In a new series, “CIO Reality Check,” we’re talking to CIOs about today’s most important IT decisions. We set out to find and speak to CIOs from a variety of industries to gain their perspective on ...

Three columns ago, I started a series of articles pointing out that tough times are a-comin' for the DBA profession due to major disruptive changes in the wider IT world (see "2012 Might Really Be the ...

Most of us involved with virtualization agree that it’s the hottest trend in IT right now. But we have to be careful not to get too carried away. So here’s my list of a few reality checks to keep in ...

Virtual Iron recently highlighted the top 10 posts that received the most attention in all of 2007 from its company blog. The blog post titled "The 3-Second Hardware Virtualization Check" seemed to be ...

Mike Williams considered his virtualization project a success after consolidating 17 U.S. datacenters into three. But then the traffic jams started. As CIO of the U.S. Defense Contract Management ...

PHOENIX — With at least four major vendors selling or getting ready to release virtualization products to pool storage for easier allocation and management, users at Storage Networking World here ...

Cisco Systems' Unified Computing System announcement last week seemed to lift the whole industry out of its recession gloom. All of a sudden, it seemed like massive virtual data centers and cloud ...

Once you finish any major IT project inside your enterprise, from an ERP deployment to a CRM upgrade to a SCM install, inevitably the real work for you and your IT team has only just begun. That’s ...