still be the better part of a year […]

10 Surprising Ways Automation Can Simplify IT At the Citrix Summit 2016 conference today, Dell announced that it is working with Citrix to bring a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) appliance to market capable of now supporting up to 5,000 users on a platform that fits in a 2u rack. At the same time, Dell announced […]

Security 2016: What to Expect in the New Year Given the reality that passwords at best are a deeply flawed form of security, many organizations have embraced the OpenID Connect, an authentication protocol built on OAuth, as a way to verify user identity without having to rely on a password. Rather than issuing passwords to […]

Demystifying the Language of Uptime: 7 Types of Availability Solutions As a practical matter, working with large files using traditional notebooks is becoming more problematic. Most device manufacturers these days seem to assume that everybody has a robust connection to the Internet available. As a consequence, they are building PCs using drives that, while faster […]

Cloud Contracts: Six Items CIOs Need to Know Before Signing Over the last couple of years, a small cottage industry has emerged to help IT organizations contain public cloud computing costs at a time when it only takes a few clicks to spin up a virtual machine. Now one of the providers of these tools […]

4 Enterprise Technology Trends to Be Mindful of in 2016 Half the battle when it comes to first building and then maintaining a platform is making sure there is enough software available to run on it. Case in point is Wacom, a provider of digital pen tablets and displays that are used in everything from […]