Those of us who manage project teams know the value of predictable, repeatable, and high-quality project execution. When we don’t meet that bar, a cascade of side effects occurs, ranging from poor team morale to a loss of faith in our abilities by stakeholders, clients, and management.  If your team is struggling to consistently achieve ...

Today in the United States, 7,214 people will die. And again tomorrow, and the next day and so on. That’s 300 deaths per hour, 5 per minute, and just under 1 per second. In 1990, we saw 5,700 deaths per day. That’s an increase of almost 27% over 22 years. Something else was a bit ...

We live in interesting times. Like most people in the world I know what it’s like to have received a poor customer experience from a large company and to feel powerless in receiving a positive outcome.  Traditionally, the balance of power in the customer-company relationship has been firmly in the hands of business and, like ...

Remember the days when tech-support told you to ‘defrag’ your PC when RAM was low causing your desktop to take far too long to boot-up and run applications? Remember how long that process would take? You, like me, probably had to leave the PC running overnight to complete the process. Good news is those days ...

Graphs are everywhere. From websites adding social capabilities, to telcos providing personalized customer services, to innovative bioinformatics research, organizations are integrating graphs into their web sites. Many high profile companies are specifically adopting graph databases to solve social graph complexities and meet the high query performance levels required at Internet scale. As websites scale from ...

This week, a startup called Limited Run made headlines when they went public with news that the majority of their Facebook ad clicks were coming from bots. The startup was rightfully upset that they were only receiving 20% human clicks from their ad buy, and ultimately decided to delete their Facebook account. Ad clicks aren’t ...

If there is one topic in computing, networking and storage that is commanding attention these days, it’s Big Data.  We read about it in the media, we hear about it at conferences and seminars, we learn about it in podcasts and webinars.  In fact, we can now even enroll in courses of study on it. ...

As brands go head to head for consumers dollars and advertising space rates increase, companies are realizing they need to be more strategic with their messaging to reach their target audience. What better way than to ask their potential consumers? However, traditional methods of collecting data from consumers surrounding brands need to be supplemented by new ones, which ...

Social gaming is a “hits” business.  There are a large number of social games that are developed but a relatively small number make it big.  Every developer’s dream is to have their game go viral and shoot to the top of the download and DAU charts. In this environment, selecting the right database is more ...

You don’t have to look far to stumble across a company that has seen its once-stellar growth evolve to a point where the customer base stagnates. While business seemingly remains steady, the number of customers simply isn’t growing. Is the market saturated? Of course not! So why does this happen, and how can you begin ...