There are two phrases that define the next generation of business computing: Big Data and ecosystem. Hadoop, an open-source platform for Big Data, succeeds in both these arenas. As the community adopts Hadoop, so must bigger players up the chain. Now, the Hadoop framework is entering the enterprise world. With it comes a community dedicated ...

Ecosystem is a new word for the world of business, but it becomes more important every day. In the tech world, especially, there’s no one solution, and no one company that can provide every product. To do business in the modern world means cultivating an ecosystem of partners, customers, third parties and legacy support. Developing those ...

The goal of hyper-convergence is to make things simple. By bringing systems together under one digital roof, developers are freed to focus on better things than running infrastructure. However, it’s possible for a company to run into the problem where every Cloud has its own particular needs and every install its own unique demands. Soon ...

Applications must be portable. That’s the lesson modern businesses are learning as applications are freed from their silos and move to the Cloud. The challenge is adapting an application, especially an older one, to the modern, ever-changing environment. The answer lies in containers, a technology for running applications from any platform on any platform. The ...

Technology changes. These two words define both the benefit and the curse of modern business. No one wants to reprovision their infrastructure to match every turn or twist in the marketplace, and very few companies have the resources to do so, in any case. The result is a lot of legacy applications serving products and ...

The modern tech business is all about networking infrastructure. For a leading company, the power to communicate effectively with its IT assets is vital. However, that same networking can be a wall to development process; how does a team develop for an environment that is always shifting and changing? Removing the networking concern is a ...

Mobile is more than just a way for companies to get an app on a customer’s phone. Mobile is also a power to provide new services and to shape the customer experience with location-based interactions. The world moves, both people and products. Technology to track and take advantage of that movement will be part of ...

Technology changes. It’s easy to say this, but to see the foundations of the tech world shift in a few years is quite something else. In the data storage world, the shift is from spinning disk to flash storage. As costs come down and capacity goes up, flash is set to overtake the traditional tech ...

As the saying goes, it’s who you know. In business, partnerships can be an effective way to bring skills and capability to a company without having to build up from scratch. In the tech world, this is doubly true, and so companies are reaching out to find the right partners for their business needs. To ...

Scale is both a blessing and a curse. On the good side, scaling allows a business to collect more data, do more processing, and recover more insights from their information. The downside is that data must be protected. When faced with exponential data growth, traditional techniques aren’t on the table anymore. Increasingly, businesses must consider ...