Two software businesses once known as leading examples of the NoSQL tech theme made the news over the last couple of weeks -- MapR & NewRelic. HPE announced they had purchased the intellectual assets of MapR on August 5th. The treasure enticing HPE? "...artificial intelligence and machine learnin...

 The following comments are based on a literal definition of the NoSQL acronym, "Not Only SQL". So readers are advised not to interpret my comments as an endorsement of "NoSQL databases" (MongoDB, DocumentDB, etc). A lot has been written over the last few months on the promise – or illusion of on...

With a publication date of December 29, 2014, Accenture released its annual High Performance Finance Study for 2014. The findings presented reinforce the notion of a changed decision-making hierarchy for IT systems and solutions within many enterprise businesses. In my opinion, anyone with an int...

Early versions of SaaS served from the Internet cloud looked a lot like time sharing applications. In other words, each and every web visitor looked like just another terminal on a remote server. The use of small form factor computing devices had not yet occurred, and the browser options for clie...