Cloud Computing
Opinion
6 things to look for in a cloud consultant
How do you separate quality cloud consultants from the clowns? If you don't have a screening checklist in place — and let's face it, you probably don't — this short list of behaviors and policies is a good place to start.Tech Activist
Open Media Project increases government transparency with technology
Real politics and law making isn’t riveting nor easy to follow. Long debates and votes scheduled at varying times make government hard to follow. How can the public stay abreast of legislation on issues that matter to them with hundreds of hearings at thousands of locations? rnrnNew technologies from Open Media Project make it possible for even small city councils to record and share their deliberations. Sessions are recorded and shared online though free tools such as YouTube. Google Transcript uses speech recognition technology to automatically create a transcript of the what is said in the recording. Captions are added to the videos along with time code information to synchronize the caption timing with the video.It’s Open
How Microsoft helped Docker with LinuxKit and Moby Project
Microsoft and Docker have been working together for over three years now, and this collaboration has led to the creation of LinuxKit and Moby Project.rn
Applying Theory to Practice in IT
Embrace the hybrid cloud by dispelling security and latency myths
Enterprise leaders are embracing the cloud but remain concerned about hybrid cloud performance and security–two challenges that can be managed more easily than many realize.It’s Open
How to containerize your legacy apps without sweating
Docker, along with its partners, has created a program called Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) to containerize legacy applications without changing a single line of code.
News
MongoDB database as a service offering goes global
MongoDB's Atlas database as a service offering is now available in 14 Amazon Web services regions, giving users around the globe the capability to co-locate the operational database service near the applications it powers.It’s Open
Why Docker created the Moby Project
The Moby Project is a framework that allows anyone to assemble their own container system. Here's the backstory.It’s Open
What is LinuxKit and why does it matter?
LinuxKit allows you to build your own lean and mean containerized operating system.rn
News Analysis
What’s behind VMware’s Wavefront acquisition?
Wavefront's software is designed to help CIOs monitor cloud systems at a time when most IT departments are speeding up application deployment with DevOps.
Best-Fit Enterprise Software
Conflict-of-interest traps ensnare enterprise software implementations
Avoiding these two conflict-of-interest situations helps ensure the software you select meets your needs and the implementation is completed on time and on budget.
Technology Insights
Why CEOs believe problem solving through data is the future of business
The collective CEO future vision is one where technology and data enabled capabilities will be the future of business decision making, but many IT decision-makers still experience challenges regarding 'problem solving through data.'
News
Databricks lays production data pipelines
The new Databricks for Data Engineering edition of the Apache Spark-based cloud platform is optimized for combining SQL, structured streaming, ETL and machine learning workloads running on Spark.
Tour de Salesforce
CRM implementation: Change is hard but it's worth it
Implementing new CRM like Salesforce requires stopping and examining your processes. But there are ways to do it right.
Best-Fit Enterprise Software
Avoid ambiguity when writing requirements for software purchases
Ambiguous requirements can lead to purchasing software that doesn't meet expectations. Here are some simple techniques for avoiding ambiguities in your requirements.
Feature
Could Amazon become an enterprise collaboration contender?
Amazon has a series of apps that compete with Office 365 and G Suite, but they currently aren’t packaged and sold as a collective portfolio. Here’s how Amazon could become a major player in business software.
Semi Truths
Bringing consumers back into the fold
IBM has mostly abandoned the consumer segment over the past decade and a half. It no longer sells endpoints to individuals. But it does provide cloud services consumed by individuals. The Weather Company, which IBM bought in early 2016, is one example. More recently, it has mounted an effort to provide cognitive computing, via services like Watson, to consumers in smart homes. It hopes to do so not directly, but through channels like communications providers, which already have strong relationships with consumers.
Building a Digital Enterprise
How a data-driven culture enables innovation and empowerment in an adaptive enterprise
How to make the most of the data that fuels the digital economy and drives business transactions.Tech Activist
How tech activists harness purchasing power to bring about change
Activists launch collective actions with Twitter, Facebook, Google Apps and YouTube. Grab Your Wallet and SleepingGiant show how online campaigns can bring about change.
Business of Data
Database elasticity: The primary challenge for digital transformation
In recent years we have seen an accelerating trend of IT becoming increasingly strategic to business, not least in the enterprise. Under the banner of Digital Transformation, businesses large and small are making strategic commitments to technology as a primary driver of competitive success. There is broad acceptance that Every Company is a Software Company.rnrnLike so many of these things, it sounds right, and it’s a valuable insight. All of us need to take seriously the idea that we need to engage energetically and relentlessly in Digital Transformation. But of course embracing the concept is a lot easier than translating that concept to effective plans. “Sign me up” is the easy part; “Now what?” is the hard part.rn
Feature
University CIO calls on cloud phone service
Georgetown University’s move to the cloud comes as part of a telecommunications strategy shift aimed at lowering costs while embracing technologies for its digital shift.
News
Why Google BigQuery excels at BI on big data concurrency
Should you use Hadoop for your big data business intelligence needs? BigQuery? What's the difference between on-premises Hadoop, in-cloud Hadoop and a serverless model like Google BigQuery's? A new benchmark from AtScale seeks to help you navigate those questions.
Feature
5 reasons developers love containers
Developers are a driving force behind the adoption of container technology in general and Docker in particular. Here's why.Movers and Shakers
The path to IT shared services and standardization
Valmont Industries’ CIO, John Kehoe, discusses how taking an enterprise view allows IT to be more strategic.Tip
Tech Titans Talk: The IDG Enterprise Interview Series
In the IDG Enterprise Interview Series, you'll hear from technology CIOs and CEOs on today's burgeoning trends, ongoing headaches and upcoming product plans. Check out this informative series from IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and his team of editors.
