With all the NoSQL database options available on the market today, including cloud-based Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) options as well as installable software, you might wonder whether…
Bimodal IT is a controversial topic in enterprise IT circles today. The fact that IT runs at two (or more) speeds isn’t the question. Rather,…
The Importance of Machine Learning As innovation in big data analysis techniques accelerates, the bar for operational analytics rises apace. The sheer quantity of different…
Management consultants and pundits love to bandy about the phrases business agility and business velocity as though they meant the same thing. In reality, however,…
Had Mark Twain lived today, we might hear him utter the oath lies, damn lies, and analytics. Statistics to be sure may still be used…
There are two kinds of enterprises in today’s world: the ones that know they’ve been hacked, and the ones that don’t know they’ve been hacked.…
Agile Operations for Enterprise DevOps Efforts If you believe Gartner, IT is now bimodal. Slow, traditional IT continues its slog, following policies and procedures from…
Rounding Out Platform with Synthetic Monitoring A decade ago, the Application Performance Management (APM) market was a dusty corner of enterprise IT, focusing on keeping…
The Architecture Buzzword du Jour Move aside, big data. Sorry, devops. Cloud computing? You’re yesterday’s news. Today, the buzziest buzzword du jour is microservices. Given…
Listen in on a conversation among techies today, and you’ll likely hear several recently minted buzzwords, casually dropped into conversation: Cloud. Big data. DevOps. Containers.…


