The Holberton School is a new hybrid of trade and higher-education institution that offers a unique approach to real-world software engineering training. Unlike a four-year education, learning at Holberton is completely focused around project-based learning with an emphasis on peer-to-peer collaboration and mentoring. “Even within my own cohort, there’s different levels of knowledge, so I’m always ...

Neha Jain (pictured), senior software engineer at LinkedIn Corp., was recently honored at the CloudNow Top 10 Women in Cloud Innovation awards as a prominent female technology professional responsible for data center migration during the acquisition of SlideShare. Jain explained that since her childhood, she had always been driven by a responsibility to deliver meaningful outcomes, ...

Techstars 2016 graduate IOpipe Inc., a company that provides performance monitoring on Amazon Lambda-based applications, has capitalized on the momentum around serverless computing. IOpipe’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Erica Windisch (pictured), was just awarded a Top 10 Women in Cloud Innovation award from CloudNOW, the executive consortium for the leading women in cloud and converging technologies. Windisch recently explained ...

The Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project was founded more than 20 years ago with the mission of educating children and eliminating poverty in rural communities in India. The Project’s model completely intervenes in a student’s life for more than 17 years, providing upward mobility for both the participants and their entire communities. “The way we achieve this goal ...

Technical ability hasn’t always been the most important factor for one woman’s career in the technology sector. A recent honoree of CloudNow’s innovation awards, Caroline Wong (pictured) cites teamwork and an appreciation for life outside of the office as critical to her success.  “It is about teamwork, and it turns out what has helped me ...

At the 6th Annual CloudNOW Top 10 Women in Cloud Innovation Awards, women in leadership positions celebrated the diversity in thought that women are bringing to the technology industry. As exemplified by one of the honorees, a non-technical background can sometimes be beneficial in highly creative technology roles.  “So what I do for Verizon is I come up ...

While the number of public schools teaching computer science in the United States has grown in recent years, the majority lack programs in this crucial subject, according to a recent survey by Google LLC and Gallup. Finding ways to extend computer science education to more students takes on a unique and specialized spin at Code.org. Awarded ...

Women in technology leadership roles came together during the annual CloudNOW Top 10 Women in Cloud Innovation Awards to discuss the progress women are making in tech, as well as the current cultural, political and economic challenges still being faced by women. This year’s event included a showing of the trailer of a groundbreaking documentary The ...

The large consumer-facing platforms like Facebook Inc., Google LLC, Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics America Inc. are all vying to gain market share and attract more sources of valuable consumer data. These platforms interface with everything from smart home appliances to augmented reality gaming on mobile devices. The key to platform growth is a healthy developer ...

The Securities and Investment Company, based in the Middle East, was originally built on a traditional on-premises banking system. But that infrastructure eventually impeded the bank’s agility and competitive edge in its marketplace. To become more competitive, the company migrated to a modern, scalable architecture, ultimately transitioning to hyperconverged infrastructure. “The challenge was to move ...