In today’s world, going alone has few benefits. This is doubly true in the tech industry, as companies who do their own thing don’t just have to reinvent the wheel, but also maintain it forever after. Collaboration and partnerships are key to doing effective business, and a common meeting ground for such collaboration is open-source ...

Any business that runs just one or two applications isn’t a modern business. These days, companies are more likely to use a bunch of tools than just a few. Those tools must be managed, yet wrangling applications becomes more complex with each one thrown on the pile. The solution is consistent automation across the whole ...

The cloud is an interesting place. One reason is the services supplied by cloud providers can replace many applications to gain organization-wide efficiencies. However, that scenario really only works for the public cloud. Private and hybrid clouds are locked behind walls with strict controls on what can run there. Mike Ferris (pictured), vice president of technical ...

Partnerships and platforms has been the rallying cry for many tech companies recently. In general, the tech world has realized that no one business can do everything alone. The open-source community has proved a crucial meeting ground for partnerships, providing the platforms and common standards companies need to make their products compatible with legacy information ...

The digital transformation of business is a work in progress, leaving many enterprises straddling the hybrid information technology fence. Most companies run a host of legacy systems that aren’t going anywhere. At the same time, those businesses are looking to build new systems in the cloud. Getting in-house infrastructure to talk to the cloud is ...

Networking is often considered the second-class citizen of the computing world. So long as it works, no one at the top really cares how. Network administrators, for their part, are very conservative about making changes to networks. These factors all slow innovation in the networking field. Still, innovation is happening, and companies are opening up to ...

Each business has its own reasons for coming to the cloud. For many, the benefits lie in scaling and automation. Unlike on-premises data centers, the cloud scales easily by simply buying more compute. Services in the cloud handle tasks across all the company’s data. One company taking advantage of these benefits is LogistiCare Solutions LLC, which partnered with information ...

To be a modern developer is to be trapped between the past and the future. On one side, technology is changing at an increasing pace. On the other, ancient legacy systems that companies use for their daily tasks aren’t going anywhere. Open-source resources are helping developers bridge this gap between the old and the new, ...

Everyone with a product to sell knows that having an interested customer doesn’t guarantee a purchase, nor does a sale always lead to repeat business. Customers who are going to buy know what they want and why. A marketer’s job is to get that information to the customer, and more importantly, make sure they understand it, according ...

Artificial intelligence is the next step in business computing. For AI to be successful, though, it needs more than just good programming. It needs data. The quality of that data determines how useful the output will be. Likewise, the distance between the data and processing limits how fast it can move, according to Steve Krause ...