Opinion

Cloud migration: The pros and cons of a common platform

Heterogeneity in the datacenter can be enormous, so it's tempting to use a cloud migration to standardize on one platform. If only it were that easy

The good ol’ days

The days of infrastructure-first monitoring are waning

Artificial general intelligence (AGI): The steps to true AI

Early AI research tackled the challenge the wrong way, but there’s now progress around machine intuition, unsupervised learning, and creativity

Getting started with test automation: It’s not just about the tools

Making a test automation culture work well does depend upon alignment between people, process, and technology

Devops starts with leadership and culture

Devops is not just tools and skills. It requires the right leaders and the right leadership skills to make sure the culture and processes are correct

From IRC to chatops: How every department can benefit from what IT teams have been doing for years

In a software-driven world, success is often defined by whoever can react most quickly to changes in the environment

7 essential technologies for a modern data architecture

These key technologies are “re-platforming” the enterprise to enable faster, easier, more flexible access to large volumes of precious data

Think protecting your unstructured data is hard? Imagine protecting the data generated by the Olympics!

Something to think about the next time you watch downhill skiing!

3 things CDAOs should do to fully understand and embrace the magnitude of their job

What should chief data and analytics officers do to substantiate their roles and deliver on the long-term goals they’ve been signed up to accomplish?

What the ‘versatilist’ trend means for IT staffing

Gartner predicts that IT staff will have fewer technical roles available to them as the cloud gains traction. That’s just not true

Get started with Google Go in Azure

Microsoft gives Go developers a set of Azure SDKs for Visual Studio, Azure Stack, and Azure itself

Linux containers: the whys, wherefors, and what’s next

The new container and container image paradigm seems to be just right as companies struggle to meet demand for applications that expand business processes across all digital platforms

Rethinking cloud ROI: Come for cost savings but stay for agility

An agility-based ROI approach is a much more effective way to look at the value of cloud computing, and thus to gain that value

Building trust in machine learning and AI

If we understand how discrimination and bias enter algorithmic decision making, we have an opportunity to eliminate them

Designing a latency-free enterprise

The businesses that succeed in the future will harness the potential to create real-time, latency-free enterprises that drive new revenue, boost customer engagement, and enhance employee productivity

The cloud computing market is about to get a lot more competitive

There is good reason to believe the future of computing looks nothing like the present

3 common pitfalls of microservices integration—and how to avoid them

How to overcome the challenges of remote communication, asynchronicity, and transactions in microservices infrastructure

The evidence is in: The cloud’s advantages are now clear to business

The business community is now seeing directly how the cloud is transformative for business, not something simply for technologists to use

Understanding tools strategy in a devops world

The recent explosion of software delivery tools needs to be paired with a discipline for managing them

Is your ITOM project AI-friendly?

The ability to stream information from legacy sources and setup within machine-learning-friendly value chain are key measures of today’s projects to ensure they aren’t obsolete before the end of the year

SaaS-ifying your enterprise application? A quick-and-dirty guide

Many enterprises see a need to SaaS-enable applications, making them into a product for customers and partners. But most have no clue about what to do

Artificial intelligence isn’t taking your job

With data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation may improve your job

What if the LOB had digital democratization

4 recommendations to set your IoT analytics strategy on the best course

Data preparation is the key to big data success

Common barriers to big data adoption, and how to adapt and overcome those challenges

Shopping for data: what’s fit for your purpose?

The data catalog (or data marketplace) makes finding and accessing data easier, another step toward data democratization

QF2 for AWS: High-performance file storage for the cloud

Qumulo File Fabric is a modern, highly scalable file storage system that spans the data center and the public cloud

Who really contributes to open source

New data debunks several myths around which companies lead in open source contributions

Who really contributes to open source

New data debunks several myths around which companies lead in open source contributions

Salesforce uncoded: the reality of code-free Salesforce communities

An interesting challenge achieved … but at what cost?

Data governance: the key to building consistent, outstanding digital experiences

The investment required for data governance is the price organizations must pay for their teams to have access to the right data at the right time

How women can find mentors in the field of data science

Although it may take a bit more effort in finding a mentor in this field, all data scientists will be much better off by learning from an expert

Get started with Azure Event Grid for serverless publish-and-subscribe

Microsoft’s publish-and-subscribe event-distribution tool is now ready for your code

Capacity alone won’t assure good cloud performance

Will your cloud-based workload support 100,000 concurrent users? The only way to find out is through performance testing

Oracle’s cloud bravado masks its database despair

Oracle is a fantastic database for yesteryear’s enterprise applications, but is a poor fit for modern, big data applications

What you need to know about microservices tools

Some of the tools and frameworks that can be used when implementing microservices

How BDD can improve business-developer alignment

Hybrid IT provides the opportunity to transform the IT experience

The IT experience must be transformed, not just to maintain relevance for the IT organization, but because the business needs the complexity of hybrid IT reduced to be competitive in the digital economy

Don’t worry about selecting the ‘wrong’ public cloud

The reality is that it matters much more about what you do after you pick the provider than which one you pick.

Driving innovation by increasing developer collaboration

Working together to achieve company goals can often be one of the biggest challenges while writing software

Relational Database Services – Not Quite as Simple as They Seem

Moving database operations to the cloud can deliver many benefits, but database services may be opaque, and can vary in size and type by region.

The best workloads for containers: All of them (really!)

Moving to containers unlocks development speed and operational efficiency in a way that no other process can accomplish. It also gives developers the flexibility to move that workload around

Cloud contracts: 5 must-have elements

Just a few pointers to consider when negotiating a contract with a cloud provider

One cloud accounting dilemma will soon be fixed

New processes from the Financial Accounting Standards Board propose a reasonable way to deal with cloud computing costs

Standard or Custom Cloud Instances? How to Decide?

Building customized cloud environments for your applications may make sense — but only if you can easily weigh the benefits versus the costs.

Comparing public and private cloud costs

Cloud computing costs can accelerate for several reasons. A key question: When does the public cloud become more costly than the private? That threshold seems to be dropping

Avoiding the agony of acquiring code

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live

Devops open source monitoring tools can reduce cost and increase uptime

Open source tools can cost-effectively help devops engineers see and correlate data from multiple data streams more easily

Harmonizing big data with an enterprise knowledge graph

In addition to streamlining how users retrieve diverse data via automation capabilities, a knowledge graph standardizes those data according to relevant business terms and models

AI disruptions and the power of intelligent data

The combination of artificial intelligence and inductive machine learning using training data sets can bring significant impact on enterprise productivity and enhancements

How likely can terrorists, nuclear attacks, or hackers take down the cloud?

A recent report estimates a huge financial cost to cloud users, which business insurance won’t cover. But is this something you really need to worry about?