Implementing Functional Safety

APR 20, 2017 20:14 PM

Implementing Functional Safety

Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services

This article uses an automotive industry example to discuss best practices for efficiently and effectively implementing functional safety in software systems.

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NETWORKING - Streaming Exascale Data over 100Gbps Networks

Monday, Oct 8, 2012

ARTICLE: Data-intensive computing is one of the crosscutting themes in today's computer research. Many scientific activities depend on large-scale data analysis, scientific simulations, and verification of experimental results. Moreover, experimental facilities are distributed around the world, and scientific communities need to engage in large collaborative efforts.

SECURITY - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan from the week ending January 31, 2014

Tuesday, Feb 4, 2014

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending January 31, 2014.

SECURITY - AnalystPerspectives - week ending February 14, 2014.

Wednesday, Feb 19, 2014

ARTICLE: AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending February 14, 2014.

SECURITY - AnalystPerspectives week ending February 21, 2014.

Wednesday, Feb 26, 2014

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending February 21, 2014.

MOBILE - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan

Friday, Mar 14, 2014

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending February 08, 2013.

MOBILE - How Search Can Help in a Medical Crisis

Friday, May 16, 2014

ARTICLE: One day, a woman named Lisa is walking her dog, Lucky, when she meets an elderly neighbor. Suddenly, the neighbor falls unconscious and stops breathing. What would you do in this scenario? These days, many people’s initial reaction would be to reach for their mobile phones and seek help. But today’s search engines don’t offer pertinent assistance for such a situation. You can go to Wikipedia or the Mayo Clinic site, but those resources are designed for relaxed information seeking, not for urgent settings such as the one above.

CLOUD - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan

Tuesday, Jun 17, 2014

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending June 13, 2014.

MOBILE - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan

Wednesday, Jul 2, 2014

ARTICLE: Our News of the Week in Review begins with a variety of Data, Big Data & Digital Assets applications. Here is a sampling from this week’s articles:

NETWORKING - Network equipment suppliers will work to make the dream of network virtualization a reality in 2014

Thursday, Jul 24, 2014

ARTICLE: Transformation within the networking industry is occurring rapidly, as networks continue to evolve to fulfill their role as the delivery mechanism for a rapidly growing number of enterprise applications, particularly those being delivered via the cloud and mobile devices. As expected, most of the major network hardware suppliers, including Avaya, Cisco, Dell, HP and Huawei, had a strong presence at Interop Las Vegas 2014, and software vendors such as F5, VMware and Citrix have emerged as major players within the networking ecosystem. One notable exception was Juniper, whose presence was limited to leading a handful of workshops, as the company did not have a booth in the vendor exhibition hall — further evidence Juniper is de-emphasizing its enterprise business as it focuses on cutting costs in the short term and charting a course for long-term growth.

MOBILE - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan

Tuesday, Aug 5, 2014

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending August 01, 2014.

NETWORKING - Computing Conversations: Nii Quaynor on Bringing the Internet to Africa

Tuesday, Aug 26, 2014

PODCAST: Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Nii Quaynor about how the story of bringing the Internet to Africa is one of cooperation and collaboration for the common good.

NETWORKING - VMware is enabling IT and process transformation to drive high-profile customer engagements

Monday, Sep 8, 2014

ARTICLE: “No Limits” was the theme for VMware’s partner, developer and customer conference VMworld 2014, encapsulating the transformational opportunities cloud, mobile and big data disruptors are creating for businesses.

NETWORKING - Software-defined storage redefines modern data management

Wednesday, Sep 10, 2014

ARTICLE: Data center transformation is no longer an option for only the brave or well-funded. Software-defined storage (SDS) is transforming data management into a simpler, less costly and more approachable option for customers compared to traditional models. Because the SDS approach is progressing more rapidly and at a more customer-accessible level than other technologies, such as networking, it will help define the overall software-defined data center movement that is in motion.

NETWORKING - Disruptive technologies will prove instrumental to effectively dealing with emerging government challe

Friday, Sep 12, 2014

ARTICLE: The conference topics revolved around how to take advantage of cross-organizational collaboration and disruptive technologies such as predictive analytics to improve government services delivery through more efficient and innovative IT technology enablement.

MOBILE - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan

Friday, Sep 19, 2014

ARTICLE: As Apple unveils its latest iPhone and Apple Watch, analysts fill the Mobile & Broadband section with thoughts and opinions. Here are just a few:

CLOUD - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan

Tuesday, Oct 14, 2014

ARTICLE: AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending October 10, 2014.

MOBILE - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan

Monday, Nov 24, 2014

ARTICLE: News of the Week - Analysts Insights Updates in the Mobile & Broadband market this week have analysts talking.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - TPCPs Gain New Appreciation as IT Security Solution

Thursday, Jan 15, 2015

ARTICLE: Contemporary information technology isn't adequate to secure the valuable information these systems are entrusted to manage, as recent security breaches at US corporations and government agencies demonstrate. There are two reasons for this. First, public and private networks, based on Ethernet and the TCP/IP protocol, weren?t designed to protect information, but to make it easy to share information. Second, the architecture of the modern IT infrastructure was established long before cybercrime became the global nemesis that it is today, and therefore the issues of security and trust weren?t well understood or taken into account.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - What's Different About Windows 10: Analysts Weigh In

Tuesday, Jan 27, 2015

ARTICLE: Analysts discuss the pros and cons of Microsoft's new Windows 10 OS.

SECURITY - Computing and the Law: BYOD? OMG!

Monday, Feb 9, 2015

VIDEO: Author Brian M. Gaff provides an audio recording of his Computing and the Law column, in which he discusses how bring your own device (BYOD) allows employees to bring personally owned technology to their workplaces and use it in connection with their jobs.

NETWORKING - Rise of the Alternative Network Provider

Monday, Feb 16, 2015

ARTICLE: Incumbent telecom operators in the U.S. face a new category of competitors that play by a different set of rules. These alternative network providers aim to disrupt the traditional telecom business model by lowering access costs and improving the user experience. Their motivations differ from incumbent telcos, which focus on monetizing their connectivity solutions. Rather, these alternative network providers view access as a sunk cost necessary to drive their other initiatives, such as digital advertising and e-commerce. The stakes are high because these market dynamics will shift the balance of power, money, and landscape makeup in coming years. Only the strongest and most nimble incumbent operators will survive the coming shakeout.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Guest Editors' Introduction: The Practice and Future of Release Engineering

Friday, Feb 20, 2015

PODCAST: IEEE Software Multimedia Editor Davide Falessi speaks with Guest Editors Bram Adams and Foutse Khomh about release engineering and its value to the software industry. (From IEEE Software's March/April 2015 issue).

NETWORKING - What's Your Place in the Smart Revolution?

Monday, Feb 23, 2015

VIDEO: Whether you're building smart cars, dealing with the smart grid, want to control a smart home, or are manufacturing the latest smart clothing, you deal with the same confronting challenges as everyone in the “smart technologies” movement. Attend Rock Stars of SmartTech on May 12 in Raleigh to get actionable answers and insights. Register at http://www.computer.org/smarttech.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Mining Domain Knowledge

Monday, Apr 13, 2015

PODCAST: Author Jane Cleland-Huang provides an audio recording of the Requirements column, in which she discusses how basic data-mining skills can be useful for processing domain documents early during requirements engineering. From IEEE Software's May/June 2015 issue.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Anarchy and Order

Wednesday, Apr 15, 2015

PODCAST: Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how computing amplifies the actions of governments, but can also temper its behavior by enabling mechanisms for private communication as well as for open and transparent communication by the people of a nation.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Guest Editors' Introduction: Trends in Systems and Software Variability

Thursday, Apr 16, 2015

PODCAST: Davide Falessi speaks with IEEE Software Guest Editors Rafael Capilla and Rich Hilliard about the state of the art and practice in system and software variability. From IEEE Software's May/June 2015 issue.

NETWORKING - Smart Networked Systems and Societies: A Research Agenda

Friday, Apr 17, 2015

VIDEO: Ram D. Sriram, chief of the Software and Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory, at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, discusses a research agenda for fulfilling the promise of the Internet of Things.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Latest Analyst News About SAP

Sunday, May 17, 2015

ARTICLE: Analysts are covering the latest news from SAP. Here are just some of the articles you will find in the Enterprise Applications section.

BIG DATA - Analyst Commentary

Friday, May 1, 2015

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending April 24, 2015.

BIG DATA - Analyst Perspectives

Friday, May 15, 2015

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending May 08, 2015.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Analyst Perspectives

Friday, Jun 12, 2015

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending June 05, 2015.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - "All or Nothing" Self-Driving Car Is a Blessing and a Curse

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2015

ARTICLE: Beginning this summer, Google is going to roll out its self-driving car prototypes onto real American roads. It’s a big step forward for autonomous, self-driving cars, though this technology has been experimented with and tested for the past several years. In this test, a handful of prototypes will travel throughout Mountain View, California, each with a human safety driver aboard, to rigorously test their feasibility as real-world vehicles.

BIG DATA - Big Data and the Bright and Messy Future

Wednesday, Jul 15, 2015

ARTICLE: It began with a simple problem: how do I figure out who is accessing my web site and what they are viewing? I should take a step back, actually, because it began even before that with the grand challenge of trying to crawl and index an exponentially growing number of websites in the early 21st Century. But that challenge was unique to Google and a few other players, while analyzing web site access was more ubiquitous among the burgeoning social media sites that were coming of age around the same time.

BIG DATA - Big Data Analytics: Outsource or In-House?

Friday, Jul 17, 2015

ARTICLE: According to IDC, the 1.8 zettabytes – that’s 1.8 trillion gigabytes – of information created last year will grow by a factor of nine over the next five years. While the storage of massive amounts of data on big computers is not a new idea, what has changed is the need and expectation of mining that data for decision support. That’s what we call big data analytics and all experts agree that the ability to analyze big data will be the difference between success and failure in almost every type of business in the coming years.

BIG DATA - Seizing the Data at HP Big Data Conference 2015

Thursday, Aug 20, 2015

ARTICLE: Ken Rudin, Director of Analytics at Facebook, closed things out in the Day 2 keynote. He debunked four prominent and popular myths about Big Data: Big Data=Hadoop Big Data provides better answers Data Science is a science Actionable insights are the goal Mr. Rudin spoke about the great challenge of hiring the right people to create a successful analytical culture. Finding individuals who are academically talented and business-savvy is no easy task.

Keep on Truckin’ – Mobile Apps Moving on Down the Road

Friday, Oct 30, 2015

ARTICLE: Over the past couple of years, according to Fleet Owner, truckers have tapped in to an array of mobile business applications that are helping to strengthen a fleet’s competitive advantage and assist with regulatory compliance.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - 10 Simple CSS Design Tricks

Wednesday, Nov 18, 2015

ARTICLE: Everyone loves shortcuts. Whether you’re a new CSS developer or a seasoned pro, it never hurts to learn some new, easier ways to do things. It’s the trademark of our times: we want the best result possible in the least amount of time.

Will Robo-Advisors Invade the Financial World?

Monday, Nov 30, 2015

ARTICLE: While it’s not likely that R2-D2 is going to sit down with you at home and help construct your portfolio, reinvest your dividends and even harvest your tax losses, the use of robo-advisers is nonetheless growing in popularity.

BIG DATA - Analyst Commentary

Wednesday, Dec 2, 2015

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending November 27, 2015.

BIG DATA - Analyst Commentary

Tuesday, Dec 8, 2015

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending December 04, 2015.

