Opinion

How flash changes the storage equation

As the enterprise transitions from disk to flash, the focus shifts from optimizing for performance to optimizing for capacity

Software development: It’s about the journey, not the finish line

Software development success should be defined by continuous learning and innovation, not just the completion of projects

Public shaming and Internet bullies on parade

Thanks to Twitter, Facebook, and today's media outlets, public humiliation is moving at the speed of the Internet, and there's no stopping it

Why you need to control your data supply chain

Similarly to traditional businesses, data businesses deal with a supply chain. Today, Twitter — one of the largest data businesses in the world — is consolidating its own supply chain. Do you need to do the same?

New Azure PaaS aims to make Microsoft the microservices maestro

With Azure Service Fabric, the same PaaS that Microsoft uses to build and deploy microservices applications on Azure will be offered to the world

Users in pre-production? It can work for IT

Granting early access to IT project stakeholders is not always a bad move

Online identity: Where collaboration and innovation get stuck

Innovation and collaboration go together, but to work together across platforms we need a user-controlled, independent identity scheme

Programming the Object Services Layer in Entity Framework

Leverage the Object Services Layer in ADO.Net Entity Framework to reduce the impedance mismatch between the object and data models in your application

IT’s cloud security concerns do not correlate to actual failures

Yet another research report highlights IT fears, but don't confuse security concerns with security failures

For Android, adware is the threat, not malware

Security alarmists have grossly exaggerated the risk of mobile devices — and the cost of security breaches

What if Microsoft really did open-source Windows?

When Microsoft said it wouldn't rule out putting Windows in the open source domain, people scoffed — but it could be a shrewd business move for the cloud era

Take advantage of Unit Testing to reduce errors in the development phase of your project

Leverage unit testing in your software development workflow to reduce or eliminate errors in your applications

Microsoft Nano Server and the future of devops

Lightweight operating systems like Nano Server and CoreOS provide an important piece of the platform for the fully programmable cloud infrastructure of tomorrow

Machine learning and the strategic snake oil reserve

Outside of programmatic trading and fraud detection, we're only starting to use machine learning in business. The biggest inhibitor may be our lack of imagination in applying it

Traction Watch: How Canva Reached 2 Million Users In 18 Months

Traction Watch: 4 Reasons Domo Will Double Its Revenue This Year

3 key focuses for a successful Windows admin career

Microsoft-centric IT pros can remain in the thick of the jobs action by digging deep into these three areas

Pompous professor swallows placebo PC

A tech pro's people skills are put to the test by a professor who demands more computing power than he knows how to handle

Software development and security in the WYOD age

The arrival of Apple Watch just gave IT a whole new headache

How ICANN enabled legal Website extortion

The .sucks domain was all fun and games until a greedy but enterprising Web registry decided to blackmail major corporations into paying up

How IT can manage the Apple Watch

There's only one explicit Apple Watch MDM policy, but more controls than you might realize

Improving on Git-flow for continuous delivery

While Git-flow provides workflow structure essential for devops, CD often requires bridging the gaps to other stakeholders

How PayPal beats the bad guys with machine learning

As big cloud players roll out machine learning tools to developers, Dr. Hui Wang of PayPal offers a peek at some of the most advanced work in the field

No, the data warehouse is not dead

Every surge in new tech prompts declarations that existing tech is circling the drain, but the data warehouse isn't going anywhere — in fact, it's healthier than ever

Dear Apple: Your upgrade policy sucks

Apple’s ‘my way or the highway’ upgrade policy for OS X really needs to change

A better way to capture team meetings

With Google's Hangouts on Air, you can skip the live note-taking and share a richly annotated recording instead

Facebook gives in on patent grant

After widespread criticism of the termination language in its patent grant, Facebook has removed the worst excesses

3 Android Wear mistakes that Apple Watch must avoid

Google's smartwatch tech is awkward, frustrating, and not very useful — and offers mistakes that Apple should avoid

The cloud scores NIH approval for gene research

Researchers' outcry convinced the federal medical research agency to reverse course and let them take advantage of the cloud

Traction Watch: How Spredfast Handled A Growth Bump

After merging with Mass Relevance, Spredfast had to absorb 150 new employees in a single day. This is how it managed its growth.

JavaScript will lead a massive shift in enterprise development

Forrester report says back-end JavaScript will transform corporate tech, just as Java once did

Traction Watch: Mixpanel Is Now Tracking 45 Billion User Actions Every Month

If you want to grow your business, you must measure the right things. That's the Mixpanel model. As it turns out, measuring how customers behave is a very big business.

Privacy and security should be the least of our tech fears

As technology takes over more and more of our lives, it threatens not only our privacy or security, but our very wiring

Big data is dead — long live big data

Soon, we'll see 'prepacked' applications that incorporate the distributed processing, machine learning, and analytics of today's overhyped, custom-made solutions

Client or grifter? The free work stops now

For far too long, a sneaky customer scams his way through the system to procure free work from unsuspecting developers

Take advantage of Office 365’s new MDM tools

You don't have to jump to Intune to take advantage of extra content and app management features in mobile Office

When organizational debt slows software projects down

When companies embark on new software projects, they too often ignore organizational idiosyncrasies that make software tougher to deliver. Having a culture that is particularly tied to broken processes is one such issue that should be addressed.

3 UX ideas for the new generation of mobile apps

Financial services tech firm FIS is trying out three approaches to smarter mobile apps that any developer should consider

Management is the key to effective cloud deployment

Although it's easier to focus on the sexier aspects of cloud computing, long-term operational health should be a core consideration

JavaScript experts: Microsoft’s new Spartan browser rocks

Nobody knows JavaScript like the folks at Famo.us, and the JavaScript engine and rendering pipeline in Windows 10's Spartan browser blew them away

Dawn of the data center operating system

How microservices architecture and Linux containers will tame distributed computing for developers and ops

Wisdom to code by, an illustrated guide to programmer proverbs

Behold age-old truths that software developers have learned over the years.

Choosing the right technology for building the service layer in .NET

My two cents on when to choose Web API over WCF as the technology for the service layer

3 lies about Google Glass

The conventional wisdom about Google's experimental smart glasses project is all wrong. Here's why

Transform your email server into a collaboration platform

Many attempts at business collaboration fail because they establish environments separate from email. Here's how one can become an extension of the other

Kludges are a scourge — except when they aren’t

You should know real kludges when you see them, but sometimes a quick hack turns out to be the best way to go

Washington launches a war of words on cyber security

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but apparently, executive orders may thwart cyber attacks — at least according to the government

Want better IT talent? Recruit remote workers

If you're struggling to find elite, high-quality tech talent locally, consider knocking down geographic barriers and embracing remote workers

Make sense of cloud service brokers

CSBs help you manage your mix of public and private clouds, but their capabilities vary widely

In praise of the iPad, 5 years on

With its touch tablet, Apple truly changed the world of tech — once again