Over the past five years, applications have undergone a paradigm shift. They now require more agility, scalability and availability. The key trends in this era are driven by the use of social platforms, mobile devices and software as a service (SaaS). Being able to ingest large amounts of data from various sources and process that data in […]
Will Deduplication Solutions Work for Cassandra?
Cassandra is a popular next-generation database system (NoSQL) that powers the back end of high-performance web-scale applications in enterprises. It is database software for cloud applications that accelerates the organizations’ ability to power the growing number of cloud applications that require data distribution across data centers and clouds. While Cassandra offers high availability, it also […]
How to Fail at Test Automation
Let me start by admitting that I am not a test automation expert. I have done some work with test automation and have supervised teams who practiced it, but when it comes to the intricacies of it, I have to call a friend. It is from such friends that I have learned why so many […]
The 3 Compliance Questions to Ask
As companies move to cloud, they require more certainty around export compliance. Of the many complexities associated with cloud computing, export compliance laws arguably are some of the thorniest. From a legal and technical perspective, the export compliance laws currently on the books—as they vary from country to country—can make even the savviest and most […]
DevOps Without Scale, Part 1
When most people think of DevOps, what comes to mind first are continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) pipelines. While they are arguably the most important parts of DevOps, they are not all of it. So, then, what is DevOps? It is a philosophy of how to build and operate software products and systems […]
4 Tech Imperatives in 2016 to Prepare for Tomorrow
Around the start of every new year come a bevy of predictions about what’s coming (or what someone, or some vendor, or some analyst hopes is coming) in the year ahead. Rather than do that, based on recent conversations with many CIOs, I’ve collected what I think are imperative to-do’s for CIOs and IT leaders […]
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