Advances in Affective Computing Expected to be Game Changers in Many Verticals

Thursday, Dec 24, 2015

ARTICLE: Affective computing is nothing new – it has been around for awhile – over a decade, in fact. As defined by MIT’s Media Lab, affective computing is computing “that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotion or other affective phenomena.”

NETWORKING - Analyst Commentary

Wednesday, Jan 6, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending December 25, 2015 - January 01, 2016.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Why an Enterprise Search Platform Should Be Your Company’s Next Investment

Friday, Jan 15, 2016

ARTICLE: No matter what industry you’re in, you have one thing in common with almost every other business on this planet: you’ve been creating copious amounts of data at an exponential rate for the last 10 years, if not longer.

CLOUD - Analyst Commentary

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending January 22, 2016.

Telematics On Cusp of Widespread Adoption

Tuesday, Feb 2, 2016

ARTICLE: Telematics is nothing new – the technology’s been around for decades – but the ubiquitous smartphone is now expected to drive telematics penetration in private hire vehicles and taxis to 21% globally by 2019

BIG DATA - Analyst Commentary

Wednesday, Feb 3, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending January 29, 2016.

NETWORKING - Analyst Commentary

Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending February 05, 2016.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - If Google Has "Solved" Go, Then What's Next for Artificial Intelligence?

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2016

ARTICLE: Google, one of the leading authorities in the modern world of artificial intelligence development, has created an algorithm capable of defeating a human expert in the game of Go. If you’re not familiar with Go, or the logistical hurdles of overcoming a human player with a machine, this may not seem very impressive to you. Suffice it to say, this is a massive breakthrough, and it’s opening up new doors for the development of artificial intelligence.

BIG DATA - Analyst Commentary

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending March 11,2016.

BIG DATA - A Warning for Wearables: Think Before You Emote

Friday, Mar 18, 2016

ARTICLE: An examination of how wearable devices could become the modern equivalent of blogs broadcasting proprietary workplace information directly to the Internet of Things -- and beyond.

NETWORKING - Analyst Commentary

Monday, Mar 21, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending March 18, 2016.

CLOUD - Cloud Enabled: The Shift in Connectivity

Wednesday, Mar 23, 2016

ARTICLE: BUSINESS SOLUTIONS The last decade has seen a surge in new technologies and new uses for those technologies, so much so that we’re already feeling the shift in our society.

Biometrics Making Inroads with Financial Institutions

Wednesday, Mar 30, 2016

ARTICLE: While numerous financial institutions worldwide have embraced biometric technology, widespread acceptance and adoption by customers is still in its early stages.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Analyst Commentary

Thursday, Apr 7, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending April 01, 2016.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - The Hidden Costs of Full-Time Software Developers

Monday, Apr 11, 2016

ARTICLE: Software development is one of the hottest areas for outsourcing, with businesses realizing that they can easily assign projects to workers in remote areas and save money.

Technology’s Making Smart Clothing Even Smarter

Monday, Apr 25, 2016

ARTICLE: A generation from now (or probably much less), your blue jeans might tell you that they really need to be washed. Or your blue blazer might complain that that hideous Christmas gift tie you got from Aunt Mabel just doesn’t cut it with your dress shirt and slacks.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Securing Enterprise Networks in the Age of BYOD and the IoT

Thursday, Apr 21, 2016

ARTICLE: As if managing the BYOD phenomenon wasn’t hard enough, Microsoft made it harder with its free Windows 10 upgrade. That wasn’t Microsoft’s intention, of course, and the company can’t be blamed for the increasing challenge of managing employee devices with disparate software versions. After all, it’s pretty great to get a new operating system for free.

BIG DATA - Analyst Commentary

Tuesday, Apr 26, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending April 22, 2016.

Got Game? Analytics May Help Those Weekend Duffers

Wednesday, Jun 1, 2016

ARTICLE: If you constantly shank your drives into the rough, have a propensity for landing your ball in every other sand trap and have a knack for choking on those three-foot putts, well, golf analytics may offer some incremental improvements to your game, but playing on the PGA Tour will still be a bedtime fantasy. The skinny, however, is that the analytics gleaned via wearable technology and cloud computing are bringing about a sea change in golf.

BIG DATA - holoportation

Friday, Jun 17, 2016

ARTICLE: holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. When combined with mixed reality displays such as HoloLens, this technology allows users to see, hear, and interact with remote participants in 3D as if they are actually present in the same physical space. Communicating and interacting with remote users becomes as natural as face-to-face communication.

BIG DATA - Creating a new generation of computing device

Monday, Jun 20, 2016

ARTICLE: Quantum computing is a field of research that applies the principles of quantum physics and new directions in materials science to building a new type of computers that use quantum effects in computation. Beyond creating quantum computers, the field also includes studies of algorithms that such computers can execute.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - DevOps Practice

Monday, Jun 27, 2016

ARTICLE: DevOps is an organizational shift where instead of distributed silo-like functions cross-functional teams work on continuous operational feature deliveries. Teams thus deliver value in a faster and continuous way, reducing problems generated by miscommunication between team members and enhancing a faster resolution of problems. It obviously means a culture shift towards collaboration between development, quality assurance and operations. At Vector we have supported a number of companies on improving efficiency with DevOps and continuous delivery. Here a brief case study from a domain with high safety and security requirements.

Driverless Cars Are Coming – a Paradigm Shift

Thursday, Jun 30, 2016

BLOG POST: An MIT study predicted last year that shared, self-driving cars may take so many vehicles off the road – perhaps 80% of them – that a new class of ‘exurbs’ in the U.S. may spring up within a decade. “With fewer cars, much of this space could be freed for other uses. Such reduction in car numbers would also dramatically lower the cost (and related energy consumption) of building and maintaining roads,” said MIT’s Matthew Claudel and Carlo Ratti. One engineering study, they noted, found that automation could quadruple capacity on any given highway – and fewer cars translate to less noise and a small environmental impact. These self-driving vehicles will eventually blur the lines between public/private transportation modes.

CLOUD - Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing

Tuesday, Jul 12, 2016

ARTICLE: Cloud computing is changing the way people and enterprises use computers and their work practices, as well as how companies and governments deploy their computer applications. It will drastically improve access to information for all as well as cut IT costs. It redefines not only the information and communication technology (ICT) industry but also enterprise IT in all industry and business sectors. It is also driving innovations by small enterprises and facilitating deployment of new applications that would otherwise be infeasible. This is an edited excerpt from Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing, ©Wiley 2016.

MOBILE - AnalystPerspectives

Thursday, Jul 14, 2016

ARTICLE: This issue of covers analyst commentary from the week ending July 08, 2016. Mobile security is just one of the subjects covered in this week’s newsletter. Here is a sample of the articles you will find in the Mobile & Broadband section: Rural Communities Need Investments in Small Cell Backhaul to Narrow the Digital Divide as World Ramps Up to 5G | ABI Research - Wed, 06 Jul 2016 BlackBerry Misinformation and the Smartphone Security Crisis | Enderle Group - Fri, 08 Jul 2016 |Rob Enderle Securing Trust in Digital Business | Gartner - Tue, 05 Jul 2016 Passwords Suck – Bring on Biometrics! | Celent - Wed, 06 Jul 2016 |Bob Meara

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - 3 Ways to Outsource Software Development and Actually Get Things Done

Monday, Jul 25, 2016

ARTICLE: Developing digital assets is rapidly becoming one of the most expensive undertakings for businesses in 2016. Skilled developers command high salaries, which can add up to millions of dollars over the life of your startup. After all, it often takes a team of project managers and developers to create and maintain unique, high quality software.

CLOUD - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary

Tuesday, Jul 26, 2016

ARTICLE: Here are a few Cloud conversations from this week, covering Amazon Web Services and IBM: AWS Dominance Gives Rise to Differentiation in Public Cloud Provider Strategies | Saugatuck Technology - Wed, 20 Jul 2016 |Bruce Guptill

Smart Appliances Are on the Rise

Friday, Jul 29, 2016

BLOG POST: Washers of the world, unite! While that’s taking a bit of poetic license from the famous rallying cry in the 1848 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, advances in smart appliances may someday have washers from Halifax to Harare talking to each other.

CLOUD - Key Benefits of Cloud-based, Paperless Technology

Tuesday, Aug 9, 2016

ARTICLE: While a completely paperless approach might not be possible yet, the paperless technologies are already having significant impacts on the traditional businesses. A paperless environment is beneficial for both the company and the environment. Here are the most prominent ways about how cloud-based paperless technology is changing traditional businesses.

Digital Trading Cards Growing in Popularity – Bubble Gum Not Included

Thursday, Aug 25, 2016

BLOG POST: I never threw out my extensive baseball card collection. While I don’t have a T206 Honus Wagner American Tobacco Company card (sold for $2.8 million in August 2007) or a Topps 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie year card (sold by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions in December 2015 to an anonymous collector for $525,800), the collection has increased in value over the years as it sits in multiple shoe boxes silently stuffed away in a corner of a closet. Not surprisingly, in today’s digital age, sports card collecting has also gone digital over the past few years and those of us that still have paper card collections are becoming an endangered species. You no longer get a stick of Bazooka bubble gum to chew for hours on end, but the flip side is that a memorable sports moment can immediately be available online and downloaded.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Cyclomatic Complexity – 40 Years Later

Tuesday, Aug 30, 2016

ARTICLE: The criticality and risk of software is defined by its complexity. Forty years ago, McCabe introduced his famous cyclomatic complexity (CC) metric. Today, it is still one of the most popular and meaningful measurements for analyzing code. Read this blog about the measurement and its value for improving code quality and maintainability...

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - DevOps Practice

Sunday, Aug 28, 2016

ARTICLE: DevOps breaks organizational silos and thus accelerates delivery. DevOps principles apply not only for cloud and IT services but for most industries, including critical systems. Read the blog and learn from a recent case study of using DevOps methodologies in critical domains...

BIG DATA - Display Solutions for the Mid-Volume OEM...Your Way - Customization Options for Fitting Your Production Needs

Tuesday, Sep 6, 2016

ARTICLE: One of the most common misconceptions about display customization among engineers and procurement team members is custom displays cost more. But the opposite is most often true.

MOBILE - 5 Trends Shaping the Trajectory of Ecommerce

Thursday, Sep 15, 2016

ARTICLE: As ecommerce continues to become an even larger part of the global marketplace, we’re beginning to see some new developments take shape. These trends are making ecommerce more cost-effective, efficient, and profitable for both businesses and their consumers.

MOBILE - How Google Fiber Inspired The Creation Of One Of The World’s Top Tech Conferences

Tuesday, Sep 20, 2016

ARTICLE: Kansas City: home to Jazz, the Royals (2015 World Series Champions) and BBQ. For the past few years, it's also been the envy of the tech world with first access to Google Fiber..... eliminating all perception as just "flyover country". Having initial dibs on this gigabit speed internet not only helped elevate KC as a top tech hub, it brought jobs, startups and created a buzz that can't be quantified. This journey all started with a challenge from Google: "What would you do with internet 100x faster?"

MOBILE - Apple's Missing Headphone Jack and Why Innovation Requires Discomfort

Thursday, Sep 22, 2016

ARTICLE: Apple has unveiled its latest model of iPhone, the iPhone 7, and it carries with it a host of nifty new features you’d come to expect from the tech giant’s landmark product. However, one new feature seems to stand out more than the others when it comes to public attention and scrutiny; the traditional 3.5 mm headphone jack, long a staple for phones and similar audio devices, has been removed.

