Several of us enjoy an eclectic mix of music. I, for instance, like to start my day with soothing classical music on most weekdays. But it’s jazz that helps me unwind and relax on the evenings I get home early. Sunday afternoons are when you can tune in to the oldies if you join me ...

Leaving your 9 – 5 job to work from home is like jumping out of the fry pan into the fire. You make the move while hoping for some relief like getting rid of the hectic routines and to work for yourself so that you can earn more by working less, but you end up ...

According to a 2012 Ponemon Institute study, more than 60 percent of enterprise users store business confidential data in Dropbox. That is an extremely frightening statistic to any IT department. While services like Dropbox, Google Drive and others provide workers tremendous productivity benefits, they still lack many controls designed to keep corporate data secure and ...

When Red Hat announced $1 billion in annual revenue earlier this year, I was cheering for a couple of reasons. First, after having spent six great years at Red Hat championing the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, I was thrilled for my many former colleagues. But more importantly, I was cheering because the perfect ...

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 ...