Opinion

What’s old is new again

The fundamental change in technology’s role in the modern digital business has given rise to devops and agile methodologies. At the heart of both of these is cross-functional coordination, communication, collaboration and continuous problem-sol

7 keys to structuring your Node.js app

Keep these considerations in mind to make your Node.js app easy to debug, easy to maintain, and easy to scale

What’s All the Excitement Over Software Defined Visualization and in Situ Visualization?

Don’t bet too soon on the hot cloud technologies

Microservices, devops, containers, machine learning, and the rest are all great ideas, but you can’t just jump into them

How to port your PC software to the Windows Store

You should deliver the Windows Universal Platform style of applications to users of Windows 10, and especially users of the new Windows 10 S

Security in a cloud-native environment

Cloud-native design can offer tremendous security—but getting there needs a structured design approach to safeguard enterprise systems and data

You can’t build enterprise AI if you suck at data & analytics

Executives are anxious to jump on the AI bandwagon, but many organizations lack the requisite data & analytics infrastructure or executive culture to build production machine learning systems.

How to handle risks of hypervisor hacking

Understand and reduce the risks.

‘Pick that cloud, lose our business’: What to do

As giant tech companies compete, some are bullying customers to take sides. A multicloud strategy can help you stay out of their politics

The many (emerging) faces of machine learning

Machine learning is everywhere: across industries and affecting many aspects of daily living

Benchmarks, analyst reports, and other pretenses

Keep the these four facts in mind when assessing how much you should trust “independent” evaluations

How to think about Docker security

Is Docker secure? To answer that question, we need to look at the entire Docker stack

A Look Ahead (and Back) to the Intel HPC Developer Conference

What does ‘open’ mean to IT in the cloud era?

Open is an overused and loaded term. Yet, it remains one of the centerpieces of IT strategies in the cloud era.

This time, you can trust the cloud Magic Quadrant

Often, analysts’ vendor maps mislead enterprises in their technology choices, but this time IT can safely start with this vendor assessment

What you need to know about Power BI now

Power BI is now much more than an Excel query tool. Here’s how to use it for your business data analysis and reporting

Why Effective Parallel Programming Must Include Scalable Memory Allocation

How to tell if AI or machine learning is real

False and misleading claims abound that applications and cloud services are now smart. Here’s how to identify true artificial intelligence and machine learning

Apple’s Core ML: The pros and cons

Apple’s impressive iOS machine learning technology teeters between its limits and its ease of adoption by developers

The 2 cloud security myths that must die

Too many people treat cloud security as a black-and-white proposition, which risks wasting lots of money or having security gaps—or both

4 key AI concepts you need to understand

Every artificial intelligence solution is built on these four foundations; here’s your quick guide

Don’t let Netflix envy cloud your devops judgment

In the search for rapid deployment, think twice before following in Silicon Valley's footsteps

3 killer cloud skills that will get you hired today

Companies are paying mad money for these cloud skills

Forget the GUI: The return of the command line

Managing Windows at the scale of the cloud means going back to the command line with PowerShell and Bash

Devops: Farewell to major software releases and welcome to transparent software

Key considerations for companies transitioning to a devops environment

Don’t fall for faux agile

Here are recommendations and guidelines to help your team find a middle ground between impractical purist Agile adherence that helps projects get managed and completed to satisfaction

Cisco’s DevNet alters collaboration playing field

Finally there's a software defined network that provides a platform for building a shared narrative layer.

Cloud API integration platforms make the digital economy work

APIs make 'getting to market' happen faster, and they make continued engagement more likely.

How to get started with containerization

Given how truly disruptive containers are, it's easy to get excited and want to go all in. But there's much to be gained by getting a lay of the land before you jump

When it comes to cloud, one size does not fit all

Enterprises do not want to be locked in with one cloud vendor.

Reality check: The state of AI, bots, and smart assistants

We’ve made a lot of progress in artificial intelligence over the last half century, but we’re nowhere near what the tech enthusiasts would have you believe

Serverless computing: Don’t make the wrong choices

Tools like Amazon Web Services’ AWS Lambda and Microsoft’s Azure Functions let you develop serverless applications, but too many developers use them on the wrong apps

A Look at Intel’s 2018 Software Development Tools

Apple releases iOS 11: What developers need to know

We have three months to go before Apple's new operating system hits the market. To get the development process off on the right foot, let’s break down some of the biggest changes and challenges with iOS 11 that are putting devops teams to

Why Google might lose the enterprise AI wars

Google leads in cutting edge AI research, but lags behind Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM in market share for enterprise cloud and AI solutions. To win the enterprise AI wars, the search giant must overcome two key disadvantages.

The 10 tools every modern developer should use

No matter what language you use or platforms you support, there is a core set of tools everyone needs to have

Why you should use microservices

Find out how large and small enterprises are using microservices to continuously modify, scale, and update their apps for changing business needs

The 7 best wireframing and prototyping tools for app makers

How serverless changes application development

Serverless architecture and function-as-a-service platforms open a whole new world of simplicity, speed, and flexibility for developers

Data in, intelligence out: Smart apps are only as good as the data

Effective machine learning and predictive analytics depend on vast amounts of relevant data and continuous learning

CFOs have discovered the big stick of cloud computing

CFOs are more likely to drive cloud adoption than CIOs are, to save money. That’s a painful political reality, but so what? It’s for the right cause

Inside Windows Server’s containerized Linux future

Microsoft’s Windows Server strategy is about to change, with faster updates, a lot of Linux love, and a devops focus

Bank battle for innovation and market share needs huge live data crunching

From self-service chatbots to faster loan decisions, next-generation banking needs big data to be crunched in real time or it won’t deliver the level of service customers expect.

The 3 dumbest things enterprises do in the cloud

The enterprise move to the cloud is on. Don’t let these dumb mistakes trip up your migration

Be Curious and Learn: Modern Fortran in a Nutshell

Introducing the ASP.Net Core MVC framework

The ASP.Net Core MVC framework enables you to build applications that are loosely-coupled, responsive, fast and easier to test and maintain

8 reasons web beats native for data-driven apps

For data-rich business applications, web technologies offer big advantages to both developers and users

Thinking twice: Data science or MBA?

The growing demand for business data roles and data-driven managers is pushing salaries to a point that one should consider a data science degree versus an MBA for management positions

IT planning is dead

My big takeaway from Forrester's Digital Transformation conference? IT planning as we know it is a thing of the past

Making a business case for Alexa