Warehouse Robots Boosting Productivity – and They Don’t Call in Sick

Thursday, Sep 29, 2016

BLOG POST: hey never take a vacation day. In fact, they work 24/7 in the warehouse with nary a complaint. They don’t kvetch about the rising cost of healthcare insurance. And other than initially programming them, they don’t need any extensive training. Warehouse robots are growing in popularity and are already causing an upheaval in the industry. Steve Vairma, who heads up the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents 122,000 grocery-warehouse workers, said “employers are looking to move more and more into automation and we’re going to be faced with those challenges in contract negotiations in coming years.”

Millennials Discovering, Buying New Works of Art Online

Monday, Oct 3, 2016

BLOG POST: It should come as no surprise - Millennials grab most of their info online – and via smartphones. And that extends to how they discover works of art. To further corroborate this, Invaluable, an online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectibles, conducted a survey earlier this year entitled ‘American Attitudes Toward Art.’ Some interesting survey findings:

CLOUD - Website Costs You Can Do Without

Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016

ARTICLE: It’s no secret that the price for design and development of websites are through the roof. If you fire a contractor or employee with a marketing or other related degree, you’re also paying a premium (albeit likely a worthwhile one if you must hire!). Website costs can range from putting a minor ding in the budget to becoming your CPA’s biggest nightmare. Did you know that there are many little details that not only can you do without, but your customers probably won’t even notice? A lot of businesses are paying for services that are completely unnecessary.

CLOUD - AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan

Thursday, Nov 10, 2016

ARTICLE: Analysts have been busy discussing what the IT future holds in the upcoming year. Read the headlines in the Forecasts & Predictions 2017 section: Forrester Predictions: Ten Key Developments In Cloud Computing Shape The Industry In 2017 |Forrester - Thu, 03 Nov 2016 |Charlie Dai

MOBILE - Designing Displays to Take the Drop

Tuesday, Nov 15, 2016

ARTICLE: Any portable or hand-held device will be dropped. Humans do that. Because LCD displays are made of thin glass and glass can break, we face some design challenges. While making your display unbreakable isn't possible, optimizing drop-test performance with a system level approach will help products pass drop-testing and make your end product far more durable.

CLOUD - A Look at the 5 Biggest Challenges Facing the Web Development Industry

Thursday, Dec 1, 2016

ARTICLE: When you look at the country’s fastest growing industries, web development is always ranked near the top. But just because it’s a fast-growing industry with lots of demand doesn’t mean there aren’t issues facing developers on a daily basis. Here are Five Challenges Developers are Working Through

CLOUD - Analyst Perspectives Weekly Scan

Thursday, Dec 1, 2016

ARTICLE: The holiday shopping season remains a hot topic amongst analysts. Black Friday began on Thanksgiving and there were many deals to be had. Here are a few highlights from our Retail section: Black Thursday Turns Black Friday Grey |The NPD Group - Fri, 25 Nov 2016 |Marshal Cohen

MOBILE - How to Protect Your Website from Hackers

Friday, Dec 9, 2016

ARTICLE: Hackers are rampant on the internet and it's not unusual for people to get have their websites destroyed because of an attack. While these cyber attacks are actually quite common, there are many ways to be able to protect oneself from hackers that roam around the internet. In order to protect your information from these hackers, you can make use of these tips to beef up your security of your website or your personal accounts.

CLOUD - Analyst Perspectives Weekly Scan

Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016

ARTICLE: Many analysts continue to discuss the busy holiday shopping season. Here are a few of those highlights found in the Retail section: Consumers are Paying the Price for Toys this Holiday | The NPD Group - Thu, 08 Dec 2016 |Juli Lennett

SECURITY - All email should be encrypted

Wednesday, Dec 21, 2016

ARTICLE: Dark Web, Deep Web, Deepnet, Invisible Web, Hidden Web, Dark Internet. What’s the average computer user to know? You can start by understanding there are dark places and dark minds out there, criminals who would hack into your internet devices and steal or corrupt your information. It’s why all email should be encrypted.

Useful Gadgets, Wacky Gizmos; Par for CES

Monday, Jan 16, 2017

BLOG POST: This year at CES marked a personal milestone – the good folks at CES affixed a ‘10+ Years’ ribbon to the bottom of my badge (it’s actually 12 but who’s counting). To paraphrase from those ubiquitous Allstate commercials, after a dozen consecutive Las Vegas sojourns, “I know a thing or two because I’ve seen a thing or two.” And there was a lot to see. The buzzwords this year were augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Wearables and phones? There, but somewhat passé. On to the next trend(s), product(s).

Surprising Marketing Lessons from the Pet Industry

Friday, Feb 3, 2017

BLOG POST: Marketers can learn a thing or two from our furry (and scaly for those who may own reptiles, snakes, other creepy-crawlers) friends. While the fast-growing $61 billion a year pet product industry is wooing new consumers with disruptive marketing campaigns, e-Commerce and digital marketing to pet owners is still the new frontier. According to Annalect, a New York City-based data analytics company, only 8.2 percent of the entire market regularly shops for pet products online.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - A License to Build (Software)

Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017

ARTICLE: Author David Alan Grier reads his new Global Code column, in which he discusses how professional competencies and ethics can be ensured locally while remaining on par with global standards.

SECURITY - 4 Technologies That Could Pave the Future of Cybersecurity

Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017

ARTICLE: Cybersecurity has come a long way over the decades, but hackers and cybersecurity experts are constantly trying to one-up each other in terms of technological sophistication and preparedness. Every time we take a major step forward in terms of reliable security, cybercriminals are there to match us.

MOBILE - How Much an Android Developer Costs These Days?

Monday, Mar 6, 2017

ARTICLE: Over $69 billion was generated in global mobile app revenue in the year 2015 alone. Some estimates purport that by the year 2020 that number will nearly triple. It would be an understatement to suggest that the (already massive) mobile app market is growing exponentially. Advancements in both hardware and software have greatly decreased the cost of powerful smartphones, which has, in turn, caused them to proliferate rather rapidly. As more people use smartphones on an everyday basis, the demand for apps rises.

CLOUD - A Look at How New Tech is Giving Patients More Control Over Their Health

Monday, Mar 6, 2017

ARTICLE: Technological innovation and the healthcare industry are forever intertwined. There’s always some new procedure, device, or software program coming down the line that’s supposed to change or improve a certain area of the industry. And while each technology has its own specific influence, the vast majority are working together to provide patients with more control over their experiences.

SECURITY - 8 Common Phishing Attacks And How To Protect Against Them

Tuesday, Mar 7, 2017

ARTICLE: What Phishers Do You need to accept that these scammers might just be smarter than you, at least with respect to the ability to conspire and corrupt.

BIG DATA - A Look at the State of Connected Devices in 2017

Monday, Apr 3, 2017

ARTICLE: The connected devices trend is one that seems to be growing at a faster rate each year. This calendar year will be no different, as more and more companies continue to get involved. But where exactly do things stand and what can be expected in 2017 and beyond?

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - 4 Useful Technologies Made Possible by Computers

Tuesday, Apr 11, 2017

ARTICLE: People love to joke about disk drives that were once the size of washing machines. Except it’s not really a joke—it’s true. With a fresh coat of white paint, the RP04 disk drive could easily infiltrate any laundry room and blend right in. With a 92MB capacity, you could almost store the photos of your dinner you posted to Instagram last night. Today, this technology once considered cutting-edge has become obsolete. Large, clunky, slow machines have been replaced with lightning fast, smart technology that does more than just sit in a corner and collect dust. Here are four computer-based, cutting edge technologies you can’t live without:

AI Helping Marketers Better Engage Customers

Tuesday, Apr 25, 2017

BLOG POST: Artificial intelligence (AI), to use a hackneyed term, is already causing a paradigm shift for marketers. AI, in brief, is helping brands to rapidly collaborate with and learn from online followers. And while there probably exists many a Luddite that deems AI a pervasive jobs threat, the flip side is that it may be a golden opportunity to let the machines do mundane stuff like customer support, enabling humans to become more creative.

NETWORKING - 5 Trends to Watch For in Online File Sharing

Tuesday, Apr 25, 2017

ARTICLE: nline file storage and sharing are becoming more important than ever, both in personal and professional applications. We’re creating more data on a daily basis—according to VoucherCloud, we produce about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, which would fill 10 million Blu-ray discs—and we’re reliant on accessing and exchanging that data for our daily lives.

SECURITY - How Often Are Americans Really Hacked?

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

ARTICLE: Most people in the United States rely on technology to do their work, exchange messages, and even handle their financial transactions. The fear of being hacked, or having their personal information vulnerable and/or stolen, is prominent and played up by both technology companies and the media.

Ahoy! Crewless Ships are Just Over the Horizon

Friday, Aug 11, 2017

BLOG POST: Arghhh! To use some parlance from any of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies, in the next few years, that’s how some naysayers may react once they see crewless ships on the high seas.

SECURITY - Critical Corporate Cyber Security Risks

Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017

BLOG POST: An organization’s critical assets may be exposed due to malicious wifi that can lead to a security breach, or perhaps fall prey to a malware attack. Whatever the size of the company, an enterprise may lose precious data and incur huge expenses to get back on track.

INSIGHTS - 5 Reasons the Future of Big Data Requires Human-Machine Cooperation

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017

BLOG POST: Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data is becoming essential for more businesses and more individuals than ever before. Now that we have the automated tools to process this data, we can make better decisions—and more cost-efficiently as well. As more companies employ these tactics, competition rises, and it becomes even more imperative to take advantage of this efficiency.

SECURITY - 5 Possible Solutions for Workplace Security Threats in the Age of IoT

Thursday, Sep 28, 2017

BLOG POST: IoT isn’t inherently more dangerous than any other kind of technology. It doesn’t suffer from inherently inferior security standards or firewalls, but there are a few vulnerabilities that, by the nature of IoT, make devices in its network a potential target.

SECURITY - How to Respond to a Data Breach

Wednesday, Oct 4, 2017

BLOG POST: Data breaches don’t have to be massive or heavily publicized to be destructive; in fact, much smaller data breaches can be even more harmful, since it’s harder to spread the information your consumers need to take protective measures.

NETWORKING - The 6 Most Common Network Problems (and How to Fix Them)

Tuesday, Oct 17, 2017

BLOG POST: Managing a network is difficult—even for experienced IT professionals. Since they rely on so many different variables, all working functionally in unison, it’s easy for one small error to result in a system-wide issue.

SECURITY - Careers in Computer and Internet Security

Friday, Nov 3, 2017

BLOG POST: In the October 2017 issue of ComputingEdge, we asked Kate Netkachova and Robin Bloomfield about career opportunities in computer and Internet security.

SECURITY - Are Home Security Apps and Tech as Safe As They Promise?

Tuesday, Nov 14, 2017

BLOG POST: We’re entering the generation of the internet-of-things (IoT), where all our devices and appliances are connected to the cloud, and we can remotely access and control just about anything with our smartphones. But are these “secure” advancements really as secure as they promise?

SECURITY - The Solution to Hacks and Breaches: Stronger Links in the Chain

Tuesday, Nov 14, 2017

BLOG POST: So how is it that major national corporations, with decades of experience and billions of dollars of buying power, can let massive security breaches happen? And more importantly, what can we do, both inside and outside of these companies, to prevent them in the future?

Technology Helping Firefighters Tackle Wildfires

Tuesday, Jan 2, 2018

BLOG POST: How is technology giving firefighters an extra edge? With the Lilac Fire, helicopters carried iPads that displayed critical information; the firefighters also had custom cell phone apps that gave them up-to-the-second status reports.

SECURITY - How Cybersecurity Regulations for Medical Devices Is About to Change

Sunday, Jan 14, 2018

BLOG POST: With the increasing sophistication and availability of medical devices, cybersecurity is becoming an especially important concern for the healthcare industry. But why is it that medical devices are so vulnerable, and should we be doing more to regulate their development and ongoing management?

