Mike Vizard

All posts by Mike Vizard

Mike Vizard has covered IT for more than 25 years, and has edited or contributed to a number of tech publications including InfoWorld, eWeek, CRN, Baseline, ComputerWorld, TMCNet, and Digital Review. He currently blogs for IT Business Edge and contributes to CIOinsight, The Channel Insider, Programmableweb and Slashdot. Mike blogs about emerging cloud technology for Smarter MSP.

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Digital business transformation needs driving demands for MSPs

Digital business transformation needs driving demands for MSPs

A survey of 1,000 technology leaders conducted by Logicalis finds well over half (57 percent) expect to work more closely with managed service providers (MSPs) to achieve digital business transformation goals.

/ March 14, 2023
The geographical IT salary is narrowing

The geographical IT salary is narrowing

One of the benefits of being a managed service provider (MSP) in a smaller market is that IT professional salaries, mainly due to the lower cost of living, tend to be lower than in places such as New York or...

/ March 7, 2023
Shift toward consuming cybersecurity-as-a-service accelerates

Shift toward consuming cybersecurity-as-a-service accelerates

A survey of 250 IT and cybersecurity professionals at organizations that generate more than $100 million revenue suggests there is a lot more interest in buying cybersecurity than there is in building and maintaining cybersecurity platforms. Conducted by CITE Research...

/ February 27, 2023 / 8 Comments
Java app migration to the cloud increases

Java app migration to the cloud increases

A pair of surveys suggests that there will be an increase in migration of legacy Java applications, which have largely run in on-premises IT environments, into the cloud.

/ February 21, 2023
Containers finally cross chasm of mainstream adoption

Containers finally cross chasm of mainstream adoption

Containers as a software artifact used in applications may have finally crossed the proverbial chasm of adoption. A report published by JFrog, a provider of a platforms for building and deploying applications, based on analysis of how more than 7,000...

/ February 13, 2023
Cybersecurity tops IT spending priority list for 2023

Cybersecurity tops IT spending priority list for 2023

A survey of 837 IT leaders and 201 line of business (LOB) executives conducted by the market research form Foundry, a unit of International Data Group (IDG), finds 91 percent of CIOs expect their technology budgets to either increase or...

/ February 6, 2023
MSPs have an opportunity to be the peacemakers of cloud security

MSPs have an opportunity to be the peacemakers of cloud security

One of the core issues with cloud security that nobody wants to admit is how many issues stem from a simple lack of trust between application developers and internal cybersecurity teams. Developers have historically been much more concerned about how...

/ January 30, 2023 / 7 Comments
MSPs can capitalize on rising cloud costs

MSPs can capitalize on rising cloud costs

A survey of 326 IT executives conducted by the market research firm Omdia on behalf of Canonical, finds only 6 percent are relying on a managed service provider (MSP) to manage cloud infrastructure. However, the same survey also finds that...

/ January 23, 2023
Rise of multi-cloud computing bodes well for MSPs

Rise of multi-cloud computing bodes well for MSPs

The management of cloud computing environments is becoming a bigger opportunity for service providers as more organizations begin to consume services from multiple providers.

/ January 18, 2023
Software supply chain security improving

Software supply chain security improving

The threat to software supply chains appears to be worsening in the wake of two substantial breaches. First, Slack discovered suspicious activity on its private GitHub repository for building software that consisted of a limited number of employee tokens being stolen and...

/ January 12, 2023