Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and intelligence—over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources and economies of scale.  Cloud computing gives you access to servers, storage, databases, and a broad set of application services over the internet. A cloud services provider owns and maintains the […]

Cloud adoption is growing. A big benefit to organizations is that operating in the cloud has smaller recurring expenses as compared to one big capital expenditure. The cloud can also make capacity planning easier since adding and removing capacity is much easier. But experts in cloud capacity planning say it’s crucial to take important steps to assure […]

Capacity planning is the process of determining the production capacity needed by an organization to meet changing demands for its products. IT capacity planning involves estimating the storage, computer hardware, software and connection infrastructure resources required over some future period of time. Capacity management is concerned about adding central processing units (CPUs), memory and storage to a physical or virtual server. This has been the […]

Blockchain technology is an entirely new way of documenting data on the internet. In fact, it’s sometimes referred to as The Internet 3.0. The idea behind blockchain technology is that is can provide enhanced digital processing power while being a more secure way to handle internet transactions in the wake of mushrooming cybercrimes. The information […]

Sensor and data fusion is a data analysis technique and research area that is growing rapidly because it provides a means for combining pieces of information coming from different sources or sensors. This generally results in a better overall system performance and can be seen in improved decision making, increased detection capabilities, improved reliability and […]

Hadoop provides a software framework for distributed storage and processing of big data. It’s a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitate using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. The base Hadoop framework is composed of the following modules: Hadoop Common – This contains libraries and utilities needed […]

Python programming is one of the most sought after skills in the technology sector – and no wonder considering Python is now the most widely used programming language in the world. Admired for its simplicity while maintaining high efficiency, Python can be used to develop different applications like web applications, graphic user interface based applications, software […]

Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. First released in 1991, Python’s technological evolution is nothing short of miraculous. Today, Python has distinct advantages over many of the 5,000 programming languages now available such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Swift, PHP and C#. One big advantage is that Python is relatively easy to use. The […]

DevSecOps is short for development, security and operations. It’s objective is to make everyone accountable for security with the focus on implementing security decisions and actions at the same scale and speed as development and operations decisions and actions. Another way of looking at it: DevSecOps is the philosophy of integrating security practices within the DevOps […]

Many believe there has never been a more exciting time to work with data. The data analytics industry is predicted to reach almost $78 billion by 2023, and by 2020, there will be an estimated 2.7 million jobs open for data analysts and data scientists. Data analysis organizes, interprets, structures and presents the data into useful information that provides context for the data. Data […]