Michael Vizard

Focus on Security Software Innovation Customers think free anti-virus software is just as good as commercial offerings. Need to make sure this is not the case for too much longer. Find New Routes to Market With McAfee firmly in Intel’s pocket, Symantec needs to find routes to market to counter Intel OEM model. Modernize Data […]

A Need for Speed The network will be transmitting 60 Gb/sec – the equivalent of 60 000 novels or the entire content of Wikipedia every 0.5 seconds. Data Transfer Rates 40 Gigabytes of data per second Number of Switches Deployed 2,200 switches Number of Wireless Access Points 1,800 Number of Connections 30,000 across 94 locations […]

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Apple Extends Mobile Enterprise Dominance Apple Starts to Widen Its Lead in the EnterpriseIT organizations prefer closed Apple ecosystem No Title Android Losing MomentumLong term trend favors Apple as well No Title Blackberry Takes a DiveAs interest in HTML5 starts to climb No Title The Rise of ARMDevelopers need incentives No Title Microsoft’s Metro Makes […]

Nicira Spends $1.26 billion in cash to muscle in on emerging software-defined networking (SDN) market. DynamicOps Extends reach into management of private clouds running on top of virtual machines Wanova Doubles down on desktop virtualization by betting on Type 1 hypervisors Tech Health Check Provides foundation for new consulting division Ceta Startup working on analytics […]

An Olympic Waste of Time and Money The Number of People Planning on Following the Olympics on TV69.4% of US employees confirmed that they will be following the Olympics on TV. No Title The Number of People Planning on Watching Olympics from Work37.9% also reported that they plan to watch the Olympics during work hours. […]

Striking a Delicate IT Security Balance Do You Feel Your Organization Is Forcing You to Focus on Cost Savings at the Expense of SecurityAlmost half do, but it’s hard to be certain if it’s justifiable No Title How Many Security Consoles Does Your Team Manage?One indication of why costs may be out of control No […]

Anoint a Technology Leader With the passing of Steve Jobs the role of visionary for the industry is vacant. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just doesn’t have the tech cred to play that role. Imitation is Not Innovation It may be the sincerest form of flattery, but real innovation requires originality. The intersection of mouse, touch […]

How many different environments do your applications get deployed to? Most go through multiple stages What types of releases do you perform the most? Iterative approaches start to dominate How do you deploy to the following environments? Lots of manual work still going on No Title How complex are your typical production deployments? For complex […]

Security Most Important by Age Older workers have greater security appreciation Difference in Priorities – Gen Y versus Baby Boomers Hard for Gen Y to distinguish between work and play Very Concerned about Security and Privacy Also differs substantially with age Sources of Security Attacks Causing Most Concern Web sites are now the number one […]

Organizations Are Collecting and Managing More Information than Ever 94 percent of the organizations surveyed say they are collecting more information today than two years ago with the biggest sources of the data being customer information, operations and sales and marketing. That Data is Growing Exponentially The average growth rate of all that data is […]

Radial OneNote Menu Has been optimized for touch Lync Videoconferencing Integration with Microsoft Office will be much tighter Social Networking with SharePoint Document sharing via social networking Outlook People Card Multiple contacts are transparently joined into one view, reducing distracting duplicates and offering social context. Outlook Bing App Without ever leaving the Outlook window, address […]