Opinion

What does the future hold for business applications?

Asked another way, what are the features of the best platform for the next generation of business apps?

Are you caught up with the real-time (r)evolution?

Real-time analytics have been around since well before computers. Here's where the evolution of real time is headed in 2018

AWS and Azure dominate the cloud. Neither should win

Enterprises must ensure they don’t end up subservient to just one cloud provider by focusing on needs before ecosystem

Why serverless deployment could be especially valuable to African businesses

Serverless deployment is the next frontier in app hosting. How can business in Africa benefit from this shift?

4 careers where data science skills will help you get ahead

As the talent gap widens companies will likely require or at least encourage a certain level of data savvy from nontechnical team members to stay competitive in the market

How Salesforce supports citizen development

Application development is like raising a child: It takes a village, with each member contributing their specialty at the best time and in the appropriate context

Are you treating your data as an asset?

The best thing you can do is encourage a culture that is data-focused, one that realizes the importance of security and privacy, as well as understanding that data is crucial to your organization’s success

Open source innovation is now all about vendor on-ramps

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all racing to figure out how to turn their innovations into open source on-ramps to their proprietary services

Hybrid cloud is a necessity. Here’s how to start

Going hybrid is one vendor pitch you should take seriously as you begin moving your infrastructure and apps to the cloud

Open source innovation is now all about vendor on-ramps

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all racing to figure out how to turn their innovations into open source on-ramps to their proprietary services

Let’s talk about devops, CFOs

An open letter to finance about devops and budgeting

Break through agile velocity plateaus

By reinventing testing, you not only better align your quality process with agile and other digital transformation initiatives. You also unlock a stealth strategy to surge ahead of your competitors

Modern IT and data science in an era of analytic deployment

How data scientists and IT build and deploy their analytics models

Watch Experts Talk About Cool Science at HPC

Video highlights from the Intel HPC Developer Conference.

When it comes to the cloud, don’t start with technology

Too many companies pick the technology first, and then get stuck in the weeds trying to figure out what the business actually needs

Azure Databricks: Fast analytics in the cloud with Apache Spark

Microsoft’s partnership with Databricks adds new analytics tools to Azure’s data platform

Why containers will rule the cloud: the rise of Kubernetes

It’s clear we are moving in a cloud-native direction with microservices and containers. The big decision now is where to start

Use the cloud to create open, connected data lakes for AI, not data swamps

There needs to be a material change in the way people think of solving complex data problems

5 steps for baking AI into your enterprise

AI is driving digital transformation in business and the wider economy. For organizations adopting digital transformation strategies that leverage AI, lessons from the kitchen can help inspire best practices and help ensure success

Meet one of the early (pre-JavaScript) VR pioneers

We speak to VR pioneer Tony Parisi about the future of the industry

Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Microsoft Azure vs. Google Cloud vs. IBM Cloud

Microsoft Azure generally has the lowest on-demand and discounted instance pricing, while AWS runs in the middle of the pack

Why ICA is the real ECM

ICA will provide the enterprise with a rich field of information that can be used to generate predictions which in the past we never considered possible

3 challenges of high-performance storage in the age of unstructured data explosion

High-performance flash storage used for unstructured file data necessitates modern solutions

Legacy QA in the devops age: reskill them or release them?

As devops becomes more mainstream, are your legacy teams and processes holding you back from fully making the transition?

Raise Your Hand and Ask: What’s a Qubit?

Most people don’t want to be the uncool one to raise their hand and ask a question, but in many cases we really should. These occasional “Raise Your Hand and Ask” posts highlight cool “buzzwords” you may have heard.

How to diagnose cloud performance issues

Follow these five steps to detect root causes of poor cloud performance

For developers, Microsoft’s AI future gets a foundation

New tools and an AI school show that Microsoft is getting serious about delivering to developers an AI-powered future

Be on the lookout for broken airline IT systems this holiday travel season

As we eat our turkey this Thanksgiving, let’s cross our fingers for the 2017 holiday season—usually, brittle systems fail during peak volumes

Get started with Twilio’s Programmable Voice API to build an IVR system

A quick guide for building an interactive voice response (IVR) system for your customers with Twilio, Node.js, and Express

In data management, the history is the future

We live in the era of agile data management

Forget Pokémon Go: Why you should build for the enterprise

Hint: it's all about the path to monetization

The key to scaling your organization is knowledge sharing

How to create a culture that makes information accessible to developers

Why cloud adoption isn’t slowing datacenter growth

Enterprises can’t yet give up the corporate datacenter, and the cloud providers are using all they can get

What you need to know (now) about container standards

Standards are a good thing, but it’s important to know how different standards do (or don’t) work together—and what they mean for your container deployment efforts moving forward

Blockchain shows open source’s fatal flaw—and a way forward

Open source usage has skyrocketed, but not the number of developers working on projects. Those who benefit need to pay developers to keep it all going

10 tech trends you don’t have to worry about (2018 edition)

2017 was a bit of a snoozer in technology, so 2018 can’t help but be more disruptive. But not that much more

Blockchain shows open source’s fatal flaw—and a way forward

Open source usage has skyrocketed, but not the number of developers working on projects. Those who benefit need to pay developers to keep it all going

Attaining True Elasticity in the Cloud

How AI will rewrite the rules for creating and acquiring content

Whether it’s content creation or acquisition, creative decisions serve a clear purpose: to drive value

How to introduce microservices in a legacy environment

It is critical to balance risk with reward and, when it comes to microservices, embrace an evolutionary approach and process

Connecting Dies: How Moore’s Law Now Drives Packages

Did you know that processors, and other packaged integrated circuits, often contain more than one die (aka chip)? It’s not something you can tell by looking at them.

Access denied? How data sharing can shape the future of banking

Banking isn’t what it used to be

You want innovation? You’ll have to go to the cloud

For years, enterprises looked at cloud providers to duplicate what existed on-premises. Now, the public cloud is the default platform for innovation

What’s new in Azure Functions: durable states

New serverless state capabilities in Azure Functions offer an alternative way of managing events and actions

KPIs for managing and optimizing devsecops success

CISOs need to make devsecops a priority. These KPIs can help align both security and nonsecurity stakeholders as to where, why, and how security fits into the process

A speedy recovery: the key to good outcomes as health care’s dependence on data deepens

Data is transforming health care, but it is also making life-saving treatments far more vulnerable to IT system failures

The agile transformation and test automation

As teams learn and adapt to agile, customized implementations in the process will further impact the industry

What is Apache Spark? The big data analytics platform explained

Fast, flexible, and developer-friendly, Apache Spark is the leading platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning

Pivotal’s software factory at heart of a disruptive world

The Dell-owned software development agency is not as well-known as other web era stars but is just as important

Robots in restaurants: imagining the future

A lot of experimentation is going on, business models are being tested and acceptance of a new interaction for people, both digitally and in the physical world