Mobile is the future. The numbers do not lie. The PC’s death is not a Mark Twain situation. While there are some who like to engage in semantic debates over whether or not a tablet/iPad is really a variety… Continue reading →

Hadoop is possibly one of the hottest technologies in existence right now, and despite this fact a lot of people (even those knowledgeable about IT) trip up a bit when defining it.Calling it a “big data” solution is accurate but… Continue reading →

In a previous blog, we discussed the rigid thinking that defines much of traditional IT. The ITIL was explored as an example of where this thinking may come from, though the phenomenon is not specific to just organizations that have… Continue reading →

IT, we can argue, has been given poor treatment in popular culture. Is it rigid, faceless, bureaucratic, and colorless as it has been depicted in so many media sources? Unfortunately we will have to say "yes" and "no."“No,” because a… Continue reading →

NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, and the rest of this rapidly growing field are some of the latest buzz-worthy technologies. Far past the experimental stage, it is almost safe to say that if you used the internet… Continue reading →