Michael Vizard

BYOD Security Becomes a Pervasive Issue Percentage of End Users that Use a Personal Device for Work-Related Functions81% admit it, but getting them to actually confess that is another issue all together No Title Will Connect to Company Network via an Unsecured Free or Public Wi-Fi Network31% admit to this risky behavior No Title Have […]

As more customers become familiar with the concept of an “app store” in their personal lives many of them are starting to ask solution providers to provide a similar type capability for their corporation. Like most things IT, that’s a lot easier said than done. But Michael Ni, chief marketing officer for Avangate, a provider […]

While the amount of interest in Big Data at the moment may far exceeds the actual number of IT projects being launched using the technology platform; it’s clear that technologies such as Hadoop are creating a significant new opportunity for the channel. Solution providers looking to take advantage of those opportunities should take note of […]

One of the problems that solution providers have is that much of their intellectual property is inside the heads of their employees. When those employees leave, they tend to take a fair amount of that expertise with them. Marie Wieck, IBM general manager for WebSphere, says that one of the more interesting use cases that […]

Joint ventures are difficult to manage on any level, especially when the nature of the product being offered has a lot of dependencies involved. Solution providers in particular get frustrated having to deal with the same issues over and over again. In that context it’s good to see Cisco and NetApp moving to address some […]

With the rise of Big Data the single most compelling reason to upgrade any client system is going to be the ability to actually visualize all that data. Existing systems by and large do a poor job of visualization, especially when compared to Windows 8 or the MacOS running on the latest next-generation processor from […]

While there’s a lot of talk these days about moving everything into the cloud, there’s just as much talk about Big Data. What’s ironic about that is that it’s prohibitively expensive to transfer massive amounts of data in and out of the cloud. Because of that a lot of IT organizations are starting to make […]

While PC margins are razor thin these days, one of the more interesting developments in the workstation space is that the delta between the cost of a PC and a workstation has significantly narrowed. That means there’s a lot more customers who previously might have only considered a standard PC that are now probably willing […]

As it becomes more apparent that cloud service providers are increasingly going to rely on channel partners to take their service to market, the channel as a whole is getting more comfortable with the entire concept. According to Jason Bystrak, sales director for the North American Services Division at Ingram Micro, solution providers attending the […]

Now is a time of great change when it comes to backup and recovery. For more years than anyone cares to remember IT organizations mostly dependent on traditional tape backup software, even when using disk-based backup systems. But with the advent of cloud computing things have become a little more complicated. Because of network bandwidth […]

It’s going to be almost impossible for any company to maintain a homogenous unified communications environment. Either because of acquisitions or simply the need to be able to communicate with other organizations that have standardized on another platform, unified communications almost by definition is heterogeneous. But providers of unified communications offerings have been slow to […]

Just about every company today has a Web site, but very few of them have been optimized for mobile computing devices. The reason for this is that most businesses don’t really have the cash on hand to fund a major overhaul of their Web sites. But surprisingly enough, it turns out that most Web sites […]