Opinion

Securing containerized applications: automate, automate, automate

How vulnerability management, security policy enforcement, and threat prevention can move at the speed of continuous delivery

In the cloud, you don’t need a college degree

Employers want people who can deliver effective solutions, regardless of where they learned their skills

Why APIs are key to closing the IT delivery gap

As a technological revolution takes hold and turns entire industries upside down, companies of all sizes are turning to APIs to speed up.

Has Ubuntu Linux become boring?

Also in today’s open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Minimal Linux Live. And how do you choose a Linux browser?

Working with the DotMemory Unit framework

The DotMemory Unit framework from JetBrains can be used to analyze memory usage, write unit tests, and detect memory issues in .Net apps

Subscriptions are more than just flipping a switch

Software-based business is here to stay. Staying agile is key to adopting new models in an increasingly subscription-based world.

What the enterprise cloud really means

Oracle's Bob Weiler weighs in on his company's SaaS-centric enterprise cloud strategy and the long, complex march from on-premises to the public cloud

Intel’s Student Ambassador Program: Artificial Intelligence for College Students

Teaching Parallel Programming: Teach Early and Often, and Try These Resources

Let’s Make ‘Adaptive’ a Programming Technique

Puerto Rico is becoming the onshore destination of choice for software engineering

Amidst diverse options for outsourcing software engineering projects, many U.S. companies are finding best options are closer to home

Apple AirPods are to IoT what iPhone was to cellphones

The arrival of the AirPod is going to change the way we interact with computers, and it will merge the physical world around us with a virtual augmented world

How to measure the execution time using PostSharp

PostSharp's AOP capabilities help you profile methods and identify the slow running methods in your application

The barrier to cloud security isn’t the technology

Cloud security requires that we blend the old with the new. In too many enterprises, this proves to be a political challenge

SAS, Canonical turn silly over open source

One vendor incites fear of open source software, the other continues to oversell it. Neither is correct

3 reasons to hire a cognitive developer in 2017

As the shift to cognitive computing accelerates, organizations need cognitive developers who can lead them through this digital transformation

3 keys to enterprise-grade Bluetooth beacons

Mist Systems combines cloud intelligence with on-premise access points to deliver accurate indoor location services

Stupid wireless mouse trick mesmerizes CFO

Any day you can prank the CFO is a good day for a techie

If IFTTT can’t, then Microsoft Flow can

Miss Yahoo Pipes? Microsoft's low-code tool for application mashups does a better job in meeting business needs

First look: Android O developer preview

With a scattershot set of improvements, the new Android version is a fairly minor affair, but there’s nothing that does harm

5 risky suppliers to watch using cognitive computing

How to continue doing business in an era of growing risk

Raise Your Hand and Ask: What’s an ‘N-Body Simulation’?

Easy on the Eyes: Free and Effective Graphic Performance Analysis

With deep learning, the data-rich get richer

Why AIaaS will dominate business applications for deep learning.

Calculate your cloud costs with this simple formula

Cloudops is an ongoing expense that too many enterprises don't properly estimate, putting critical operations at risk. Here's how to get the number right

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10

Abusing users via in-OS ads, secretive monitoring, and iffy upgrades is a bad strategy, especially given the doubts fostered by Windows 8 and Vista

C# 7 in depth : Exploring local functions

Local functions enable you to define a function within the scope of another method to help in promoting encapsulation and bring local variables into scope

Is Linux Mint a secure distribution?

Also in today’s open source roundup: Distraction-free writing at the command line with WordGrinder, and desktop Linux just keeps getting better and better

From chaos to containers

Modernizing IT always takes longer than you think it will, in part because Silicon Valley often has trouble escaping its own echo chamber

How to get the most out of data, services in a multi-cloud world

Hybrid cloud platforms continue to grow, and enterprises must ensure their clouds are integrated in the most strategic manner

Why the U.S. should give tax breaks to cloud adopters

India wants to subsidize cloud adoption, but America is considering taxing it. We’d all be better off if the government instead used tax policy to favor the cloud

Kellyanne Conway’s microwave story is half-cooked

While any IoT device can potentially pose a network threat, microwaves don't turn into cameras, contrary to what the President's counselor said

5 web analytics tools every business needs

For deep insights into how users interact with your website or app, look no further than these affordable tools

Data governance as an accelerator, not a roadblock

Unified data governance is becoming a critical strategy for data-driven organizations

8 free alternatives to Windows and MacOS

Also in today’s open source roundup: Why you should begin with the terminal in Linux, and MATE 1.18 has been released

.Net Framework or .Net Core? When to use which

With so many .Net implementations, which should you use? And what do all those new names mean?

Rejected! 3 lies sink tech contenders

In a hot job market, good hires are crucial, but sometimes, a resume can be too good to be true

Why Splunk keeps beating open source competitors

Arguably the first widely used big data tool, Splunk provides the kind of end-to-end user experience open source solutions lack

March Madness: Bringing cloud-based automation to a whole new level of play

The cloud is helping a sports management firm to up its game in real-time deployment of tournament brackets, scores, and standings

Is Google Cloud experiencing challenges going upmarket?

Google's first day keynote did not go down well within the community, focusing on enterprise and with nothing really new to say, but it made up for it on the second day

Is Windows 10 an operating system or an advertising platform?

Also in today’s open source roundup: What’s wrong with the Linux file system? And Manjaro Linux 17.0 has been released

Office 365 everywhere? Not on these devices

Microsoft still can't decide if it can commit to a world that's not about Windows alone

The path to cloud success goes through your data

Here are the three key capabilities you need to succeed in the cloud once you’re operational

Lessons learned from the recent AWS S3 outage

Cross-region replication and backups can help applications survive regional cloud service outages.

How to work with the Visitor design pattern

The Visitor design pattern provides flexibility in your designs by enabling you to define a new operation without needing to change the types of the elements on which it would operate

Linux: The best distros for newbies?

Also in today’s open source roundup: How Android devices get hacked, and Munich’s IT provider says there’s no technical reason to switch back to Windows

Google Cloud sharpens its enterprise strategy

Google used to rely mainly on its technical bona fides to sell its cloud, but now it's meeting customers halfway with new enterprise-friendly capabilities and support

Containers are right for many cloud apps—but not all

Beware the common technologist trap of doing something because it is trendy rather than figuring out if it’s actually the right move

How digital transformation disrupted the storage industry

There is exponentially more data and more users of data in digital enterprises. That means there must be a fundamental difference in how that data is stored and managed.

Recent Amazon outage highlights need for cloud automation

How did a handful of businesses go undisturbed by the service interruption? With robots, of course.