Category: Tech Insight

LISP programming language
Tech Time Warp: John McCarthy introduces LISP

Tech Time Warp: John McCarthy introduces LISP

Ask Alexa who coined the term “artificial intelligence,” and she’ll tell you John McCarthy. As a computer pioneer, John McCarthy provided the world with much more than a name for AI. He also developed the LISP programming language, one of...

/ April 20, 2018
Cloud 5: Why edge computing matters, plenty of cloud growth says Gartner

Cloud 5: Why edge computing matters, plenty of cloud growth says Gartner

Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

/ April 20, 2018
containers
IT service providers are falling behind the container curve

IT service providers are falling behind the container curve

IT vendors and many of their IT services provider partners are generally slow to recognize uncomfortable truths. IT vendors tend to develop and allocate the resources they make available to IT services partners based on the sales goals they create...

/ April 19, 2018
DoD won’t budge on winner-take-all cloud contract stance

DoD won’t budge on winner-take-all cloud contract stance

In March, the Department of Defense set in motion a high-stakes, winner-take-all battle for its cloud contract. Reports suggest that the agreement could last a decade and be worth close to $10 billion dollars. Here’s the thing though, the cloud...

/ April 19, 2018
GDPR compliance
Confidence in ability to meet GDPR mandates rides high

Confidence in ability to meet GDPR mandates rides high

Right about now inquiries from customers concerned about their ability to comply with the General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) that is set to implemented by the European Union on May 25 should be skyrocketing. But as is often the case, most...

/ April 17, 2018
intent-based networking
Alex Hoff: The advantages of intent-based networking

Alex Hoff: The advantages of intent-based networking

Intent-based networking makes it possible to manage a network simply by identifying your intent—in other words, what you want to happen. Configure guest Wi-Fi. Set up VoIP phones in Branch 3 office. Software then figures out the best way to...

/ April 16, 2018
Java
Tech Time Warp: Java gets its start

Tech Time Warp: Java gets its start

The software that runs millions of smartphones and made the Internet more functional celebrates an anniversary this week. On April 8, 1991, James Gosling and a Sun Microsystems development team—then known as the “Green” development team, working on a project...

/ April 13, 2018
Cloud 5: Microsoft battles Slack, Amazon against the world

Cloud 5: Microsoft battles Slack, Amazon against the world

Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

/ April 13, 2018
IT services
IT services deals dipped sharply in 2017

IT services deals dipped sharply in 2017

Both the number of IT services deals and their total contract value (TCV) declined significantly in 2017. A new report from the market research firm GlobalData says the 4,099 IT services contracts announced in 2017 represent a 26-percent decline over...

/ April 12, 2018
IBM introduces skinny mainframe for cloud age

IBM introduces skinny mainframe for cloud age

The mainframe has been a mainstay of enterprise computing for decades, and IBM has dominated the category, but what place does it have in the age of the cloud? Surprisingly, the oldest bit of computing technology continues to live a...

/ April 11, 2018