In Alex Benik’s latest “Smart People on Ice” segment he sits down with JR Rivers and Nolan Leake, the co-founders of Cumulus Networks. In the video, R…
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Smart People on Ice: Raj Patel, Part Two–Powering Pinterest
In the second half of Alex Benik’s “Smart People on Ice” interview with Raj Patel, Raj gives a behind-the-scenes look at technology powering Pinterest…
Snapchat for the Enterprise
Two of the biggest trends in corporate IT today are BYOD—the “bring your own device” preference of employees who want to use their own phones and tabl…
Thirteen Year-Old Blog Post Presages Datacenter Innovations
In April 2001, Battery published this blog post about the dawning age of scale-out computing and huge datacenters. This was pre-VMWare and pre-Amazon …
Smart People on Ice: Raj Patel of Pinterest Talks Being a Perpetual Student of Technology
In this week’s “Smart People on Ice” video, host Alex Benik sits down with Raj Patel, the head of cloud engineering at Pinterest to discuss his …
DevOps isn’t just for unicorns: A recap of the DevOps Enterprise conference
Early adopters of DevOps, such as Etsy and Netflix, have often been called ‘unicorns.’ However, the development methodology’s ability to speed up appl…
A Silver Lining in the JP Morgan Security Breach?
The JPMorgan Chase data breach rocked headlines early this month as the latest in a series of security breaches hitting nearly a dozen financial compa…
The Second Coming of Big Data
It was data, data and more data at the DataWeek Conference & Expo held Sept. 16-17 in San Francisco. Battery’s Roger Lee participated in a p…
Why Did Docker Catch On So Quickly, and Why Is It Interesting?
Docker has rapidly become “the new thing” for computing in 2014. Why did that happen so quickly, and how has a Linux application container become so p…
Breach Detection is Your New Must-Have, Cyber Security Tool
Authors’ Note: Following the original publication of our post about breach detection on Sept. 6, Home Depot confirmed that hackers had broken in…