SECURITY - Making the Case for Better Website Security This Year

Wednesday, Jan 31, 2018

BLOG POST: You don’t need a degree in cyber security to see just how serious cyber attacks are for small businesses and ecommerce websites. The volume of attacks continues to rise, and businesses need to take every precaution to stay safe.

SECURITY - The 3 Best Cybersecurity Solutions for Enterprises

Thursday, Feb 22, 2018

BLOG POST: Cybersecurity is a threat for everyone but is especially dangerous for businesses as the penetration of a business’s database could threaten an innumerable amount people’s data. It is very imperative that a business conduct itself in the most secure way possible to avoid a breach of their internal systems.

MOBILE - Safety Tech: 3 Tools Reducing Medication Errors

Tuesday, Feb 27, 2018

BLOG POST: Medication errors are unfortunately common, accounting for 700,000 emergency department visits each year for outpatients, while 5% of hospitalized patients experience an adverse drug event (ADE).

MOBILE - Reducing Eyestrain for Billions of Mobile Device Users

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018

BLOG POST: The number of active mobile devices worldwide currently exceeds 7 billion. That’s a lot of eyes on display screens. And many say, a reason for concern.

NETWORKING - Five Common Complaints about Meetings that Smart Conference Rooms Can Put to Rest

Friday, Mar 30, 2018

BLOG POST: It’s no secret that many managers and employees dread meetings. Instead of focal points for information and collaboration, meetings often waste time and reduce productivity.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Increasingly Complex Infotainment Systems Place Heavy Demands on Drivers and Driver Safety

Monday, Apr 23, 2018

ARTICLE: Infotainment systems are now standard in nearly all new vehicles. In fact, infotainment displays increasingly control everything from radio stations and volume to thermostat, navigation, cellphone calls. Drivers expect that these new display systems are there to make driving easier and safer. Regrettably, just the opposite can be true.

CLOUD - Is Cloud Security a Safe Bet for Your Data

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

BLOG POST: A recent data breaches at Target, Home Depot and in the Apple iCloud have gained a lot of hype with media constantly asking experts regarding cloud security. Actually, the attacks were the results of human mistakes, and the cloud was not responsible for these attacks.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Why IoT Virtualization is Critical to the IoT Market

Thursday, May 10, 2018

ARTICLE: The Internet of Things (IoT) has seen explosive growth in everything from healthcare and banking to retail, manufacturing, consumer goods, and more. Businesses worldwide are eagerly exploring possible applications of IoT. The number of things connected via the Internet is expected to exceed 50 billion by 2020.

SECURITY - Cybersecurity: Educating Employees

Monday, May 21, 2018

BLOG POST: In this age, we will see the number of attacks increase dramatically and the proficiency of the attacks increase as well. However, even with this surge, we will still see the expansion of the internet and the access to devices expand dramatically. This means that, more than ever, we must be prepared to defend ourselves against digital attacks. These can come in the form of malware, brute force attacks and everything in between that try to steal our data and create adware problems.

SECURITY - Why Cybersecurity Is More Important Than Ever

Monday, May 21, 2018

BLOG POST: Cyber security is important -- now more than ever. It is more apparent than ever that technology is gradually taking over every facet of our lives. Whether we are at home or travelling technology has some sort of involvement in our daily routine.

INSIGHTS - Is There a Way Around the Speed vs. Scalability Problem in Big Data?

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

BLOG POST: Big data empowers innovation in all forms. As long as you have sufficient data, the right tools to crunch those data, and the right questions to ask, you can feasibly use big data to solve any problem.

INSIGHTS - Is it Time to Rename the GPU?

Friday, Jul 13, 2018

BLOG POST: The GPU is reducing the time it takes researchers and engineers to analyze, design, and diagnose problems and challenges that in the past would have taken days to weeks, in some cases like protein-folding, maybe months. Not only are answers to complex and complicated problems being obtained sooner, they are being expanded in accuracy.

INSIGHTS - Why Computer Vision Syndrome Is an Epidemic (and How to Beat It)

Tuesday, Jul 17, 2018

BLOG POST: If you work in IT or any other role that requires constant attention to a computer, you might be falling victim to computer vision syndrome without realizing it.

INSIGHTS - Can Tech Overcome Our Urge to Spend?

Tuesday, Jul 17, 2018

BLOG POST: As human beings, we tend to have trouble controlling our impulses. Our brains and bodies developed over the course of millions of years, in response to an environment that was trying to kill us. Now that we live in an era of relative comfort and abundance, the urges that kept us alive are now leading us to make unhealthy decisions.

INSIGHTS - The Future Of VR And AR

Tuesday, Jul 17, 2018

BLOG POST: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are possibly two of the biggest trends in the entire tech world. We saw the rise of VR in gaming applications and mapping software, but what is the future of this technology? How will Virtual Reality impact on our day to day life? Is it going to be a scary matter or is the technology just moving a bit too fast?

INSIGHTS - The Guide to 2018 App Development: Best Practices and Tips

Friday, Aug 3, 2018

BLOG POST: How can you make sure your latest app is that next big thing consumers will look forward to downloading and actually using? There are some standard practices that are changing the industry.

SECURITY - How You Can Prepare for Cyber Breaches

Monday, Aug 13, 2018

BLOG POST: In recent years, the cumulative amount of high profile breaches has made the front page of the newspaper a terrifying read. Almost everyone has heard of the Equifax and Target breaches that leaked millions of people’s data for anyone and everyone to grab for free.

SECURITY - Why Cybersecurity Will Change the Internet of Things

Monday, Aug 27, 2018

BLOG POST: Anything and everything can fit a processing unit inside of it and everyone and everything is connected to the internet. One key drawback of having all of these systems constantly connected to the internet is the threat of cyber attacks.

INSIGHTS - Why Should You Consider Incorporating Automation In Your Business

Monday, Aug 27, 2018

BLOG POST: Automation is a wonderful way to supplement the efforts of your organization, boost productivity, and ease the burden of minutia on teams. While implementing automation has trade-offs to consider, and can even cause disruption to certain business processes, it also can have immense benefits if implemented correctly.

SECURITY - Why We Desperately Need Better Cybersecurity

Monday, Aug 27, 2018

BLOG POST: The potential of the Internet of Things, as you might assume, is positively staggering as an entirely interconnected world would mean unprecedented access to data that can be used to shape the future.

INSIGHTS - How Tech Makes Investing More Accessible

Monday, Aug 27, 2018

BLOG POST: New technology is revolutionizing what the average person can do with money. We’re seeing the rise of new types of investments, higher levels of accessibility for existing investments, and more efficiency, which ultimately leads to even further consumer engagement.

INSIGHTS - What is Omni-Channel? 10 Examples of Brands Providing an Excellent Omni-Channel Experience

Tuesday, Aug 28, 2018

BLOG POST: Technology has created an opportunity for customers to move from store to website to phone, chat, and text message, all at their own convenience. This has driven a need for brands to start investing in business management tools that can help them reach customers wherever they are, whenever they have questions or need help.

INSIGHTS - Scattered Information? Try These Techniques To Rope In Wandering Data

Wednesday, Sep 26, 2018

BLOG POST: Manually gathering data from multiple sources takes time, yet it’s a necessary task when data analysis drives your decision-making. With data coming from multiple sources and programs that don’t automatically talk to each other, processing data can be an arduous task.

INSIGHTS - How to Make Your PC Run Faster

Wednesday, Oct 10, 2018

BLOG POST: If you’ve had your computer for more than a year or two, you’ve likely noticed its basic functions slowing down. There are many reasons for this, including the excessive (and increasing) number of files bogging the system down, and bugs in your operating system.

INSIGHTS - 7 Tips for Faster 3D Rendering

Thursday, Nov 15, 2018

BLOG POST: 3D rendering is a miracle of modern technology, capable of everything from creating lavish gaming experiences to simulating real-world environments for businesses. Unfortunately, your setup might suffer from lag, or delays that make it aggravating to render anything—but there are some simple changes that can improve your performance.

INSIGHTS - Excessive Screen Time: Not a Problem Specific to Kids

Thursday, Nov 15, 2018

BLOG POST: Everywhere you look there are kids – from toddlers to teenagers – with noses buried in screens. Whether it’s a computer, tablet, smartphone, or TV, our youth are spending way too much time sitting in front of screens. But this isn’t a problem reserved for kids.

INSIGHTS - Is Your Cloud Storage Solution Safe? Here’s How to Tell

Friday, Dec 7, 2018

BLOG POST: Millions of everyday consumers, professionals, and business owners now rely on cloud storage to share, back up, and store information long-term. And for good reason—cloud storage allows you to access your files from anywhere, and it’s often cheaper than mainstream data storage solutions.

INSIGHTS - Is It Possible for Macs to Get Viruses?

Friday, Dec 7, 2018

BLOG POST: For a long time, Macs have been touted as virus-proof, and many Mac owners still falsely believe that they’re immune from viruses and other types of malware. In reality, though Macs do have different types of vulnerabilities than their PC counterparts, it is possible for Macs to acquire malware.

INSIGHTS - IEEE Computer Society Predicts the Future of Tech: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2019

Wednesday, Dec 19, 2018

BLOG POST: The Computer Society's predictions, based on an in-depth analysis by a team of leading technology experts, identify top technologies that have substantial potential to disrupt the market in the year 2019.

INSIGHTS - How You Can Enhance Your Workplace Using IoT?

Friday, Dec 21, 2018

BLOG POST: The IoT (Internet of Things) has already penetrated in almost every industry. It’s time for workplaces to revolutionize themselves with this technology.

INSIGHTS - Machine Learning Is Bad at Context. Here's How We Fix It.

Friday, Dec 21, 2018

BLOG POST: Machine learning is amazing at many tasks. Our most advanced algorithms can process and understand data faster than any human ever could, and we’re even to the point where they can beat our best players at some of the most complex games in existence.

INSIGHTS - Incorporating Decentralized Infrastructure For Greatest Effective Productivity

Thursday, Jan 17, 2019

BLOG POST: Businesses today don’t require an office in a specific location. They don’t require costly end-user devices. They don’t require an on-site server array. You don’t even need anyone in payroll, if you get the right cloud apps. Cloud computing, in fact, is key to all these infrastructural cost reductions.

SECURITY - A Look at the Latest in Smart-Home Security and Automation

Thursday, Jan 17, 2019

BLOG POST: Home security has been an area of great interest among technology companies for several decades. But in the past five to seven years, new technology has taken this industry to unprecedented new heights: totally revolutionizing the gadgets, systems, and devices that protect homeowners from external threats.

INSIGHTS - 5 Questions to ask yourself before you buy Smart Home Products

Friday, Feb 1, 2019

BLOG POST: Smart homes are trending. It is the latest and greatest in home automation. It has many benefits. But, before you go ahead and buy your next addition, ask yourself the questions we list below. It might just save you some effort and money in the long run.

INSIGHTS - Website Loading Speed and Why It Matters

Friday, Feb 1, 2019

BLOG POST: It is important to understand that today's buyer/customer/target audience is always online. This means that if they want to access information online, they will do it through their desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Also, this digital consumer is also quite impatient. They do not give a second chance to websites that are not optimized for mobile devices or websites that take too long to load. If you want to make sure you don’t lose half your target market because your website takes forever to load, make sure you focus on your website's speed.

Global Software Engineering

Friday, Aug 31, 2012

BLOGPOST: Companies in IT and software business will fail if they don’t master global software engineering. Prestigious journal Harvard Business Manager recently wrote that outsourcing with global IT services and software development ranks as one of the top business ideas of the past 100 years.

Why Lean?

