development

We Have Tons of Data—Can We Learn Anything from It?It is no secret that we produce more data than ever before. Most organizations understand they need to act on this data, but they struggle with the sheer volume. Brian Enochson discusses ways to manage the data avalanche so that you can gain long-term benefits.
Three Tough Decisions Developers FaceSoftware development is still a fairly young profession. As technology continues to change, so does the act of development. Here is some insight into the difficulty presented by an everchanging profession.
Agile Enables Google Developers to Find Success in FailurePatrick Copeland, senior engineering director at Google, explains how the company uses their own version of agile-based methodologies to drive their teams to be more creative and unafraid to fail. From the speed of delivery to the quality of the finished product, agile is working at Google.
What Can You Do with Big Data?

Big data doesn’t refer to high fives or towering twelves. It refers to lots of data. The primary goal of handling big data is to capture all the data available in a given computing scenario and then analyze it to find identifiable business, behavior, or other patterns.

VMware Updates vCloud Suite While Cisco Eyes a Potential RivalVirtualization software giant VMware, Inc. made news this week with an update to the company’s vCloud Suite 5.1 while two top executives at VMware and Cisco made public the companies’ tenuously friendly relationship.
How Software Leans toward Agility and ExperimentationAgility depends on learning and experimentation. You make decisions, execute, and then re-evaluate. Steve Berczuk explores why software development is a natural medium for experimentation and agility, because, in a physical sense, software is relatively easy to manipulate.
The Top Five UX Pet Peeves We Love to HateThe common themes underlying many user experience problems boil down to forcing users to do work that the software should have done for them or assuming that software developers know better than users what they want or need. Rick Scott details his top five user experience pet peeves.
New Encryption App Protects Both the Good—and Bad—GuysWith new advancements in technology come the fears of wondering what purposes they'll be used for. Now that full-scale phone call and data encryption are available for everyone, can we really be certain we're not arming the wrong people with this much protection?