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One meme I repeat often is “there is always more than one solution.” I also often write about how enterprises…

Secure Sockets Layer—SSL for short—is a standard security protocol that is used to encrypt communications between a web server and…

In past Forrester/InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards competitions, we had named themes to align entries and winners to the current needs…

Built with ambitions of powering the WebAssembly world, an embeddable runtime for the WebAssembly (aka Wasm) binary format is in…

The Eclipse Foundation now has received all Java EE (Enterprise Edition) reference implementation components from Oracle, as part of the…

A big challenge for any development organization managing technical debt, the pile of work created from past decisions in software…

Each year, InfoWorld’s Bossies (Best of Open Source Software awards) recognize the best open source software for businesses and professional…

You are setting up a quick report around sales for the year, and it needs to use three separate databases.…

For most companies, multicloud and hybrid cloud environments aren’t a choice. They’re just what happens as those companies evolve. So…

“MySQL done better” is one way to describe MariaDB. It’s a fork of that popular open source database project, launched…

Today, there are many data sources—such at IoT devices, user interaction events from mobile applications, financial service transactions, and health…

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit—or more simply CNTK—is the deep learning toolkit that underlies the AI capabilities of Microsoft’s services including Skype,…

Wouldn’t it be nice to write blockchain-based decentralized applications (dapps) without having to constantly follow the performance and scaling news…

CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on top of a transactional and consistent key-value store. It is designed to…

A Cloud Native Computing Foundation project alongside Kubernetes and Istio, Prometheus was likewise built for working with distributed applications in…