Year: 2015

  • IT Innovation Pressures Grow for CIOs

    IT Innovation Pressures Grow for CIOs

    More than half of business executives recently surveyed said the organization rates as “poor” or it is “just making progress” with innovation in IT. These days, virtually no corner of the enterprise remains untouched by IT. From customer-facing Websites and brick-and-mortar storefronts to mobile apps and clouds, IT—and how well an organization puts it to…

  • Apache Spark: 3 Promising Use-Cases

    Apache Spark: 3 Promising Use-Cases

    Spark is the shiny new thing in big data, but how will it stand out? Here’s a look at “fog computing,” cloud computing, and streaming data-analysis scenarios. by James Kobielus To survive the competitive struggles, every fresh technological innovation must find clear use-cases in the marketplace. There must be some specific itch that the new…