Andy Patrizio

The date May 23rd marked 20 years since the Java programming language made its humble launch following a four-year development effort. In that time, the language gas grown, imploded, been declared dead almost as many times as the mainframe. It is now enjoying a renaissance under Oracle’s stewardship. Googling “Java is dead” brings back millions […]

You have to try pretty hard not to hear about containers these days. They are the new “it” technology, garnering incredible buzz on Twitter and on various online publications. Since they are often discussed in conjunction with virtualization, there is the potential for confusion or comparison, when in fact they are complimentary. The two are […]

When it comes to choosing a cloud provider, the Service Level Agreement could prove more vital than the hardware they have on the back end. The SLA is a legal promise of performance, availability and rights, yours and theirs, and should never be taken lightly. Despite their importance, some SLAs are shockingly short; just a […]

Cloud computing has been around for several years now, so people should be getting the hang of it and cloud deployments are a relatively straight-forward process, right? Well, not so much. Cloud deployments have a rather high failure rate, or at best can take a lot longer to deploy than expected. One survey from Gartner […]

If there’s a product or concept, there’s probably a buzzword around it. The latest term to rise out of the Big Data trend is “Data Lake,” which is more of a concept than a product. In essence, it might be your way to go from processing old data to real-time data analytics. A Data Lake […]

Business Intelligence (BI) software has had a bit of a struggle as of late. Although the concept has been around for decades, it’s been overshadowed by the shiny new thing, Big Data, which has its roots in BI but adds on much more. Part of the problem centers around the fact many people don’t even […]

A mobile device management (MDM) system is to enterprise tablets and smartphones what a management console is to servers and desktop/laptop clients. With an MDM, you control, manage and protect the data and configuration settings on end users’ mobile devices, preventing the installation of unauthorized apps, protecting data, and if necessary, wiping a lost device. […]

On the surface, Big Data as a Service seems like a natural evolution. Yet big questions surround its nascent growth. On-demand services are one of the big technological revolutions of the 21st century, attributable to the Internet revolution that made remote servers as close as the ones in your data center. It started with software […]

Getting firms to move to the cloud hasn’t been all that easy. Many companies have justifiable concerns and fears about moving their most vital non-human asset – data – outside their data center. While cloud providers have struggled to assuage those fears, they don’t seem to be getting through. A study by the Ponemon Institute […]

Nokia is still the dominant smartphone vendor worldwide, but the Android market has exploded in annual growth and is rapidly catching up with Nokia and the number two player, Apple. Canalys, a market research firm based in the U.K., said the global smartphone market grew by 64 percent annually, but Nokia saw its share fall […]