Companies spend millions of dollars to get an edge from the data they own. However, all too often their efforts are out of balance. Data is hoarded without a clear purpose, and not nearly enough time is invested in capturing and analyzing the data about the data: the metadata. The fact of the matter is ...

It’s hard to look at a tech blog these days without seeing something about “continuous” this and “continuous” that. Market pressures and consumer demand are prompting businesses to adopt Continuous Delivery (CD), a design practice used in software development to automate and improve the process of software delivery. Right now, adoption rates for CD are ...

In “Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups,” Aileen Lee suggested that only .07 percent of venture-backed consumer and enterprise software startups ever achieve billion-dollar valuations. That’s one in every 1,538 companies that have taken seed funding since 2003. The lesson is that while venture capital produces many singles and doubles, home runs are incredibly rare occurrences. ...

Data lakes and data streams are becoming common analogies in the discussion around analytics and potential enterprise big data strategies. The analogies are appropriate from several aspects beyond just visualizing different approaches to accessing useful information. As in nature, both lakes and streams have their individual characteristics and are each important to the overall ecosystem. The question is not whether one ...

Network Access and Monitoring appliances, or what the market has now christened Network Packet Brokers (NPBs), are currently the hottest sector of the network appliance market since the 1990s dot-com explosion. Last summer saw the successful IPO and billion dollar valuation of Gigamon. Net Optics was picked up a month ago for $190 million in ...

Editor’s Note: “We’re huge fans of open source, as is our guest author Neil Levine, the vice president of Product for Inktank. But it’s not all rose water…here’s Levine’s perspective, who argues that open source is going to find its way into mainstream data centers. Learning from many perspectives, we’d love to hear what you’re doing with ...

by Anne Ward Last week, Box announced their intentions to file for IPO. This comes on the heels of Google’s announcement a couple weeks ago that they will offer one terabyte (TB) of data for only $9.99 a month. Both announcements have had a chilling effect in Silicon Valley and beyond, because it could easily ...

Certified public accountants (CPAs) and tax-preparation firms all over the country are racing against the clock to meet income tax deadlines for their clients. Tax professionals have already filed more than 27.3 million returns this year, and of those about 96 percent have been filed electronically, according to reports from AccountingWeb. For tax professionals during tax season, no ...

I’ve subscribed to the popular Amazon Prime service for three years and have frequently used their free shipping without any complaints. It’s prompted me to buy things beyond books and media that I likely would have shopped elsewhere for – cameras, household items, clothing. A few days ago they announced a 25 percent price jump – from ...

Many companies today are adopting the term ‘Software-Defined Data Center.’ Some refer to it as extending the notions of abstraction, pooling and automation to all data center resources – such as the traditional areas compute, network and storage as well as the power and cooling. Equally important is the ability to be able to manage all of this via ...