Opinion

The agent security mess

Humans don’t use most of their granted permissions, but agents will—and the results will be disastrous.

By Matt Asay

Mar 23, 20266 mins

Access ControlDevelopment ApproachesIdentity and Access Management

Why you need service virtualization in your development and QA environments

If you're not already using this technology, it would be a great goal for 2018 to further support budget reductions, decreased time to market and devops

By Thomas Sweet

Apr 9, 2018 4 mins

App Testing Development Tools Software Development

The intangibles of picking a public cloud: the board of directors’ viewpoint

While cloud costs are crucial to a healthy EBITDA, these costs will be insignificant if topline growth is stalled or a future funding event is impacted

By Mike Lunt

Apr 9, 2018 5 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Cloud Management

Beware the danger of alarm fatigue in IT monitoring

Too many alerts and alarms can make it tough for IT to catch the critical ones

By Mike Kelly

Apr 6, 2018 5 mins

Devops Software Development

3 mistakes we made moving to a microservices architecture

During our move away from a monolithic architecture, we came up with three sources of friction in our microservices migration. We also developed ways to address them

By Rob Zuber

Apr 6, 2018 6 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Software Development

Open source isn’t the community you think it is

The irony is that what makes open source work—and differ from commercial software—is that only a few developers do the major work on any project

By Matt Asay

Apr 6, 2018 5 mins

Open Source Software Development

Beware these 2 barriers to successful cloud migration

Cloud migration gets harder the farther down you go on the list of applications to migrate, and two issues occur frequently that can lead to failure

By David Linthicum

Apr 6, 2018 2 mins

Cloud Computing

Open source isn’t the community you think it is

The irony is that what makes open source work—and differ from commercial software—is that only a few developers do the major work on any project

By Matt Asay

Apr 6, 2018 5 mins

Careers Open Source Technology Industry

Agile development teams can’t ignore the changes that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) bring to software testing

By Wolfgang Platz

Apr 5, 2018 5 mins

App Testing Software Development Technology Industry

How to get started with AI—before it’s too late

Put these five prerequisites in place so you can actually execute on your artificial intelligence strategy

By Andrew C. Oliver

Apr 5, 2018 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Machine Learning

How to get started with AI—before it’s too late

Put these five prerequisites in place so you can actually execute on your artificial intelligence strategy

By Andrew C. Oliver

Apr 5, 2018 6 mins

Careers Java Software Development

Your analytics team needs a liberal arts major

Whether you are a company director, an educator or a parent, you need to think about how to create a diverse workforce in the short and long term

By Andy Cotgreave

Apr 4, 2018 4 mins

Analytics Careers

Dispelling 5 myths of low-code app development

Low-code platforms offer tools for both the business and IT to collaborate and build valuable enterprise apps at speed, while maintaining control over the entire application life cycle

By Johan den Haan

Apr 4, 2018 5 mins

Development Tools Technology Industry

Data governance 2.0

Part 1 of a conversation with Jason Fishbain, chief data officer, University of Wisconsin at Madison

By Krishna Cheriath

Apr 4, 2018 6 mins

Analytics Data Management Machine Learning

3 tips for a successful data strategy

Most modern businesses will survive only if they use data to acquire and retain customers, and if they use data to automate their supply chain or protect their valuable assets

By Yaron Haviv

Apr 4, 2018 6 mins

Analytics Careers Technology Industry

Stateful stream processing with Apache Flink

Apache Flink is made for applications that continuously apply the same business logic to a series of inputs. That’s most business applications

By Fabian Hueske and Stephan Ewen

Apr 4, 2018 14 mins

Analytics Data Management Software Development

Should AI be regulated?

When it comes to AI, we need to think about protecting the safety and well-being of people everywhere with sound and prudent governance

By Carlos Melendez

Apr 3, 2018 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Technology Industry

Smart cities need the cloud—and vice versa

New data from IDC shows that smart cities are exploding, and the cloud is driving most of that growth

By David Linthicum

Apr 3, 2018 2 mins

Cloud Computing

PowerApps: The route to apps for the rest of your employees

PowerApps gives you a platform for quickly building mobile applications for service workers that work cross-platform and that integrate with existing back ends

By Simon Bisson

Apr 3, 2018 6 mins

Data Integration Mobile Development Technology Industry

If it’s microservices vs. megaclouds, who wins?

In the battle between microservices and megaclouds, digital leaders need to assess which model will truly help them become industry leaders

By Paulo Rosado

Mar 30, 2018 4 mins

APIs Cloud Computing SaaS

Get out of the datacenter before you focus on shiny objects

Blockchain, IoT, deep learning, and other emerging technologies have incredible potential. But don’t let these shiny new objects distract you from the core of your business: your legacy applications

By Dan Jones

Mar 30, 2018 5 mins

Careers Emerging Technology

Don’t bother learning these programming languages

Why you probably should not be learning Dart, Objective-C, or CoffeeScript this year

By Dan Swinhoe

Mar 30, 2018 3 mins

IT Skills and Training Technology Industry

Don’t get surprised by the cloud’s data-egress fees

Moving your data out of a public cloud, even for normal transactions, costs you real money for every gigabyte. Here’s how to minimize the price

By David Linthicum

Mar 30, 2018 2 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Storage

Real-time data pipelines: pairing message queues and databases

Data leaders need to stay on top of the technologies of message queues and databases

By Gary Orenstein

Mar 29, 2018 5 mins

Analytics Data Management Databases

8 critical items to selecting a cloud provider

Significant due diligence process is required to ensure selection of the best cloud service for your business needs

By Scott Fenton

Mar 29, 2018 5 mins

Cloud Computing

Is the cloud the key to democratizing AI?

