For companies that are in dire need of software engineers, trying to find talent can be like dousing a four-alarm fire—they need top developers, and they need them now. Recent statistics underscore this sense of urgency. Dice.com, for example, lists about 7,000 available software engineer jobs on any given day, while a survey by Nova ...

Web Apps vs. Native Apps, a topic that still excites readers to this day, as if it were anticipated that one side will win and the other will lose. Contrary to popular belief, the discussion doesn’t need to produce a winner and a loser. Instead of classifying apps as web apps or as native apps, ...

As technologists, we should consider ourselves very fortunate to be at the rediscovery of the Internet and its behaviors. It’s the “Era of Data”. The Internet and its users are evolving. The best way for companies and individuals to fully understand and respond to these changes is to carefully observe behavior and analyze data. From ...

The term API (Application Programming Interface) has become one of those terms being used at all levels of business from the boardroom to developer teams.  Many companies are now hiring for API strategy roles while others are leveraging internal champions to drive their API strategy. This is new area for many companies and as such ...

Storage industry technology has once again become the hot trend due to the advent and adoption of flash storage.  The changing dynamics of cloud-based architectures and our insatiable appetite for big data have driven companies to think about how they can turn infrastructure spend – and particularly their storage –into a profit engine.  As a former professor ...

According to various surveys, about half of all organizations are either using or evaluating Hadoop for Big Data analytics.  Hadoop has become a strategic platform for analyzing Big Data because it provides a purpose-built and cost-effective way to capture, organize, store, search, share, and analyze disparate data (whether structured, semi-structured and/or unstructured) across a large ...

While we mostly agree Big Data is that which constitutes some combination of the 4 V’s – it does have other attributes, which are generally driven by the specific industry and overall business use-case. According to Gartner Group’s Big Data Hype Cycle report issued in July: “Although Big Data is not necessarily just about MapReduce ...

According to U.S. Census report released in late July, the U.S. lost roughly 223,800 small businesses between 2008 and 2010, representing a loss of 3.1 million jobs. Even though these figures are from two years ago, prospects for SMBs haven’t returned to pre-recession levels. Small businesses have been growing and hiring slowly since the height ...

So, you’ve decided to build a private IaaS cloud. Great idea! By encouraging self-service IT in your organization, you’ve made your support staff happier by reducing their workload and you’ve made your users happier by giving them instant access to the resources they want. Now your users won’t be hounding the IT department (as much) ...

It’s no secret that mobile apps are all the rage. Last year, tap-happy consumers downloaded more than 30 billion of them—that’s almost 1,000 per second—and show no signs of slowing down. In fact, some experts are predicting that app downloads will reach nearly 100 billion by 2015. The insatiable demand for apps is now moving ...