Opinion

Blame China for the NSA’s spying campaign on us all

'@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex' explores the origins of the NSA’s war on privacy — and Silicon Valley's complicity

Beyond Storm for streaming data applications

For fast-data apps that make real-time decisions, Storm may not be your best bet

Beyond Storm for streaming data applications

Why a distributed, in-memory, SQL-relational database beats Apache Storm for apps that make real-time decisions on streaming data

How to crash the data center with one word

A single word on a simple button does not mean what an admin thinks it means during what should be a routine weekend job

Why Hortonworks can’t sustain a billion-dollar unicorn valuation

Hortonworks wants its software to be 100 percent free. Wall Street? Not so much

The Role of 16Gb Fibre Channel in Today’s Data Center

Manage data responsibly, even if it’s big

In the Wild West of big data, the rules of traditional information management don't always apply easily. But should you give up so quickly on data quality, governance, proper metadata, and security?

Home automation is a solution in search of a problem

The best-known part of the Internet of things is full of dubious products and notions

A cloud move raises security fears — and a chance to improve

In a year of breaches both on premises and in the cloud, security issues should trouble you. But the cloud can also help

There’s no magic in PaaS, only trade-offs

PaaS promises panacea, but is the lock-in worth it?

9 key enterprise tech trends for 2015 and beyond

Enterprise tech is developing at breakneck speed. Here are the trends that will make an impact for years to come

Now crowdfunding: A laptop that protects your digital rights

Purism's laptop is almost 100 percent open source and features preinstalled privacy protection software

There’s no magic in PaaS, only trade-offs

Platform as a service might work like magic for some apps, but it's a series of painful gotchas for others

Meet the worst tech industry turkeys of 2014

This year’s flock distinguished itself by behaving badly toward women, abusing their customers, and shipping buggy software

Dumping Microsoft Office for Google Apps? Test them first

At first glance, Google Apps is attractive in its simplicity and low cost. But dig deeper to see if you're getting what you expect

Data Center Connectivity Management Systems: A Critical Component for Enterprise IT

Fire Phone, Galaxy S5, iPad Mini 3, and more: 15 major mobile flops of 2014

It's been a banner year for smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches of the turkey variety; here are the 15 biggest flappers

4 cloud realities to be thankful for

The move to the cloud seems to be going smoother than many expected

43 percent of marketing organizations sell data

Why is marketing running the show here, and at which point will these companies create a dedicated business unit?

Linux admins: It’s time to relearn the art of compiling apps

Expect package compatibility issues ahead, and the need to rely on the old way of installing open source software

The full stack developer is dead, long live the un-stack developer

Most software projects today don't need a full stack, but they do need tools that fit to scale

The full stack developer is dead, long live the un-stack developer

The un-stack developer uses only the stack technologies that make sense for their software project

The safest computers are iPhones and iPads

PCs are where the security breaches happen — so stop using them if you can

Health care welcomes the cloud, as resistance crumbles

New IT leadership is helping more and more health care providers move to the cloud

Little Suse wakes up, Linux shakes up

After years of playing second fiddle to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, can Suse Linux complete its post-Novell comeback?

Uber bulldozes ethics, demolishes decency to pull ahead

The red-hot ride-sharing service is no stranger to controversy, but its recent targeting of a journalist is both telling and indefensible

A data-stuffed turkey on your Thanksgiving table

In a digitalized world, even your Thanksgiving meal is driven by data. It’s not science fiction: here's the proof

Does SDN Play Well With Others?

Speed and convergence: following the FCIA roadmap to success

Hopes for Hadoop security ride on Apache Ranger

Enterprise interest in Hadoop has been tempered by security worries. Apache Ranger wants to be the solution for authorization and access control

Are Carriers Really Leading the Charge to SDN?

How athletic training principles can help developers

If software developers apply a distance runner's strategy to their craft, they will become better developers, creating not just more code, but better code

MongoDB, Cassandra, and HBase — the three NoSQL databases to watch

With so many NoSQL choices, how do you decide on one? Here’s a handy guide for narrowing your choice to three

That ‘paper MSCE’ holds more value than you might think

A multiple-choice test can't show who's good at real admin work, but it can show who understands the product well enough to invest in

Admins and developers: Two teams separated by a common language

The admins and developers agree on a plan for a security fix, but in the ensuing fiasco, realize they weren't on the same page at all

State of the Fibre Channel Industry

Twitter emoji: 5 lessons for effective open source

An emoji library may seem an unlikely source of best practices for open source. But Twitter's careful work provides an excellent guide

AWS squares up against Google in the Docker war

Docker is too new to gain massive enterprise adoption, but Amazon joins Google in providing the technology for when that time comes

When data drives sports

The advent of big data technologies and data science now makes it possible, and necessary, for every team to analyze their opponent’s every weakness

Net neutrality is as simple as freedom vs. monopoly

Red or blue, liberal or conservative, an open Internet is simply common sense

Can Amazon Web Services be stopped?

A deafening buzz at Amazon's AWS re:Invent show and eye-popping AWS adoption numbers signal gathering momentum

The decline and fall of big data

When it becomes part of the daily life and standard infrastructure for IT, will big data decline and fall? When all hype is gone, what will be left? Just data.

New BlackBerry, old BlackBerry: A half step forward

Online meetings, cloud IDs, and VPN tokens show the better BlackBerry; the Knox deal and two-line phones, not so much

Microsoft must finish the job of opening .Net

Microsoft's open developer strategy is amazing and welcome news. But the company must still bite the bullet and make peace with open source

Amazon Web Services cracks open the door to hybrid clouds

Its public cloud focus intact, Amazon nonetheless is making on-premises integration part of the official story

The marketing of going public

Hortonworks filled for IPO at a fairly early stage for a company in their position. But this also puts them in a unique position to raise their marketing profile, and benefit from Wall Street’s appetite for the big data market.

AT&T on Net neutrality: He who controls the pipes controls the universe

AT&T issued its latest threat to those who would want fair Internet access for all: Not without our pipes, you won't

“Latency: The Other Critical Storage Networking Metric”

Privacy breaches: Bad for business, good for jobs

As major companies spend billions to shore up privacy, demand is rising for IT professionals with the right skills

In-memory computing brings real-time intelligence to operational systems

In-memory data grids enable instant responses to financial transactions, shopping cart contents, monitoring streams, and other operational data