Friday, Aug 31, 2012

BLOGPOST: With more or less regular intervals we see new software engineering fads like maturity models, RUP, XP, and scrum. This is nothing new, and many other disciplines experience the same things.

Welcome

Friday, Sep 28, 2012

BLOGPOST: Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in technology today, and for good reason. Will the cloud completely transform IT and other industries? Is the cloud something truly new, or just a rehash of old technologies? Can we possibly create a cloud environment...

Cloud Computing: A New Label on Old Technologies?

Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012

BLOGPOST: Cloud computing shares characteristics with many technologies or technological buzzwords that have been around for a while. It relies directly on virtualization, which has been used by companies to improve datacenter efficiency for a long time; it has the concept of computing resources being delivered on-demand, to be paid for on a usage basis, similar to the idea of utility computing; most, if not all, cloud-based software is sold on a pay-as-you go based, using a ...

Better Estimation Means Better Projects

Friday, Oct 12, 2012

BLOGPOST: Estimating size or resources is one of the most important topics in software engineering and IT. You will not deliver according to expectations, if you don’t plan. And, you cannot plan if you don’t know the underlying dependencies and estimates.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Star West 2012

Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012

BLOGPOST: Star West 2012, located at the Disneyland Hotel, just wrapped up, and after five days full of information on the cutting edge of software quality engineering, it’s pretty evident that this conference is here to stay. 2012’s content-offerings were varied and interesting, but I’m here to talk about the expo floor.

MOBILE - MobileCon

Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012

BLOGPOST: The inaugural MobileCon event just wrapped up in San Diego, bringing 5,000 IT professionals from various fields down to an unusually rainy southern California. Designed specifically for the IT executive and professional, most of the content at the conference was about different enterprise solutions centered around the increasingly complex mobile marketplace.

Amazon Outage, Complexity and Interdependence

Thursday, Oct 25, 2012

BLOGPOST: If you follow any kind of news on cloud computing, or even technology in general, then you’ve probably heard about the recent outage that Amazon’s cloud services suffered on Monday, October 22. Why do we still see major sites and services being taken down by such outages?

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Why Lean?

Friday, Aug 31, 2012

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Git

Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012

BLOGPOST: Traditional version control systems derive their requirements from software configuration management practices. The focus of these practices is to identify, control, and disseminate the software’s configuration and changes. A system, like CVS or Subversion, that can retrieve the files corresponding to a specific software version, list the changes that led to it, and keep developers from trampling on each others’ feet satisfies these requirements and can be a boon over exchanging files through a shared folder or email. However, configuration management mainly prevents bad things from happening during software development; it provides (valuable) control, but few tools that genuinely aid a developer’s everyday life.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Don't Install Software by Hand

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012

BLOGPOST: An IT system’s setup and configuration is a serious affair. It increasingly affects us developers mainly due to the proliferation and complexity of internet-facing systems. Fortunately, we can control and conquer this complexity by adopting IT-system configuration management tools.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - How to Calculate an Operation's Memory Consumption

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012

BLOGPOST: How can you determine how much memory is consumed by a specific operation of a Unix program? Valgrind's Massif subsystem could help you in this regard, but it can be difficult to isolate a specific operation from Massif's output. Here is another, simpler way.

INSIGHTS - SuperComputing 2012 (SC12)

Thursday, Nov 29, 2012

BLOGPOST: After a snow-filled week in Salt Lake City for SC ’12, the IEEE Computer Society and ACM co-sponsored conference on supercomputing and high-powered computing, I tried to relax in my airplane seat. When striking up the usual small-talk that accompanies flying coach, I found out that the gentleman sitting in the aisle seat was leaving the conference as well. The man in the middle? Not a techie, and he posed an interesting question to us both: “What exactly is supercomputing?” I won’t bore you with the answer that we gave, but I will say that the question is an important one. Most of the conferences that I find myself at are focused on some narrow aspect of computing, be it mobility, graphics, or software engineering, but I was very excited to be going to my first Supercomputing conference. I like the idea of having a place where HPC, networking, data storage, and education all mix together. Most of my excitement came from curiosity about what kinds of stuff I’d find in the exhibit hall. Would there be flashy booths? Huge HPC racks? Cutting edge applications? Yes.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - A Bad Penny

Monday, Dec 10, 2012

BLOGPOST: More than 500 years ago (or April of 2010, whichever seems more likely), I started this blog with the big, bold, brilliant idea of keeping it limited to 300 words or less about (and I quote): "The Glamorous and Exciting World of Publishing." Yeah, I talk like that.

BIG DATA - Industry and Academia at Supercomputing

Thursday, Dec 13, 2012

BLOGPOST: Positive partnerships between academia and industry are the wave of the future for HPC. At the recent Supercomputing conference, these partnerships were some of the more fascinating and encouraging aspects of this growing area of computing.

When Will You Pay Back Your Technical Debt?

Friday, Nov 23, 2012

BLOGPOST: Debt is bad. We hear this simple rule from parents when they educate their children on the proper use of money, from politicians when they try to control economy, and of course from our managers when we try to sell a proposal which needs investment. Expenses should be done from our earned money. On the other hand, success often stems from borrowed money. Apple was started in 1976 with borrowed money from an Intel executive. Later Steve Jobs borrowed millions from Bill Gates to turn around the loss-making Apple. There seems to be good and bad debt.

INSIGHTS - Rock, Paper, Scissors

Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013

BLOGPOST: People tell me “there’s just something about the feel of a book in my hands” when explaining why they don’t want to embrace digital delivery methods. I mean, honestly, of course there’s “something” about holding a book: it’s what we’ve done as human beings for two thousand years. It’s ingrained in our minds as The Way Things Are Done. If it hadn’t been for the Chinese and Gutenberg, we’d be hauling around big slabs of stone and drawing pictures of what we had for lunch. But here’s a wild and crazy idea: What if, in a digital age in which content is suddenly, miraculously, for the first time ever, liberated from the physical constraints of the page (or scroll or folio or whatever), what if in such an amazing time we actually treated content as relevant to its medium? That’s a fancy-pants way of saying this: Maybe content that’s delivered on computer screens, or tablet surfaces, or smartphones, should not necessarily be expected to look and act as if it’s being delivered on a piece of paper.

LISA 2012

Monday, Jan 7, 2013

BLOGPOST: LISA ’12, Usenix’s 26th Large Installation System Administration conference, brought more than a thousand tech professionals down to sunny (well, partly cloudy) San Diego, and by all accounts, the conference was a success. It’s always intellectually invigorating to see so many smart people together in the same place, discussing the impacts of cloud computing, mobile security, IPv6m, system administration, and HPC.

INSIGHTS - Getting What You Pay For

Friday, Jan 18, 2013

BLOGPOST: In a recent column in the Los Angeles Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik expressed dismay and horror that, while a book-purchaser “owns” the book purchased, and can do as he or she pleases with it— read it, lend it, give it away, sell it, store it on a shelf for a few decades, feed it to the cat—those poor creatures who download books onto e-readers and mobile devices are only receiving a license, with limited ownership rights, and can never fully enjoy the right of owning the book. Their cats, in short, go hungry. He’s not wrong, of course. It is true that the purchase of a book from, say, Amazon’s Kindle Store is in fact not a purchase but a license agreement. Readers are not buying a book: they’re buying the right to access the book’s content stored in Amazon’s cloud.

Bridging the Twin Peaks - Winning with Requirements and Architecture

Monday, Jan 21, 2013

BLOGPOST: Requirements and architecture of any system thus are highly interdependent. Projects without early architecture evaluation will overlook critical requirements. They will fail in prioritizing requirements. They face budget overruns and rework due to inappropriate and late design changes. This blog looks how to bridge the twin peaks of requirements and architecture.

Will “Cloud” Ever Be a Term of the Past?

Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013

BLOGPOST: As the focus of the popular imaginary turns from cloud computing to newer, shinier technological buzzwords, we are left to ponder: will cloud computing ever be a thing of the past?

CES 2013 In Retrospect

Monday, Feb 4, 2013

BLOGPOST: After having a chance to reflect on this year's CES, it's nice to sit back and parse some of the more potentially far-reaching technologies that maybe didn't get the right amount of press coverage. From cutting-edge tech in TVs and connected homes to gizmos and gadgets, the future looks bright and full of algorithms and automated assistants (and assistance).

Free Markets and the Cloud

Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013

BLOGPOST: Can we ever have a cloud entirely governed by free-market principles?

HIGH PERFORMANCE - My Big Data Obsession

Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013

BLOGPOST: It started with public offerings last year of companies like Facebook and LinkedIn--which at their core are Big Data companies--and Splunk, a Big Data company targeting businesses. This combination of the potential impact of Big Data on my own life plus the sense that these IPOs foretold a sea change in the technology landscape intrigued me. Just as I was finishing the Ironman, I embarked on another journey, to understand the full landscape of Big Data. Much of the knowledge I have gained in the process I plan to share in this column and in my upcoming book, Big Data Demystified: How Big Data Is Changing The Way We Live, Love and Learn.

HIGH PERFORMANCE - Seven Big Data Insights From Facebook, Netflix, And Others

Thursday, Feb 21, 2013

BLOGPOST: It’s rare to get Big Data experts from companies like Facebook, Netflix and HortonWorks all together for a discussion. But last Wednesday evening at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, California, we were able to do just that. My guests on the Big Date Date Night panel (so named because it took place the evening before Valentine’s Day) were HortonWorks Director of Data Sciences Ofer Mendelevitch, Netflix Director of Analytics Chris Pouliot, SurveyMonkey Director of Analytics Fedor Dzegilenko, Wix Business Analyst Isaac Buahnick and Facebook Head of Analytics Ken Rudin. Here are the takeaways:

Business Intelligence and Big Data - Part I

Monday, Feb 25, 2013

BLOGPOST: Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence and Big Data - Part II

Monday, Feb 25, 2013

BLOGPOST: Business Intelligence and Big Data

Web Application Security

Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013

BLOGPOST: A blog entry about web application security best practices.

INSIGHTS - All the Pretty Ponies

Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013

BLOGPOST: In its final report on open access, published in June of 2012, the U.K.’s Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, led by Dame Janet Finch, CBE (“the Finch Report”) made this observation: “The principle that the results of research that has been publicly funded should be freely accessible in the public domain is a compelling one, and fundamentally unanswerable.” Most researchers and scholars who can both understand and use the results that flow from publicly-funded research have, as my steering committee professor said, free and easy access to it. If the people working in the institutions who need the data have access to it through existing channels, where exactly is the necessity to implement vast-reaching changes in the scholarly publishing model?

Managing Security Risk, the CSO Panel at RSA

Thursday, Mar 7, 2013

BLOGPOST: Chief Security Officers, by their nature, have a tall order in today’s world. From managing teams to managing information, their world may seem like a mix of war room and board room to those of us on the outside. At this year’s RSA, Gary McGraw, Cigital’s CTO, moderated a discussion on how CSOs manage security risk. The panel, featuring Eric Grosse (Vice President, Security Engineering at Google), Gary Warzala (CISO, Visa), Jason Witty (CISO, US Bank), and Howard Schmidt (former Presidential Cyber-coordinator), entertained as much as it enlightened the packed room.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Mastering Functional Safety

Friday, Mar 8, 2013

BLOGPOST: We increasingly rely on complex electronic functions to ensure functional safety. These functions are realized by systems of sensors, actuators and interconnected electronic control units. To mitigate product liability risks associated with such systems as well as to ensure the high level of quality under varying operational conditions, significant improvements to engineering processes are necessary. This blog shows how to master functional safety.

Big Data Processing Pipeline & Challenges Infographic

Monday, Mar 11, 2013

BLOGPOST: An infographic on Big Data processing stages and challenges associated with each stage.