How cloud services are springing up to offer AI to companies that may otherwise lack the skills

By Duncan Jefferies

Mar 29, 2018 5 mins

Cloud Computing Machine Learning

Sensors and machine learning: How applications can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste

All five senses take the form of some kind of sensor and some kind of mathematical algorithm, usually a supervised machine learning algorithm and a model

By Andrew C. Oliver

Mar 29, 2018 6 mins

Machine Learning Software Development

Sensors and machine learning: How applications can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste

All five senses take the form of some kind of sensor and some kind of mathematical algorithm, usually a supervised machine learning algorithm and a model

By Andrew C. Oliver

Mar 29, 2018 6 mins

Java Software Development

How to make on-call work for your product engineering team

When your on-call process requires its own on-call, it’s time to start automating away

By Bef Ayenew

Mar 28, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Engineer Small and Medium Business

Making intelligent data hubs a reality

Beyond buzzwords and analyst-speak, putting data into practice

By Michael Hiskey

Mar 28, 2018 5 mins

Analytics Data Management

How to own your automation transformation

In short, automation has to be owned and implemented by each employee to drive results across the entire organization

By Mike Gilfix

Mar 28, 2018 4 mins

Careers Emerging Technology Technology Industry

5 common pitfalls of CI/CD—and how to avoid them

What’s the secret to devops success? Start with continuous integration and continuous deployment

By Zubin Irani

Mar 28, 2018 10 mins

Agile Development Build Automation Devops

How AI can help solve the ‘fake news’ problem

AI's role in the “fake news” phenomenon is very exaggerated, but AI can help address the misinformation manipulation now so prevalent

By James Kobielus

Mar 28, 2018 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

HCI? HC why?

If you're looking at changing the way you deliver your IT infrastructure with a more automated, simplified delivery mechanism, try looking at this new breed of HCI.

By Paul Stringfellow

Mar 27, 2018 5 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Technology Industry

A different drumbeat: using Kanban for devops to smooth out your scrum cycles

That multiweek cycle that suits the dev team isn’t always a great fit for devops

By Nate Berent-Spillson

Mar 27, 2018 5 mins

Agile Development Development Tools Devops

Why IoT security should keep you up at night

Recent data shows that although cloud computing security is still a priority, IoT security is not

By David Linthicum

Mar 27, 2018 3 mins

Cloud Computing Security

Skip containers and do serverless computing instead

Container technologies like Docker are very powerful, but require talent you can’t get. Serverless computing provides the same benefits—with talent you can actually get

By Matt Asay

Mar 27, 2018 4 mins

Cloud Computing Serverless Computing Software Development

How to write machine learning apps for Windows 10

Machine learning isn’t only for the cloud. Microsoft is bringing it to PCs in the next Windows 10 release. Here’s how to get started now

By Simon Bisson

Mar 27, 2018 6 mins

Machine Learning Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Skip containers and do serverless computing instead

Container technologies like Docker are very powerful, but require talent you can’t get. Serverless computing provides the same benefits—with talent you can actually get

By Matt Asay

Mar 27, 2018 4 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Software Development

The transformation of IT operations management driven by hybrid IT

In a hybrid IT world, we cannot ignore either the foundation that got us to this point or the future that will only exist if we can keep pace with competitors

By Travis Greene

Mar 26, 2018 5 mins

Agile Development Development Tools Technology Industry

Eliminating alert fatigue: a devops secret

Alert fatigue is a common plague among devops organization. To eliminate it requires the right tools and techniques and managers have to make sure the processes thresholds are correct

By Larry Gordon

Mar 26, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Devops Technology Industry

Do not hire a devops engineer

Likewise, don't spend months in searching for mythical devops engineer—they don't actually exist in the nature

By Stepan Pushkarev

Mar 23, 2018 4 mins

Careers Devops Technology Industry

The best way to adopt the cloud: Short sprints vs. big bang

Large companies and government agencies do better with short tactical cloud computing projects, versus the larger, more strategic projects

By David Linthicum

Mar 23, 2018 3 mins

Cloud Computing

Navigating time in knowledge graphs

The temporal benefits of cognitive knowledge graphs can affect almost any business problem, including basic issues of data management such as data quality, data cleansing, and integration

By Jans Aasman

Mar 22, 2018 4 mins

Analytics Databases Machine Learning

The programming languages you should learn now

if you're in the market for a new lingua franca, what you choose next might be influenced by your current language of choice

By Andrew C. Oliver

Mar 22, 2018 10 mins

HTML Java JavaScript

How to incorporate enterprise legacy systems into your digital strategy

Legacy systems complicate digital transformation efforts but replacing them isn’t always a choice. Fortunately, with a little effort they can be folded into a more modern digital architecture

By Humberto Farias

Mar 21, 2018 7 mins

Careers Technology Industry