We’re living in an open core universe. These days it can be difficult to differentiate technology capabilities available via open source compared with commercial licensed versions of various software projects …

Back at the beginning of this century (a long time ago in tech) some brilliant chaps escaped from Google with the recipe for taming enterprise big-data: Hadoop. If it worked …

In my most recent post, I made four recommendations about planning for an intelligent edge application. My primary takeaway was that building real-time applications requires a different mindset than building …

Last week, Microsoft announced their Azure Data Box Edge computing appliance. While it may seem like a pure edge hardware play, CEO Satya Nadella positioned the product as part of …

Learning a new technology takes time and effort, so it’s important to make sure you’ve identified a good fit before you invest precious brain cycles. To help you determine whether …

Podcasts are one of our favorite ways to stay up to date with the latest innovations and hear deep dives from technology innovators. If you want technical context, industry trends, …

As modern enterprises plan for Robotics and other IoT tools, they are forced to rethink their platforms to ensure that data flows smoothly from devices to edge to cloud. The …

Yesterday, Google Cloud’s SVP of Technical Infrastructure, Urs Hölzle announced that they’d “removed the remaining [MapReduce] internal codebase for good.” He went on to elaborate that GCP was ditching MapReduce …