Security Trends from the Expo Floor

Friday, Mar 22, 2013

BLOGPOST: We’ve been so quick to develop technology and devices that do cool things that we sometimes forget to make sure that those shiny new toys are, in fact, secure and safe. In using this year’s RSA as a snapshot of the trends in cyber-security, a lot of the focus falls into mobile end-point security, the secure cloud-as-anchor, and creating an insurmountable defense.

INSIGHTS - When the Invisible Hand is a Fist

Friday, Mar 22, 2013

BLOGPOST: H-WOOD TOP TRADE’S BAD BOFFOLA FORCES FLIP: VARIETY VENTURES VIRTUAL, PASSES ON PULP For those unfamiliar with the unique phraseology of Daily Variety, the entertainment industry’s newspaper, it’s how the century-old paper might describe its situation today: Hollywood’s Top Trade Publication’s Poor Financial Performance Forces a Change: Variety to go Online-only, Ends Daily Paper Publication. Anyway, it’s true: Daily Variety newspaper, which has published industry gossip, insider information, and entertainment news since 1905, is no more. There’s a website, supplemented by a weekly (print) magazine that’s probably not long for this world, either. We knew everything in publishing was going to change; it’s just changing right now, and very, very fast.

Internet of Things and Big Data

Monday, Mar 25, 2013

BLOGPOST: Challenges of technology and privacy with IoT data

Top 3 Web Applications Security Threats Infographic

Friday, Mar 29, 2013

BLOGPOST: Top 3 Web Applications security threats and some advise as how to prevent or minimize their impacts.

Information Security: Risk Assessment & Management

Monday, Apr 8, 2013

BLOGPOST: Information security is a 2 step process of risk assessment and risk management.

Fighting Terror with Predictive Analytics

Friday, Apr 26, 2013

BLOGPOST: Using predictive analytics to predict and prevent terrorism

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Measuring Productivity

Monday, Jul 1, 2013

BLOGPOST: You cannot control what you cannot measure. This holds especially for software productivity, where many companies struggle how to measure and improve it. Often we in software and IT fail to understand that productivity relates to delivering value – as opposed to collecting features and increasing complexity. This blog will provide some guidance and hints for measuring productivity. Let me know of any further question or stimulus arising from this blog.

E3, After the Dust has Settled

Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013

BLOGPOST: Now that the dust has settled on another Electronic Entertainment Expo, it’s interesting to take a look back and see some of the announcements and innovations unveiled at the annual show. For me, it wasn’t about the games with the bloated budgets; it was about the things hiding in the corners, waiting to speak about the future of serious games, peripherals, and the industry growing up.

Working with Hadoop : A practical Guide – Part 1

Friday, Jul 26, 2013

BLOGPOST: Part I of a practical experience with Hadoop. First the architecture.

Working with Hadoop: A practical Guide – Part 2

Friday, Aug 2, 2013

BLOGPOST: Part two of working with Hadoop: its 2 components, HDFS and MapReduce, my choice distribution and online resources.

Working with Hadoop: A practical Guide – Part 3

Tuesday, Aug 13, 2013

BLOGPOST: Installation and configuration of Cloudera's management server and clients.

Hybrid Clouds Beyond the Hype

Saturday, Aug 17, 2013

BLOGPOST: Are we really seeing widespread adoption of the hybrid cloud model, or is hybrid just the new buzzword for people who want to say they're using cloud computing?

Working with Hadoop: A Practical Guide – Part 4

Monday, Aug 19, 2013

PODCAST: Hardware recommendations for your cluster & Hadoop's physical architecture explained

The Innovation Power of the Cloud

Monday, Aug 26, 2013

BLOGPOST: In addition to all its other benefits, cloud computing brings an incredible chance for innovation for companies of all sizes. The revolutions enabled by cloud computing are only at their beginning.

Working with Hadoop: Part 5

Friday, Aug 30, 2013

BLOGPOST: Hadoop important files and commands

Native Apps vs. HTML5/Responsive Design: A diversion of sorts

Friday, Sep 6, 2013

BLOGPOST: HTML vs. iOS Native Apps: What makes more sense?

Working with Hadoop: A practical Guide – Part 6

Friday, Oct 11, 2013

BLOGPOST: Configuring Hadoop for a single node experiment

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Advancing with Lifecycle Management

Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013

BLOGPOST: Rising cost pressure is forcing manufacturers and their suppliers to jointly and consistently master product development. Product and application life-cycle management (PLM and ALM) is the primary mechanism for integrating engineering processes, tools and people across the domains of system, software, hardware and mechanical engineering. This blog will provide some guidance and hints for successfully introducing PLM and ALM. Let me know of any further question or stimulus arising from this blog.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Technology Enablers for Better Cloud Archiving

Wednesday, Dec 4, 2013

PODCAST: The decreasing cost of Cloud-based storage has made long term storage, or archiving files, financially affordable. In January 2013, Aberdeen surveyed 123 organizations to learn how they use the Public Cloud as part of their IT infrastructure, including a variation of Cloud storage – Cloud archiving. This report focuses on the technology enablers (related computing tools) that lead to successful Cloud archiving programs.

SECURITY - Is @UnifyCo Unified? Is #ProjectAnsible the Answer?

Tuesday, Dec 10, 2013

PODCAST: Today Unify (the next-generation communications company formerly known as Siemens Enterprise Communications) made the surprise announcement that their CEO Hamid Akhavan is being replaced by Dean Douglas, currently President and CEO of enterprise technology distributor Westcon Group Inc.

NETWORKING - One OpenText: E Pluribus Unum, Enterprise Software Style

Friday, Dec 13, 2013

BLOGPOST: It’s becoming the latest trend in enterprise software company evolution. After years of merger and acquisition, in which dozens of products and thousands of customers were dumped helter-skelter into a single corporate bucket, yet another agglomeration of disparate products, services, and technologies is trying to rationalize its offerings. This time the company is OpenText, and the rationalized product set is code-named Red Oxygen, a collection of five suites of functionality that span search, analytics, archiving, publishing and presentment, social collaboration, process management, integration, content management, and a development and deployment platform.

Supercomputing and Big Names

Wednesday, Dec 11, 2013

BLOGPOST: While navigating SC13's Expo Floor, it was clear that some of the Big Names in computing are helping researchers and scientists achieve the full potential of HPC systems.

INSIGHTS - With Friends Like These…. Uncovering Responsibility in Avon’s Rollout Failure

Wednesday, Jan 8, 2014

PODCAST: “Victory has many fathers. Defeat is an orphan”. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, on the Bay of Pigs Fiasco It’s great line, and one that popular culture has changed to success has many fathers and failure is an orphan. JFK’s line is a stirring example of a leader taking ultimate responsibility for what happened under his watch. But the truth, which any student of the art of failure knows well, is that it takes as many people to kill an undertaking as it does to make it succeed.

MOBILE - The New Year in SAP-land: Selling Customer Success (Part I)

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2014

PODCAST: I’ve realized recently that despite everything we analysts do and say about enterprise software company strategies, new products and technologies, trends, and all the other coins of the analyst realm, what matters most is how the sales force sells. If the field sales force can’t get in front of the right influencer at the right time with the right mix of product and strategy, then every analysis, recommendation, critique and consulting gig geared towards fine tuning go-to-market strategies quickly goes to hell in a hand basket. The bottom line is no go-to-market strategy is so perfect that it can’t die an ignominious death in the field.

BIG DATA - The New Year in SAP-land: Selling Customer Success (Part II)

Friday, Jan 17, 2014

BLOGPOST: Where we last left off, I was admonishing the SAP field to greater glory around the theme of customer success. Here’s the rest of my letter to the SAP field: Sell Value, Not Platforms: Now I’m going to probably get yelled again by some of your execs, but trust me, there are going to be very few customers who see you walking in the door trying to sell a massive platform reboot and sob with relief at the prospect.

SECURITY - When Security Breaches Hit Close to Home: Ransomware

Tuesday, Feb 4, 2014

PODCAST: In the small town of Greenland, New Hampshire (population 3,653, based on the 2012 US Census estimates), on the day after Christmas 2013, a town employee opened an email indicating that they had received a voice message from AT&T … and infected the computers at the Town Hall with malicious software known as CryptoLocker.

CLOUD - Satya Nadella, CEO: Good News for Microsoft Dynamics, Bad News for the Competition

Monday, Feb 10, 2014

BLOGPOST: The ascendency of Satya Nadella to the top spot at Microsoft is welcome news to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. He’s an insider who knows not just where the skeletons are buried, but, more importantly, where the gemstones are buried too.

INSIGHTS - Meet the New Microsoft Boss, Maybe Not the Same as the Old Boss

Thursday, Feb 13, 2014

BLOGPOST: Microsoft made the announcement that CEO Steve Ballmer was stepping down and would be replaced by longtime Microsoft executive Satya Nadella. My first reaction to the news was how small a blip it made in public awareness. Talk to any number of people on the street and probably very few even know that this change happened. Even on technology news sites the announcement received, at best, equal billing with other tech news of the day and, in some cases, was overshadowed by coverage of Facebook’s tenth anniversary.

BIG DATA - Real-Time Analytics: Executive and Line of Business Perspectives

Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014

BLOGPOST: Aberdeen asked adopters of real-time analytics a simple question: who is the primary driver behind your analytical initiatives? The majority respondents fell into one of two groups: those with analytics driven by executives and those driven by line of business (LoB) decision makers. The questions then became: how does the source of motivation for adopting real-time analytics affect the day-to-day realities and impact of data-driven decisions.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Testing, Training, Succeeding….

Thursday, Feb 20, 2014

BLOGPOST: There are many nerdy little corners of enterprise software that don’t get the big buzz effect of overly hyped concepts like “social” and “mobile”, but never let inattention lure you into complacency. There are many factors that lead to project success or failure, and some of the more nerdy are in fact much more relevant to overall enterprise success than giving away iPads to your salespeople or trying to foist some collaboration software on an un-collaborative workforce.

INSIGHTS - Oracle’s BlueKai Acquisition Addresses Need for Integrated Digital Engagement

Monday, Mar 10, 2014

BLOGPOST: Following Oracle’s acquisition of the Eloqua marketing automation platform (MAP) and Responsys campaign management , BlueKai represents a compelling addition to Oracle’s Customer Experience Cloud. While the devil is often in both the technical and organizational synthesis details of acquisitions, something Oracle has plenty of experience with, the BlueKai-Eloqua/Responsys combination opens up the possibility to support truly integrated digital marketing and customer experience management.

GTC 2014 and the Power of GPU Computing

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2014

BLOGPOST: Featuring insights in GPU-powered research and visual computing, GTC 2014 will be the one of the world's largest GPU developer conferences.

SECURITY - RSA Conference 2014: Product Roadmap for the Information Security Industry

Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014

BLOGPOST: In RSA Conference 2014: The Bully, the Nerdy Kid, and the Rumble That Didn’t Happen (6 March 2014), I noted that among the dozen high-profile keynotes, just four of them even mentioned the escalating tension between the role of surveillance in our government’s mission to defend us, and in its mission to protect our privacy and civil liberties – and one of those was from the government itself.

MOBILE - The Windows Phone Dilemma: Are Crapps All that Matter, or Can Dynamics Help Save Microsoft’s $7 billion Nokia bet?

Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014

BLOGPOST: It’s almost ironic that using a Windows 8 phone is actually a major geek credential – albeit geek more in the mold of driving a DeLorean than tooling around in a state of the art Tesla. But as a Windows 8 phone user for the past five months, I can say that no one notices these days when you have a new iPhone, but running around with a Windows 8 phone certainly draws comment, a good deal of it polite, if not positive. Perceptions aside, my Nokia 928 and its software are a pretty damn good tool for work, and as a business tool it’s pretty much on par with my old iPhone – albeit not a perfect one. And, if you put the larger form factor of the Nokia product line into the equation, the extra real-estate makes a huge difference in my day to day work and consumer life.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Traceability

Tuesday, Mar 11, 2014

BLOGPOST: Ever corrected a problem and introduced two new defects? Introduced a last-minute change and accidentally removed an important feature? Growing governance concerns demand traceability between needs and solutions to preserve work product integrity. Traceability facilitates maintainability and dramatically reduces cost of rework. However without the right methodology and technology, traceability can be highly inefficient and thus rather decrease value.

HIGH PERFORMANCE - Making some Noise about Signals: The Benefits of Predictive Analytics

Friday, Mar 21, 2014

BLOGPOST: I’ve been working my way through Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise and early in the book he shares an interesting finding about the predictions of political pundits. Basically, there is a negative correlation between how often a pundit appears on TV and the accuracy of their predictions. The louder and more visible the talking head, the worse their predictions tend to be. I share this because in business media, prognostications continue to get bolder, louder, and more frequent. Erudite experts present vast databases and newfangled models that fuel their analytical crystal balls. However, the media’s love affair with data-driven predictions has not proven infectious in the Business Intelligence (BI) community. Past Aberdeen Group research has extolled the value and benefits of predictive analytics in a number of functions and industries. However, new data from Aberdeen’s 2014 Business Analytics survey shows that adoption of predictive analytics has not taken off as one may have, well, predicted.

INSIGHTS - Celebrating the IT Community Plus BigDataSDNBYOD-Whatever at Interop 2014

Thursday, Apr 10, 2014

PODCAST: The official theme for the Interop 2014 in Las Vegas this week is “Celebrating the IT Community” but we all know the “real” theme of the show will quickly become apparent based on what everyone is talking about. Two years ago it was all about BYOD. Last year was the SDN coming out party. So what’s the overriding theme this year? Well, there’s still a lot of talk about SDN. And BYOD is still getting lots of attention. Walk around and you’ll hear a lot about big data analytics and Internet of Things. Plus discussion about lots of other technologies and trends. Come to think of it, maybe “Celebrating the IT Community” isn’t that bad.

INSIGHTS - Infor Innovates their User Experience with Hook & Loop

Tuesday, Apr 22, 2014

PODCAST: Earlier this week I attended Infor’s Innovation Summit at their offices in New York City. It was an opportunity to both check out the amazing renovations that the company has made to their offices as well as catch up on some of the changes they have made to their large portfolio of enterprise software products. Infor is unique in that they have an internal creative agency, Hook & Loop, that is tasked with changing the overall experience of the software and making it more easy to use, modern, and functional. The influence of Hook & Loop extends through the software, to the marketing, and into the design of Infor’s office itself.

SECURITY - Security Follies, Part 2: Video Surveillance and the Traveling Public

Monday, May 5, 2014

BLOGPOST: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Hawaiian Airlines Flight 45. Our 2,300 mile flight from San Jose to Maui will take about five and a half hours, and we’ll reach a maximum cruising altitude of about 38,000 feet.” I wonder if the 15-year old boy who was stowed away in the wheel well for the landing gear of the Boeing 767 heard this announcement. Somewhat miraculously, he survived the flight. This case should be the poster child for the difference between video surveillance (human monitoring, analysis and response to video data as it is being captured and displayed), and video analytics (automated monitoring and analysis of video data, to identify and track objects, to analyze motion, and most importantly to generate alerts on exceptions or abnormal events for humans to investigate).

SECURITY - Security, Privacy, Big Data, and Informatica: Making Data Safe at the Source of Use

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

BLOGPOST: It’s hard to find a set of topics more relevant to the interplay of technology and society than security and privacy. From Glenn Greenwald’s new book on NSA leaker Edward Snowden to the recent finding of a European Union court that Google has to drastically alter the persistence of user data in its services, the societal fallout from the Internet as it enters its Big Data phase is everywhere.

SECURITY - eBay, the World’s Online Marketplace for Stolen Identities: 145M Accounts Compromised

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

BLOGPOST: Yet another compromise of millions of consumer records has been disclosed, in this case by eBay. A summary of the facts provided so far by the company, along with some parenthetical comments and observations from me: A “small number of employee login credentials” were compromised, allowing unauthorized access to eBay’s corporate network.

INSIGHTS - SAP, Ariba, and the Future of B2B Networks

Thursday, May 29, 2014

BLOGPOST: Can the Internet of Highly Insecure Things Be Trusted to Run the One True Network? As the dust settles on the recent changes at SAP, and with SAPPHIRE looming large, it’s worth taking a look at what I think will be one of the most interesting, ambitious, and potentially lucrative bets SAP has made in a long time. The bet is on Ariba and its vision for a global, competitor-crushing, B2B network. At stake is nothing short of a major reconfiguration of the global economy, global trade, global service delivery, and pretty everything else that falls under the rubric of B2B commerce as we know it.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Catching Up At WWDC

Friday, Jun 13, 2014

BLOGPOST: Over the years, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has seen its share of major announcements and new products, from the rise of OS X to the first Intel-based Macs to many of the key iPhone evolutions. At first glance, the 2014 WWDC, held this week in San Francisco, doesn’t look like it will be as impactful as some of its predecessors. However, some of the announcements this week, especially for developers, could signal some big changes for Apple down the road.

INSIGHTS - PTC’s ‘Things of the Internet’ Strategy

Thursday, Jun 19, 2014

BLOGPOST: Earlier this week, in the opening address of PTCLive 2014, CEO Jim Heppelmann challenged us to think about The Internet of Things (IoT) – a vision for an interconnected world where products are enhanced and transformed by the seamless interconnectivity of devices and sensor-enabled objects. While I am not as dismissive of IoT as my colleague Kevin Prouty, I agree that the concept is certainly not new. Like Kevin, I first heard about IoT in the 90’s (although, we didn’t call it that back then; and come to think about it, I am still waiting for my refrigerator to automatically re-order milk!).

INSIGHTS - Alteryx Stays Classy in San Diego for Inspire 2014

Friday, Jun 20, 2014

PODCAST: I spent the last three days in San Diego (not a tough sell in June, or any other month) for Alteryx Inspire 2014. CEO Dean Stoecker kicked things off on Tuesday, taking the stage flanked by a two-member uniformed marching band and the power guitar riffs of Muse’s “Uprising.” I prepared myself for more theatrics in the style of The Wolf of Wall Street, but Mr. Stoecker smoothly transitioned into introducing the conference’s theme of “analytic freedom.” He made several points that resonated with me and my research, including changing the role of IT “from gatekeepers to air traffic controllers” and putting as many tools as possible in the hands of the “modern data analyst” working at the line of business.

CLOUD - PTC’s Acquisition of Atego: The Importance of Systems Engineering

Monday, Jun 23, 2014

BLOGPOST: Yesterday I was one of a few Aberdeen Analysts that attended PTC Live 2014. As Kevin Prouty highlighted yesterday, there was a huge focus on the Internet of Things (IoT). In fact, IoT was injected into almost every presentation and break out session; not surprising given the recent acquisition of ThingWorx, PTC’s new IoT and M2M platform. However, there was another acquisition that was announced in Jim Heppelmann’s keynote address that deserves more fanfare – PTC’s acquisition of the systems engineering company Atego.

Knights and Blacksmiths of Security

Wednesday, Jul 30, 2014

BLOGPOST: Metaphorically speaking, blacksmiths and knights would necessarily "fix" security problems in different ways. Here are some of the techniques as discussed at 2014's RSA conference.

SECURITY - Consumer Passwords Keep Falling, Like Domino’s

Friday, Aug 15, 2014

PODCAST: Quick – how many times in the last couple of months have you been advised to change your password, because of a high-profile security breach or vulnerability? Let’s see now … there was the highly sensationalized Heartbleed bug, which probably affected several sites that you use regularly. Then there was the breach at eBay, which compromised a database containing the passwords and personal information of 145 million subscribers.

World Wide Web Turns 25 But What Will It Look Like at 30? - See more at: http://blogs.aberdeen.com/communications/world-wide-web-turns-25-but-what-wil

MOBILE - World Wide Web Turns 25 But What Will It Look Like at 30? - See more at: http://blogs.aberdeen.com/communications/world-wide-web-turns-25-but-what-wil

Friday, Aug 22, 2014

BLOGPOST: As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web, let’s take a little bit of time to look back at the history of this transformative technology and also look forward to what the next few years hold in store for the web.

Acumatica -- Living the Channel Challenge in the Midmarket

Monday, Sep 1, 2014

BLOGPOST: Acumatica -- Living the Channel Challenge in the Midmarket

BIG DATA - SuccessFactor’s Success Factors: Questions in Search of Answers

Monday, Sep 15, 2014

BLOGPOST: I’m heading to the SuccessFactors user conference, SuccessConnect, in Las Vegas this week and, as a prelude to the conference, here’s some of the questions I’m looking to have answered during the course of the conference.

CLOUD - SuccessFactors, Workday, and SAP – Answers and More

Thursday, Sep 18, 2014

PODCAST: SuccessFactors’ user conference, SuccessConnect, has come and gone, and the four questions I posed in my previous post about the challenges facing SuccessFactors and SAP were largely answered. But, as in any good dialectic, one good answer is just the starting point for another good question….. I’ll start with the Workday question/answer in this post, and continue with answers to my other three questions in a subsequent post.

CLOUD - Even without Larry, Oracle’s Problems Will Continue

Tuesday, Sep 23, 2014

BLOGPOST: The fundamental problems plaguing Oracle won’t go away with Larry moving into an executive chairman role, this is more lipstick on a pig than a serious attempt to get the company back on course. The problem is that shuffling the deck chairs does nothing for dealing with the company’s three fundamental problems. Until these are addressed, I think it’s safe to assume there will be no turnaround any time soon.

NETWORKING - Smart Cities: The Future Is Now

Friday, Oct 3, 2014

BLOGPOST: With the world’s population now exceeding seven billion, many municipalities in both emerging markets and developed nations are paying closer attention on how they manage their infrastructure and resources. A number of larger cities are well on their way to becoming smart cities. Market research firm Frost & Sullivan succinctly sums up how these cities are now being defined – built on solutions and technology leading to the adoption of at least five of eight smart parameters – smart energy, smart building, smart mobility, smart healthcare, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart governance and smart education, and smart citizen.

INSIGHTS - HP’s Breakup is Oracle’s Future

Friday, Oct 10, 2014

BLOGPOST: The news that Meg Whitman is finally pulling the plug on the Sisyphian task of trying to resurrect HP has profound implications for the future of Oracle, and not just because the mess that Whitman was unable to unravel was an HP made functionally unmanageable by a previous HP CEO: Mark Hurd, now co-CEO of Oracle. I think Oracle has been on the leadership skids for a while, but Hurd’s track record at HP, the end-game of which is now being played out in the breakup of the once-vaunted tech leader, provides a good roadmap for how Oracle ends up on the chopping block like HP.

CLOUD - Can Salesforce.com Deliver the Complex Business Processes it Aspires To?

Friday, Oct 24, 2014

BLOGPOST: It’s hard to slog through mega-conferences like Dreamforce, and not just because 135,000 people are way too much for San Francisco and its Moscone Center to handle. The sheer girth of Salesforce.com is also a factor: the company has become an immensely complicated and multifaceted company, maybe too much so for a single conference. Regardless, Dreamforce reminds me of why I don’t see my favorite bands in a coliseum setting: The volume needed to fill a coliseum washes out the undertones and overtones that make music a rich and complex listening experience, instead leaving the listener to sort through a lot of random, washed out noise.

