Strap in, CIOs: Analysts Predict Wild Ride for 2018-2020

December 7, 2017 by Scot Finnie 0 Comments

Digital transformation is the underlying theme of many of the 2018 and beyond IT predictions made recently by analyst firms Forrester, Gartner and IDC. Technologies such as cloud, AI, data analytics, big data, blockchain, IoT, conversational interfaces, DevOps and cybersecurity will also force CIOs to perform a juggling act. The rapid evolution of these technologies […]

Is AWS Cloud Per-Second Billing Boon or Bane for DevOps Engineers?

October 4, 2017 by contributor 1 Comments

Amazon’s introduction of its AWS services in 2006 with a per-hour billing model for compute resources was a game-changer for the IT world. Since then, AWS has taken over the cloud computing market as a leader, while broadening the range of cloud services offered every year. However, the per-hour billing business model was one of […]

DevOps and Data Portability

September 22, 2017 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored to original spec. But it has no gas tank. A bit of a stark comparison, but that’s where we’re at with application release […]

Study: CIOs Want a Chief Data Officer

September 14, 2017 by Scot Finnie 3 Comments

Quick, what does CDO stand for? Before you say chief digital officer, think again. A new study points to the chief data officer as the more important of the two titles, finding 82 percent of CIOs believe there is a compelling case to hire a CDO in most organizations. The survey, commissioned by Experian Data […]

4 Predictive Analytics Challenges Facing SRE Teams

August 23, 2017 by contributor 3 Comments

“Predictive analytics” refers to the many techniques used to analyze data to make predictions about the future, such as data mining, statistics, modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Being able to predict technical and business outcomes is one of the main promises of big data. Indeed, many businesses have invested heavily in infrastructure to anticipate […]

Gartner: Digital Business Driving Spending

July 20, 2017 by Scot Finnie 1 Comments

With half the year gone, Gartner just revised its 2017 worldwide IT spending projection up 1 percent to 2.4 percent. That may not sound like a lot, but last year’s IT spending growth was effectively flat at 0.3 percent. It isn’t just the uptick in the overall spending level that’s interesting, it’s how Gartner predicts […]

Is DevOps Making Life Better for Data Scientists?

June 2, 2017 by contributor 2 Comments

The path to success and happiness of the data science team working with big data project is not always clear from the beginning. It depends on the maturity of the underlying platform, their cross skills and DevOps processes around their day-to-day operations. The past few years have been like a dream come true for those […]

Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments

March 9, 2017 by Shalabh Goyal 0 Comments

We discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you scrap the traditional approach to back up and write scripts to handle the task, backup and recovery of next-generation applications and databases (Apache […]