Opinion

Where the business cloud weathers the storm

Mission critical apps need special consideration

How enterprises should use the cloud in China

China is becoming a major cloud-computing consumer, and that means foreign companies will be working with Chinese partners via the cloud. Here’s what you need to know

Cloud computing, the Rx for health care

Continued margin and cost pressures are motivating the health care industry to embrace cloud architecture

20 billion IoT devices. Now what?

Latency—the delay in sending and receiving data—has limited the cloud from the start

10 worries that should keep every developer up at night (2018 edition)

If you thought that 2016 was tough and that 2017 was a wild ride, get in your bunker and wait out 2018

Salesforce Community with custom objects in a flow

Puzzling out all the different permissions involved to provide various functionalities is made easier, thanks in part to the active SFDC user community

The implicit value of a mind

People will always think differently from AI, and our added perspectives can only enrich what AI has to offer

Why a multicloud strategy is the way to go

With new cloud innovations in technology, pricing, and partnerships arriving daily, now is the time to embrace a multicloud strategy

Intel HPC Developer Conference and SC17: Supercomputing Matters More Than Ever

More than ever, developments in high performance computing are affecting the entire computer science field and touching every facet of our lives.

How to choose a database for your microservices

Your microservices architecture requires multiple data models. Should you opt for polyglot persistence or a multi-model database?

Farewell, Frodo: Why we need trustworthy metadata to define our infrastructure

Applying metadata allows you to set policy for areas like security and performance based on precise workload characteristics, even at the scale of the cloud

Can data scientists tackle the IoT demand?

Current and future data scientists should consider the impact IoT will have in the field, especially because companies investing in IoT will need data experts

REST or SOAP in a cloud-native environment

There are plenty of discussions and comparisons of API architectures using REST versus SOAP. But which is a better approach when building cloud native services and applications?

How to shift cloud metrics to measuring agility

Cloud metrics have long centered around operational cost savings, but that’s not where the actual value of the cloud is

HoloLens goes to work—but easier developer tools are needed

Microsoft is giving its augmented-reality visors a new enterprise vision, one that’s targeting the 2 billion workers who don’t have a PC

Are crowdsourced algorithms better than ‘old-fashioned’ decision making?

Andrew McAfee, author of “Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future”, raises some interesting points about AI

Paper tiger? Alibaba Cloud faces a steep challenge outside China

Alibaba’s cloud is the No. 3 public cloud globally—not Google—and it seeks to displace AWS as No. 1. But in China it is protected from competition through government ties

Google can read your corporate data. Are you OK with that?

Some cloud providers reserve the right to scan your data for various violations, but few enterprises know if they or their employees have agreed to such terms of service

This tech would let Facebook and Google stop fake news now

The financial services industry already has antifraud tools that, coupled with established spam detection tools, could put an end to Russian efforts to influence our elections

The ideal agile workspace

Software may be eating the world, but it hasn’t eaten the office—yet

Back up your datacenter to the cloud? Why not?

The traditional method does work, of course, but is there a better way?

ML is cool, but synthesized media is the new buzz

Once machine learning and AI help us identify images, videos, and sound, we can collect and tag data at scale. Not only that, but we can also do it at incredible speed

4 sources of latency and how to avoid them

Even Google and Amazon can’t process data instantly—here’s how to combat latency in your real-time application

Moving beyond digital transformation to embrace open ecosystems

How companies are tapping into interconnected ecosystems to drive business growth, and four characteristics of ecosystem enablement

Dremio: Simpler and faster data analytics

Built on Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet, Dremio brings self-service to data analysts and SQL queries to NoSQL data sources

Windows Server 1709: Container-focused, devops-oriented

Microsoft is changing not just how it delivers Windows Server, but also how it thinks about the role of the server

It’s come down to AWS vs. Microsoft Azure—too bad

The market consolidation will cause many enterprises to miss out on good technologies from smaller providers like Google Cloud Platform. That’d be a shame

Is your data safe and secure?

People need to be able to trust the enterprises and databases holding their data

Why your organization needs to invest in adaptive capacity to survive

To remain competitive, the enterprise needs the ability to adapt

GPU computing: the key to unleashing the mysteries of all that data

To effectively handle all the data being created in the world today, we need GPU computing

The technology of ethics: digitized and dangerous, caution advised

Our analytics are advancing by leaps and bounds, but are ethics keeping up?

Moving to the cloud? Don’t make these 3 big mistakes

Other enterprises have made big mistakes in their cloud deployments. Here they are, so you can avoid making the same cloud-migration mistakes

Break down barriers to create a single source of customer intelligence

The executives' challenge is creating a single view of customer engagement

Even data scientists are facing AI takeover

As euphemisms fly for AI replacing human activity, data scientists start to experience the benefits and risks of AI-assisted automation

7 keys to better MySQL performance

As size and load grow, performance tends to slow. Keep these keys in mind to keep MySQL running smoothly

Cloud lockin is here to stay, so learn to love it

To get the benefits of the cloud means tapping into proprietary ecosystems. But there is one way to lessen the impact: change agility

3 emerging cloud technologies for enterprise

Most enterprises manage more than 10,000—and that’s with only 20 percent of their workloads in the cloud. New cloud tech is emerging to help

Keep on running

As our businesses become ever more digital, the cost of poor availability can be catastrophic

Your analytics strategy is obsolete

While analytics is a giant market and filled with confusing marketing speak, there are big trends shaping the industry that will dictate where organizations invest

Can Kotlin really overtake Java as the de facto Android programming language?

A new report says Java only has 14 months left as top dog

To succeed with the cloud, you need real governance

Governance is cloud computing’s secret to success. However, most enterprises don’t yet treat it that way

Before you build your bot: what it takes to make a successful chatbot

In an ever-expanding sea of chatbots, how do you stand out from the crowd?

Making sense of co-bots

There's been plenty of buzz lately about robots taking over human jobs. But collaborative robots that work with people is a much more likely scenario

12 essential software development principles and concepts

All 12 of these concepts and principles are important in both software itself and the business of software.

5 key observations on cloud-native security

Cloud-native security's meta policy around security layers allows the devops or cloud teams to operate it as seamlessly as possible

Maturing devops practices: what you don’t yet know

Why is it so hard for organizations to succeed in the journey to devops?

Do you know the one secret to successful digital transformation?

Creating the ideal IT team may seem daunting, but in reality, you already have everything you need at your fingertips

How to Use Container Stacking to Drive Cloud Savings of Up to 80%

Strengths and limits of analytically driven advice

Our data allow us to assess what has happened, predict what will happen next and then advise us as to how to respond

How containers and microservices change security

Cloud-native applications and infrastructure require a radically different approach to security. Keep these best practices in mind