Opinion

How cloud serves as the foundation of AI

As companies migrate to and run operations in the cloud, leaders are looking to the next horizon: innovating from the cloud with AI

Is Your Cloud Approach the Right Approach?

From agile to fragile in 60 sprints

Some enterprises have forgotten that the mantra of "better, cheaper, faster" needs to be limited to two choices, because in software, the impact of going for all three may not be felt until it's too late

Progressive web apps in Microsoft Edge: What you need to know

Microsoft’s Windows 10 browser is about to run apps offline. Here’s how to take advantage of its new features in your web apps

Safer but not immune: Cloud lessons from the Equifax breach

Suddenly, everyone is an expert on enterprise security, and the cloud is claimed to be a silver bullet for security. It’s not that simple

How to approach transformation in the cloud

Thoughts and suggestions on how organizations can ease their transition/journey to cloud.

From equanimity to Equifax

What the Equifax breach should show CIOs and CISOs about open-source software quality

Edge computing 101: A CIO demystification guide

CIOs are now used to cloud computing, but here comes edge computing. Should they worry?

Ye olde ETL shoppe

New data integration vendors are promising to ETL your data to its destination in minutes. Is the old ETL process, with hundreds of complex stages, completely defunct?

Admit your mistakes if you want to succeed in the cloud

Enterprises that won’t admit mistakes either keep making them or avoid risk by not improving. Both approaches will cost you dearly

Part 5: How to Eliminate Deadwood in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform Without Risking Disaster

Bridging the developer and data scientist gap with cloud, notebooks and PixieDust

When developers and data scientists work together, the benefits abound

Part 4: How to Modernize Public Cloud Instances to Stop Leaving Money on the Table

Using big data to improve customer experience and financial results

For enterprises both large and small, it’s important to have a strategy in place to better serve customers using collected information

Why Redis beats Memcached for caching

Memcached is sometimes more efficient, but Redis is almost always the better choice

Part 3: How to Size Your Cloud Instances for Memory

Part 2: How to Avoid the Sneaky (and Costly) Public Cloud Instance “Bump-Up” Loop

Will Chinese companies surge to the top of the public cloud market?

Chinese Huawei stated at its recent cloud event that it wanted to be one of the five major public clouds in the world—what does this mean and how likely is it?

Five-part series: How to Choose the Right Public Cloud Instances to Reduce Costs and Optimize App Performance

Ensuring big data and fast data performance with in-memory computing

In-memory computing offers speed and scalability for digital transformation initiatives

Iteration is the best way to find the insight in your data

Iteration is key to success. There is simply no way you can open a dataset and know, ahead of that exploration, how best to display it

Machine learning skills for software engineers

You don’t need to be a data scientist to do machine learning, but you do need data skills. Start with these

Intel’s ‘2018 Model Year’ Developer Tools Are Now Available

Why Controlling Public Cloud Costs is so Difficult and What to Do About It

Get started with cloud app dev in Azure App Service

How to use Azure’s PaaS tools to build cloud-hosted apps that run on your mobile devices and in your browsers

How long it takes to move a workload to the cloud

Here’s a quick way to figure out how long it will take to move both “lift and shift” and refactored workloads to the public cloud

What does container portability really mean?

Portability and compatibility are not the same thing. Portability is a business problem, while compatibility is a technical problem

Why Microsoft will drive serious Linux innovation

Microsoft, while maintaining its commitment to Windows, has made the necessary steps to not merely run on Linux but to help shape the future of Linux

7 mobile usability success factors

7 key points in designing mobile apps to optimize usability and increase the chance for success

Cloud lockin: It’s not as bad you might think

Here is a quick guide to deal with the reality of cloud computing lockin, and why it’s a price you usually need to pay

A better model for cloud security

How Bracket Computing uses full workload isolation to secure the hybrid cloud without disrupting developer workflow

What is JSON? JavaScript Object Notation explained

JSON has eclipsed XML as the preferred data interchange format for web applications and web services. Here’s why

5 easy steps to install custom components in Salesforce Trailhead playground orgs

Spend less time installing components in your Salesforce Trailhead Playground and more time learning to use them with this shortcut approach

When big data meets innovation: cognitive platforms

Why we need learned logic as the new layer in the application architecture

Are you cloud-savvy? Take this test to find out

Some people are truly savvy about cloud computing, but most are just posers. Which are you?

How Microsoft will bring blockchain to the enterprise

Businesses can get a lot out of the blockchain that powers bitcoins, and Microsoft’s Coco Framework aims to give them fast and private access to the underlying technologies

How live streaming is reinventing education

You no longer need to be stuck in a classroom to learn. Take your learning on the go with you

Building a modern data strategy

Today our use of data is critical, so delivering the right strategy to our business is crucial

Open core products: Are they worth the trade-off?

Combining open source and closed-source attributes, open core approaches risk lockin but can provide useful functionality

Doing cloud computing? You need devops, too

If you’re moving to the cloud, you’re moving to devops as well—even on premises

AI has met a fork in the road; which path will dominate?

While pure AI, or open API, will soon allow robots to become more human-like, pragmatic AI is alive and well today and driving true business transformation

Proving value from the cloud

How to kick-start cloud transformation by building a solid business case

How to plan your successful cloud migration

To kick-start cloud adoption, companies have first to figure out how to deal with four foundation blocks that enable accelerated transformation

Beyond the (fire)wall: how IT can excel in the cloud

To compete in this new world, IT needs to make a few fundamental shifts in their thinking and technical approach to cloud

NativeScript: Build native iOS and Android apps with JavaScript

NativeScript lets you use Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript to build mobile apps with a truly native look and feel

How to do open source right: LinkedIn shows the way

LinkedIn is a model for producing open source code that really matters to a community—and highlights why developers would want to work for you

The CDO: helping harness the power of data

The CDO drives the strategy to integrate data into an enterprise’s overall monetization strategy

Cloud data warehouse: The technology no one knows about

Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse are cool tools in search of a category

Failures make Microsoft Office better and better

Microsoft is experimenting with focused tools to let you dip into work as needed. Some experiments end up moving Office 365 to the next level

What to do if your public cloud is hacked

In the unlikely event your cloud provider has a breach, there are several things you should do—and not do—to protect yourself