Talented data scientists don’t come cheap; if a company serious about monetizing data is fortunate enough to land one, it had better wring all it can from them. Data-collection and analytics tools that sweep data from here and yonder into a visible whole can help. Instead of having analysts toil away on low- and mid-level ...

Buzz about blockchain is crackling in the air, not just in Silicon Valley, but anywhere with a beating tech pulse around the world. However, the complexities of the blockchain distributed ledger — especially for developers — remains a stumbling block to mainstreaming the technology. One young company wants to bring blockchain-for-everyone to market with reduced-prep ...

Boston has a respectable tech startup scene, but everyone knows it isn’t Silicon Valley. However, some believe that by snatching up more and more action around the “internet of things” trend for connected devices and augmented reality, Boston could become the place to be in those specific niches. What might establish it as such is a ...

Hear that thud? That’s the public’s trust in the media hitting rock bottom. Fake news plastered on social sites; partisan commentators billing themselves as reporters; billionaires with who-knows-what agenda buying newspapers: Is anyone in media land telling it like it is? Perhaps readers and viewers themselves can be the checks and balances on bias in ...

Modestly peopled information technology teams are facing growing demands from their organizations for advanced performance. How do they deliver modern applications and all-around excellence with hands-on deck steadily disappearing? One way might be through hyperconverged infrastructure that takes up less space physically and requires less manual tinkering. “We basically have to do more with less ...

There’s a popular impression that on-premises hardware must necessarily snail behind public cloud technology. However, some organizations are leveraging the latest hyperconverged infrastructure (combining commodity hardware with a software layer) to run trend-setting software like Docker Inc. containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) and Kubernetes — an open-source container orchestration management platform — ...

In the evolving world of set-it-and-forget it information technology, there’s automation, and then there’s automation. Plenty of vendors claiming their technologies automate away labor are a tad deceptive; they may automate the beginning stage of a task, only to punt the ensuing grunt work right back into workers’ hands. We consulted some techies toiling in ...

The words White House Historical Association probably don’t bring bleeding-edge technology to mind. Mahogany shelves lined with dusty hardbound books seem more likely than entertaining apps and “gamefied” online experiences. But through partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc., the association is out to change that — and its inviting people to experience history in novel ways. ...

Managing a hybrid cloud environment with applications on-premises and in public cloud is a handful; throw in rapidly evolving development and operations tools and methods, and a pretty confusing maze emerges for information technology personnel to navigate. This is the muddle public-sector organizations and others must navigate as they move to modernize with cloud, DevOps, etc. A ...

Cloud infrastructure is making progress through the public sector, having won some extremely security-conscious customers, like the Central Intelligence Agency. Much smaller nonprofit organizations are also finding out what cloud infrastructure can do for them. A program that makes cloud “grants” is enabling cash-strapped nonprofits to get up and go. About 22,000 nonprofits now run ...