Many of today’s hottest new enterprise technologies are centered around free, “open-source” technology. As a result, many big companies—from financial…
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Radical Approaches to the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage
Every time a major security breach strikes, people are outraged by what they feel is the negligence and carelessness of the company responsible. “How …
Swipe Right For A Cloud Instance: How To Build Successful Software In A Low-Commitment World
In cities from San Francisco to New York, and Houston to Atlanta for that matter, we hear the buzz of easy, quick lifestyle choices these days. Just h…
How to Build a Business-Focused ‘Cloud-Commerce’ Marketplace for the Less-Sexy Economy
For consumers, huge new internet marketplaces have upended industries ranging from taxis (Uber) to hotels (Airbnb) and even some types of consumer loa…
Enterprise-IT Predictions for 2018: More Cloudy Skies, AI-Powered Chatbots and (Finally!) More IPOs
Many of us will remember 2017 for big, global events—huge hurricanes, continuing wars and, of course, the ascension of a certain orange-haired, former…
Is Your Data Lake Like the Library of Babel?
In 1941, renowned Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges published a short story entitled “The Library of Babel.” The story tells the tale of a universe c…
What Washing Dishes, Driving a Truck, and Working in a Cemetery Taught Me About the Power of “Blue-Collar” Software
These days, I work as a venture capitalist in a glass-walled office and wear dress shirts to work. But it wasn’t so long ago that I wore an orange neo…
Forget the Firewall: Better Application Security Could Have Prevented the Equifax Breach
Security breaches at big companies and government agencies, including the recent disaster at Equifax, continue to dominate the headlines. One importan…
The Haves And Have-Nots In Cybersecurity: How Your Company Can Level The Playing Field
We all know about the income-inequality debate in America, and the controversy about too much wealth being held by the “one percent”. But did you know…
Getting Around “Moore’s Wall”: Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi Strives to Make AI More Accessible to the Fortune 2000
Today Databricks*, a high-profile provider of technology fueling artificial-intelligence and data-analysis breakthroughs at big companies, announced i…
Back to the Future–Putting the Silicon Back in Silicon Valley
It may be true that software is “eating the world”, and every company on the planet is going digital. But in many ways, hardware is now moving back in…