Michael Vizard, IT Editor, Freelance
A veteran IT journalist and columnist, Mike Vizard is a regular contributor to IT Business Edge, ProgrammableWeb, CIOinsight, Channel Insider and UBM TechWeb. He is formerly the editorial director of...
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Does MPLS VPN Fit Your Enterprise?
As the number of enterprise applications being deployed increases, it has become a strategic imperative to ensure both the security and quality of service of those applications. As a result, demand for...
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The Rise of Software-Defined Networking
At the most basic level, software-defined networking is about replacing command line interfaces with a higher level of software that abstracts away the complexity of managing the underlying network...
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The Coming of the Virtual Data Center
Once the virtual machine became popular on servers, it wasn’t long before IT professionals started thinking about applying the same concept to other pieces of IT infrastructure. A short time later,...
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A Growing Thirst for Network Bandwidth
The amount of digital data created today is huge, and it’s expected to expand by 2,000 percent by 2020. That’s an enormous amount of information moving through the world’s networks. Perhaps more...
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Networking for the 21st Century
One of the more significant, yet often unappreciated, elements of making the transition to managing networks at scale in the age of the cloud is the crucial role commercial hardware and merchant-grade...
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Moving towards a truly programmable enterprise with OpenAPIs
Just about anywhere you turn in IT these days, it seems like there is an application programming interface (API) that has been exposed to make it easier to consume one function or another. Whether it’s...
View ArticleDynamically managing the IT supply chain
Thanks to information technology, just about every process has been automated except for one: The actual management of IT itself. More often than not, IT organizations are still manually provisioning...
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