INSIGHTS - Microsoft Hones Its Enterprise Message

Thursday, Oct 30, 2014

BLOGPOST: There’s always a lot to say about Microsoft, and, like any big company, it’s usually a mix of good or bad. Having spent two days last week at the Microsoft Dynamics analyst event, I think that when it comes to the enterprise, most of what there is to say about Microsoft isn’t just good: Microsoft’s enterprise story just gets better and better, and while there are holes and issues abounding, the old maxim that Microsoft eventually gets it right was very much in evidence last week (with one notable, and important exception).

Women of the Supply Chain: Responsibility, Collaboration and Bathroom Lines

Tuesday, Nov 18, 2014

BLOGPOST: Hanging out with Kinaxis, the relatively small and always interesting supply chain vendor from Ottawa, Canada, never fails to be an eye-opening experience. It’s not just that I get to meet with a vendor and a loyal cadre of customers who are collectively pushing the envelope on all things supply chain, it’s that sometimes they’re pushing an envelope I hadn’t seen before in my peregrinations in the supply chain world. This year’s Kinexions user conference was no different. What I heard from Kinaxis about taking Rapid Response, its in-memory supply chain planning product, further into the realm of collaboration by pushing users to self-identify their areas of responsibility represented an excellent strategic direction on the part of Kinaxis

MOBILE - Net Neutrality – Confusion, Content, and the Meaning of Free

Tuesday, Dec 2, 2014

PODCAST: There is perhaps no contemporary issue at the intersection of technology and public policy that is more contentious and conflicted than net neutrality. The issue itself has probably accounted for its own increase in Internet traffic over the last couple of years as opinions, jeremiads, official proclamations, and even HBO’s John Oliver, have weighed in on the issue.

MOBILE - Windows Phone Looks Doomed: Does this Mean Trouble for Windows 10?

Wednesday, Dec 10, 2014

BLOGPOST: I think it’s pretty fair to say that counting Microsoft out in a market it has made a commitment to is a classic rookie mistake that serves as the epitaph for too many forgotten companies. If at first you don’t succeed, try try again is a time-honored mantra in Redmond. And it’s pretty evident that Windows Phone is one of those areas where Microsoft has made big commitments – including but hardly limited to its $7.2 billion purchase of Nokia’s phone business – and where the company is on the record as committed to try try again.

BIG DATA - Are We Robots? (Was: Are We Human?)

Monday, Dec 22, 2014

PODCAST: In mid-2012, in a blog titled Are We Human?, I described some of the benefits of using technologies such as CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, nuCAPTCHA and Are You A Human to help enterprises figure out whether their online application is dealing with an actual human user, or with another computer program. For example, they can help to: - Block “comment spam” on blogs and other social media sites - Protect the legitimacy of online polls and surveys - Protect self-service password reset pages from automated attacks - Prevent fraud and enforce business policies, such as blocking the automated ordering of large blocks of tickets to highly coveted events - Maximize online revenue, by fast-tracking legitimate human users before they drop off the site in frustration, before completing their transaction

CLOUD - The Data Center: An Enterprise’s Bridge to the Cloud

Tuesday, Dec 23, 2014

PODCAST: Today, enterprises are on a journey toward greater business agility and IT efficiency, and the pressure is on the office of the CIO to provide more capacity for less cost. CIOs are tasked with leveraging a commodity IT platform that also needs to be agile and exploited for business value. As such, enterprises are shifting compute and application resources from a dedicated model to a cloud-based, pay-per-use model at rapid rates, with forecasts predicting the cloud services market to attain a 24.8 percent CAGR through 2018.

S/4 HANA: It’s not R/3, and it’s not 1992 either (part II)

Friday, Feb 13, 2015

BLOGPOST: So, smooth sailing for S/4 HANA?– Not likely, certainly nothing like the good old days when R/3 was the biggest and the baddest modern, client/server, enterprise software product on the market, marauding through the global economy like a rum-soaked buccaneer.

Scott Galloway on The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook & Google

Wednesday, Apr 22, 2015

BLOGPOST: Future of Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook

Node to Self: Get Ready for Asynchronous Programming - Part I

Wednesday, Apr 22, 2015

BLOGPOST: Node.js introduction

Node to Self: Get Ready for Asynchronous Programming - Part II

Thursday, Apr 30, 2015

BLOGPOST: Installing and configuring Node.js and NPM.

Node to Self: Get Ready for Asynchronous Programming - Part III

Friday, May 8, 2015

BLOGPOST: mongoDB Installation & Configuration

Node to Self: Get Ready for Asynchronous Programming - Part IIII

Thursday, May 28, 2015

BLOGPOST: Connect node.js to mongoDB

Cloud and WebHosting

Wednesday, Mar 23, 2016

BLOGPOST: This blog post covers a point of view on web hosting versus cloud hosted solution.

Analyzing Security Concerns with Cloud Computing and Discovering Solutions

Wednesday, Mar 23, 2016

BLOGPOST: Despite many known benefits of cloud computing services, like reduction of significant costs, increased productivity, scalability, agility etc, many companies shy away from adopting computing services on the cloud. The reason is many security threats that come up with cloud computing. However, many businesses fail to realize that the security concerns with cloud computing can be effectively addressed to successfully wipe off any data breach and abrupt obstacles to their business operations. This blog post analyzes these security threats and its solutions.

Building High Performance Big Data and Analytics Systems

Friday, Apr 22, 2016

BLOGPOST: Big Data and Analytics systems are fast emerging as one of the critical system in an organization’s IT environment. But with such huge amount of data, comes performance challenges. If Big Data systems cannot be used to make or forecast critical business decisions, or provide the insights into business values, hidden under huge amount of data, at the right time, then these systems lose their relevance. This paper talks about some of the critical performance considerations, in a technology agnostic way. It talks about some techniques or guidelines, which can be used, during different phases of a big data system (i.e. data extraction, data cleansing, processing, storage as well as presentation). This should act as generic guidelines, which can be used by any Big Data professional to ensure that the final system meets the performance requirements of the system.

Containers on the Ranch

Friday, Jun 10, 2016

BLOGPOST: The advantage of containers is well known for a long period of time, with Docker emerging as a de-facto standard for containerization. It is being readily adopted by both the developer and the IT community as a viable deployment option, both on- premise as well as on the cloud. However there is a need to have a complete container management solution be able to deploy and manage these in production. This post looks at a promising open source offering called Rancher in this regard and sees how it does against some of the core architecture principles.

DevOps: Infrastructure Configuration Management using Ansible

Tuesday, Jun 21, 2016

BLOGPOST: In October 2015 Redhat signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible. Since then this tool has generated lot of interest among practitioners of DevOps. This article provides a basic overview of infra configuration management and how to get started with Ansible.

Cloud Vendor lock-in avoidance with OneOps

Tuesday, Jul 5, 2016

BLOGPOST: This article introduces a vendor neutral solution to application lifecycle management and orchestration across multiple cloud platforms.

On Demand Virtualization: Automated Provisioning of Multiple VMs on Azure Cloud

Monday, Jul 18, 2016

BLOGPOST: On-demand one-click environment provisioning is gaining lot of traction these days. So what is on-demand virtualization, why is it relevant to DevOps and how it can be enabled on Azure; these are some of things the that we discuss in this article.

Cloud Native Orchestration with Docker v1.12 Swarm Mode

Thursday, Jul 28, 2016

BLOGPOST: Docker recently came out with a release candidate version 1.12, that has really got most of us excited in terms of ease with which a cluster can now be setup with the new “Swarm Mode”, apart from some of the other features. This article explores some of the new features and puts some of these to a test.

Find Out More About Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Sunday, Aug 14, 2016

BLOGPOST: This blog post introduces hybrid cloud computing and provides insights on building your Hybrid Cloud Strategy.

Pitfalls of a “Big Data” project and a simple way to overcome it.

Tuesday, Aug 30, 2016

BLOGPOST: The data is ‘Big’, the market is booming, ROI is excellent and the “things” landscape is heating up. There are a lot of platforms and services available which enables quick turnaround for deploying Big Data infrastructure or platforms. Companies want to invest more to figure out that whether the data they have stored over years in databases/generate daily can be monetized using data mining / analytics. Currently every company small or big wants to do “something” with ‘Big Data’, often projects are in a jeopardy as • the problem statements is not comprehended well enough • hypothesis for the ‘value’ generated is not evaluated enough • data by itself is not ‘Big’ enough • there are other unknown conditions In this post we will discuss the end-to-end problems that are comprehended in a data science/analytics projects both architecturally and as-is, we would also attempt to engineer a process/workflow which would help to determine the viability/need of a Big Data system given the problem statement.

Architecting Application Deployment with Containers

Friday, Sep 2, 2016

BLOGPOST: This blog describes one exercise to shift an application from an On-Premise implementation to a container based solution along with monitoring and management tools that can work on both AWS and Azure frameworks without major changes

Data Center Total Cost of Ownership: Buyer Beware! Memory Errors Add Up

Sunday, Sep 11, 2016

BLOGPOST: This blog post talks about cost of data center ownership and highlights the importance of focusing on memory related errors and its associated considerations.

Windows Server Containers are here !!

Thursday, Oct 13, 2016

BLOGPOST: This blog post talks about the much awaited Windows Server Containers that have are now available with the release of Windows Server 2016 and takes a brief look at some of the key aspects related to Windows Containers

Using Cloud and IOT to Grow the Perfect Garden

Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016

BLOGPOST: Description of the Taiga Tower technology which uses cloud and IoT.

Moving To The Cloud? Ask The Tough Questions

Thursday, Nov 3, 2016

BLOGPOST: Blog post by Jordan Jacobs where he talks of the key CIO questions to ask when moving to the cloud and presents the SingleHop CIO infographic which covers the same.

Sentiment analysis of social media data using Big Data Processing Techniques

Thursday, Nov 24, 2016

BLOGPOST: Nowadays, online social media have become the important platform across the globe to share information. People prefer online social media as it is easy to share their opinions on a daily basis hence sentiment analysis is of utmost importance wherein people rely on the opinions shared online. With this extensive growth in the usage of online social media, huge amount of social data is generated. How to process this large set of data efficiently, effectively and in a manner suitable for the user is an important research topic. This blog post introduces sentiment analysis and Hadoop Ecosystem. Then focuses on how Hadoop Eco-system proves to be an efficient tool in sentiment analysis.

Top five trends for cloud computing in 2017

Sunday, Dec 4, 2016

BLOGPOST: The article focuses on five key developments that will shape up the cloud computing market in 2017. Cloud adoption will accelerate faster as enterprises are scrambling to adopt a scalable and cost-effective infrastructure to store and process a large amount of data. Big data and IoT would be a significant part of this growth. The five trends will impact a large number of organizations and will pave the way to cloud-based data-driven culture globally.

Assessing effectiveness of Ansible

Wednesday, Dec 14, 2016

BLOGPOST: Ansible is relatively new configuration management tool which gained popularity after its acquisition by Redhat. This blog post presents a POV on this tool, which is outcome of an evaluation of different features desirable in an infra configuration management tool that impact their effectiveness to automate the management of infrastructure.

2 Compelling Reasons Why Innovative Organisations are including Big Data Capabilities in their 5-Year Strategic Plans

Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017

BLOGPOST: This is a blog post by Hoani Barker - which covers the significance Big Data is playing in the long term strategic plans for most innovative organizations

The true location cloud computing

Monday, Mar 13, 2017

BLOGPOST: The cloud concept is meant to be ethereal, floating, that we don’t need to worry about it. It has worked! However, cloud computing is very real, which means it has a real physical presence and cost. The article discusses these details.

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