Employers in Silicon Valley and beyond are used to fighting the talent war – especially for qualified engineers. Stock options, free food and dog-friendly environments have become the norm. Attractive hiring packages are a must. Retention efforts are aggressive – think of Google’s $150 million payout to retain two top product managers. The talent war ...

Many of the technologies that we rely on in business today reached their current penetrations levels through a hockey stick adoption curve—starting slowly, growing steadily for some time, and then rapidly accelerating due to a combination of technology advancements, IT capacity, and customer demand.  The rise of mobile phones followed this pattern, with measured growth ...

All too often the technology strategies for publishers have focused on optimizing one to two networks for sharing content with their users while completely neglecting other viable channels. Typically the ‘end-to-end strategy’ goes by the wayside or is neglected until some imaginary later date (or never). The problem with a single-tier or even two-tiered business approach is ...

2012 could easily be referred to as the year of the software glitch. While the Royal Bank Of Scotland (RBS) and Knight Capital Group are top of mind, they were certainly not the only victims of notable glitches. In fact, they were kept in good company throughout the year with major failures at United Airlines, ...

Data has always been important in business. However, the last few decades have seen an explosion in data unlike anything ever previously encountered. Not only do businesses have vastly more information to deal with, but they need that data to be available non-stop, at any time. Enterprises are now re-thinking not only their approach to ...

Several of us enjoy an eclectic mix of music. I, for instance, like to start my day with soothing classical music on most weekdays. But it’s jazz that helps me unwind and relax on the evenings I get home early. Sunday afternoons are when you can tune in to the oldies if you join me ...

Leaving your 9 – 5 job to work from home is like jumping out of the fry pan into the fire. You make the move while hoping for some relief like getting rid of the hectic routines and to work for yourself so that you can earn more by working less, but you end up ...

According to a 2012 Ponemon Institute study, more than 60 percent of enterprise users store business confidential data in Dropbox. That is an extremely frightening statistic to any IT department. While services like Dropbox, Google Drive and others provide workers tremendous productivity benefits, they still lack many controls designed to keep corporate data secure and ...

When Red Hat announced $1 billion in annual revenue earlier this year, I was cheering for a couple of reasons. First, after having spent six great years at Red Hat championing the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, I was thrilled for my many former colleagues. But more importantly, I was cheering because the perfect ...

For companies that are in dire need of software engineers, trying to find talent can be like dousing a four-alarm fire—they need top developers, and they need them now. Recent statistics underscore this sense of urgency. Dice.com, for example, lists about 7,000 available software engineer jobs on any given day, while a survey by Nova ...