Christine Taylor

The term “Shadow IT” screams spy stories: secret agents chasing each other through the streets of Munich and mysterious organizations disrupting global data flows. Well, the second image may be true. But it’s not the meaning behind Shadow IT, which refers to computing hardware and software that are outside the bounds of IT control or […]

Containers are virtualized but not by hypervisors. They can be deployed to a VM but are not VMs. Both containers and VMs use server/host OS as the bottom two layers of the stack. In VM environments, the next level is the hypervisor followed by VMs containing guest OS, libraries (div/lib in Linux), and applications. A […]

Machine learning vs. deep learning isn’t exactly a boxing knockout – deep learning is a subset of machine learning, and both are subsets of artificial intelligence (AI). However, there is a lot of confusion in the marketplace around the definitions and use cases of machine learning and deep learning, so let’s clear up the confusion. […]

Artificial intelligence and business, it seems, is a marriage that is all but inevitable. Artificial intelligence is intelligence built into computing systems, or as MIT professor Marvin Minsky put it, “the science of making machines do those things that would be considered intelligent if they were done by people.” In sum, this concept of extending […]

Artificial intelligence and logistics is the perfect union for businesses seeking a competitive edge – and a necessary combination for companies hoping to compete in the future. Let’s go inside the technology of AI and logistics. First, supply chain management, or SCM, is the process of overseeing the shipping process. Logistics is the portion of […]

Machine learning vs. deep learning isn’t exactly a boxing knockout – deep learning is a subset of machine learning, and both are subsets of artificial intelligence (AI). However, there is a lot of confusion in the marketplace around the definitions and use cases of machine learning and deep learning, so let’s clear up the confusion. […]

Big data architecture is the foundation for big data analytics. Think of big data architecture as an architectural blueprint of a large campus or office building. Architects begin by understanding the goals and objectives of the building project, and the advantages and limitations of different approaches. It’s not an easy task, but it’s perfectly doable […]

Dealing with big data is a big challenge. Big data is big because of sheer volume, because of the velocity of creation, and because of the huge variety of unstructured data types. One of its biggest challenges is testing unstructured data for the software industry’s big data applications. Traditional big data testing for relational database […]

A service level agreement (SLA) is a technical services performance contract. SLAs can be internal between an in-house IT team and end-users, or can be external between IT and service providers such as cloud computing vendors. Formal and detailed SLAs are particularly important with cloud computing providers, since these infrastructures are large scale and can […]

Cloud computing governance and compliance is critically important for a key reason: cloud computing impacts so many aspects of our business and personal lives. As consumers, we think nothing of connecting to Dropbox or using an online graphics program. As business people, we use cloud computing applications like Salesforce for CRMs, MS Office 365 for […]