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Software development : Staying ahead of the game with continuous delivery

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

It’s hard to look at a tech blog these days without seeing something about “continuous” this and “continuous” that. Market pressures and consumer demand are prompting businesses to adopt Continuous Delivery (CD), a design practice used in software development to automate and …

Chasing unicorns : Analyzing talent at the fastest growing companies

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

In “Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups,” Aileen Lee suggested that only .07 percent of venture-backed consumer and enterprise software startups ever achieve billion-dollar valuations. That’s one in every 1,538 companies that have taken seed funding since 2003. The lesson is that …

Diving into Big Data : Data lakes vs. data streams

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

Data lakes and data streams are becoming common analogies in the discussion around analytics and potential enterprise big data strategies. The analogies are appropriate from several aspects beyond just visualizing different approaches to accessing useful information. As in nature, both lakes and streams have their individual …

6 reasons why the network access and monitoring sector is sizzling

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

Network Access and Monitoring appliances, or what the market has now christened Network Packet Brokers (NPBs), are currently the hottest sector of the network appliance market since the 1990s dot-com explosion. Last summer saw the successful IPO and billion dollar valuation of …

The next generation data center : Fully open sourced

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

Editor’s Note: “We’re huge fans of open source, as is our guest author Neil Levine, the vice president of Product for Inktank. But it’s not all rose water…here’s Levine’s perspective, who argues that open source is going to find its way into mainstream data …

Google Drive’s price cut, Box’s IPO and what it could mean for the future of cloud tools

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

by Anne Ward Last week, Box announced their intentions to file for IPO. This comes on the heels of Google’s announcement a couple weeks ago that they will offer one terabyte (TB) of data for only $9.99 a month. Both announcements have …

3 steps to prevent system downtime during tax season

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

Certified public accountants (CPAs) and tax-preparation firms all over the country are racing against the clock to meet income tax deadlines for their clients. Tax professionals have already filed more than 27.3 million returns this year, and of those about 96 percent have been filed …

Amazon’s price increase is good for consumers – Like it or not

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

I’ve subscribed to the popular Amazon Prime service for three years and have frequently used their free shipping without any complaints. It’s prompted me to buy things beyond books and media that I likely would have shopped elsewhere for – cameras, household items, clothing. …

Peeling back the layers of the software- defined data center

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

Many companies today are adopting the term ‘Software-Defined Data Center.’ Some refer to it as extending the notions of abstraction, pooling and automation to all data center resources – such as the traditional areas compute, network and storage as well as the power and cooling. …

3 things to consider when upgrading WiFi for retail

NEWS By GUEST AUTHOR12 YEARS AGO

Shoppers today are no longer just confined to the brick-and-mortar retail experience. When retail customers walk into a store, they have more tools at their fingertips to access online shopping comparisons, store lookup, product search, online reviews and more, all via Wi-Fi on smartphones or …

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Software development : Staying ahead of the game with continuous delivery

Chasing unicorns : Analyzing talent at the fastest growing companies

Diving into Big Data : Data lakes vs. data streams

6 reasons why the network access and monitoring sector is sizzling

The next generation data center : Fully open sourced

3 steps to prevent system downtime during tax season

Amazon’s price increase is good for consumers – Like it or not

Peeling back the layers of the software- defined data center

3 things to consider when upgrading WiFi for retail

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