• BrandPost: Breaking through I/O Bottlenecks with Cumulus Data Acceleration

    For years, techies have wrestled with persistent storage I/O challenges. While data-processing power has raced forward at Moore’s Law speed, storage I/O capabilities have often lagged behind, creating a bottleneck that slows time to insight. This problem has made I/O performance a top technical concern for those running data-intensive workflows.Today, a team has found a solution to this long-running storage I/O problem. That solution is the Dell Data Accelerator, incorporating technologie
  • 5 highest-paying IT jobs for every stage of your career

    5 top-paying IT jobs for every stage of your tech careerImage by Thinkstock / IDGDemand for highly skilled IT workers isn't slowing down. Research and staffing firm Upp reports that the unemployment rate for IT careers is hovering under 4 percent in every U.S. state, well below unemployment rates for other industries and the overall unemployment rate.To read this article in full, please click here
  • IDG Contributor Network: The hard road of digital transformation in the public sector

    Stop for a second and think about one memorable example of a digital transformation. Which ones leap to your mind? It might be AirBnB, or perhaps it is Uber? The odds are that the example you’ve thought of is about a commercial startup that has created digital disruption and damaged or in some cases even sunk traditional incumbents. But they are few and far between, and the reality is that we can’t all be digital superheroes transforming our respective industries single handedly. An
  • IDG Contributor Network: A front-row seat to transforming the future

    1859 was an important year in the oil industry.  Edwin Drake and George Bissell introduced the first successful oil drilling rig on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. It was also the year that Jean-Joseph Étienne Lenoir began producing his single-cylinder two-stroke internal combustion engine.  While Lenoir’s original engine burned a mixture of coal gas, it set the stage for development of a gasoline powered engine in the years to come.What do the first oil rig
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  • IDG Contributor Network: Always Connected PC: Still not a viable option for the enterprise

    Qualcomm, best known for cellular modems and ARM-based smartphone processors, has been making a push into the PC space. Always Connected PCs (ACPCs) have been available for much of the year, though 2-in-1s built around the company’s first processor designed specifically for PCs are just now coming to market.Are they worthy of your consideration? Not from what I’ve seen thus far. Unfortunately, what really sets the system apart is not the advertised all-day battery life or continuous
  • IDG Contributor Network: Does your AI plan account for safety?

    One thing I’ve learned in the last several years is that, just like other high-profile company initiatives, AI isn’t immune from corporate politics. The most prevalent example of this is people battling over AI ownership, a topic I covered in "The internal disruption of AI."But ownership isn’t the only hot potato being tossed between teams who recognize the potential of AI—and the pitfalls. I’m currently advising an after-market automobile products supplier on reva
  • Top 12 BI tools of 2019

    With more and more data at our fingertips, it’s getting harder to focus on the information relevant to our problems and present it in an actionable way. That’s what business intelligence is all about.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  • The high returns of low-code development tools

    As organizations forge ahead with digital transformation efforts and many look to speed up the delivery of new applications and services, low-code development tools are becoming increasingly important IT components.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
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