Throughout history, philosophers, teachers and religious leaders have used stories and parables to help us understand intangible, often complex, concepts. One of my favorites is the Indian parable ...

In the age of cloud, traditional ROI-related questions are just the beginning. Server lifespan is irrelevant, and latency can make or break millions in revenue. Security has become a major item on ...

There is plenty of hype about how great the cloud is but no one is addressing the elephant in the room: How do you move an enterprise application to the cloud? It’s one thing if you have a ...

Larry Ellison's anti-cloud rant at the Churchill Club last week, now in circulation as a 5-minute YouTube clip, reminds me of the old parable of the blind men and the elephant.

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One way to expand is to go up the stack toward solutions, but Cloudera is clearly not Oracle. Instead, the road for Cloudera travels through its core data management, governance, and security stack.

It has been a slow transition, but Skype is finalizing its move away from a peer-to-peer system to a cloud-based one. When it was first created, the Skype network was built as a decentralized peer ...