Engineer for What’s Next
Software companies should be disrupting industries, not workflows
The software world needs to stop getting distracted by the competition.
Transform IT to a Service
The cloud's undone business revolution: the embarrassing report
Why IT without IT and managed ITaaS are the next IT standards.Tech Activist
Is open source the transformative solution for activism?
Organizing hundreds of events simultaneously with millions of participants demands a robust, scalable architecture. Grassroots campaigns with limited budgets, typically don't have access to such resources. Experienced developers have adopted open source, OSDI APIs and AWS CDN to empower the progressive movement.The ROI of Enterprise IT
Tech partnerships in the age of Tinder
With the pace and frequency of tech partnership announcements in the age of cloud and Tinder, is there any staying power – or real value – in partnership announcements?It’s Open
The wrap: Ubuntu 16.04 comes to Windows 10, Galaxy S8 announced, Red Hat reports 2017 revenue
In this week’s open source wrap-up: Ubuntu 16.04 comes to Windows users; Red Hat FY17 revenue hits $2.4 billion; Samsung announces Galaxy S8 and continues to be at odds with Google over software; and rkt was accepted into CNCF.rn
How-To
How to evaluate domestic IT service provider locations
The uncertainty of the future of the H-1B visa program is causing businesses to take a closer look at U.S. IT service delivery locations.Tech’s New Wave
How Procore brought the cloud to the $10 trillion construction industry
Construction is one of the biggest industries on the planet, yet still relies heavily on pens and clipboards. This cloud startup has done more than any other company to change that.
Creating IT Value
Potential Oracle acquisition of Accenture brings new digital twist
This morning’s news in the UK’s leading IT publication, The Register, announced that Oracle has hired specialists to conduct due diligence on synergies and impacts of Oracle acquiring Accenture. Obviously, the feasibility study is at an early stage, and neither of the giant companies is commenting on the news and it might not happen. But what if it does?
Feature
G Suite vs. Office 365 cloud collaboration battle heats up
Microsoft's Office 365 has a big lead, but Google is quickly repositioning G Suite for business and winning some big customers. Who will come out on top in this rapidly evolving market?
It’s Open
Cloud Foundry certification program looks to train cloud developers
The Cloud Foundry Certified Developer program will be delivered in partnership with the Linux Foundation.It’s Open
Core OS offers Tectonic preview for Microsoft Azure
In addition to offering a preview for Microsoft Azure, Core OS has also improved the installer to offer customization options.rnTech Activist
The revolution will not be televised – it’ll be computerized
Political campaigns are a stress test of organizing skills. Only candidates who do well in the initial caucuses and primaries proceed in the campaign. It’s essential to organize, raise funds and expand quickly. Systems and infrastructure have to be built with limited time, budgets and manpower.It’s Open
Microsoft OneDrive slowness irks Linux users; Netflix supports Linux on Firefox
In this week’s open source wrap, Linux users faced performance issues with Microsoft’s online services, Netflix went official with Linux support, and Gnome introduced night mode to the Linux desktop.rn
Transform IT to a Service
Transform your IT from cash-eater to profit-maker with managed IT as a service
How to transform IT in a record time with the ITaaS delivery model.
News
Adobe takes aim at customer experience, partners with Microsoft
With its new Experience Cloud offering, Adobe seeks to help enterprises optimize customer experiences. And working with Microsoft and other partners, it will create a standard semantic data model to make it easier to customize apps, capture behavioral data and glean insights.Feature
Windows Server on ARM is for Azure only
What makes the work of porting code to the ARM instruction set worthwhile is both the scale of cloud and the kind of services Microsoft runs in Azure. The economics works for cloud, not your data centers.
Feature
Why your cloud strategy should include multiple vendors
Cloud computing has become a staple of most enterprise computing environments, but CIOs are still sweating over whether to use one or more infrastructure-as-a-service provider.
It’s Open
Docker and Core OS plan to donate their container technologies to CNCF
The Linux Foundation will become home to yet another critical technology.rnNews
Google splits Hangouts in half
Google introduced a rebuilt Hangouts for the enterprise and added features to its G Suite productivity apps at Google Cloud Next.
News Analysis
Google gobbles up more big-name cloud customers
Google, saying the enterprise cloud is a natural extension of its mission, announced new customers and tools for the enterprise at its largest business conference to date.
Tech’s New Wave
What the Snap IPO means for the future of cloud infrastructure
The Snapchat parent will have no choice but to build its own computing and networking systems. Luckily, it's a good time to do just that using open source technology.News Analysis
MongoDB adds free tier and migration utility to cloud service
Seeking to reduce barriers to entry, NoSQL database specialist MongoDB has added a free tier to its MongoDB Atlas database-as-a-service (DaaS) offering. The company has also announced a new utility to make it easier to migrate data from existing deployments into the service.The Modern Enterprise
Time for facility inspections to become digital
A mobile, digital inspection platform offers advantages over paper- or spreadsheet-based facility inspection forms.Feature
Why email is safer in Office 365 than on your Exchange server
Beyond blocking spam and virus-laden messages, cloud services can determine whether links are safe to visit and whether you’re protecting the right information.
Advanced IT Strategies
Banking-as-a-Service and the survival of banks in the digital age
Banks have traditionally been considered pioneers of process automation, but they are currently in the background of today’s digitized, customer-driven financial services landscape. The disruption of traditional banking grows stronger worldwide, and banks must reinvent their services to meet today’s device-obsessed consumers expectations.It’s Open
Docker draws distinctions between enterprise and community editions
The company that popularized container technology has fine tuned its marketing strategy, creating enterprise and community editions of Docker.rn
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