Have you ever looked up at the sky on a clear, starry night? Looking at all those specs of light billions of light years away? There are actually more existing pieces of digital information than stars in the universe.
The statistics on big data and its rapid accumulation are staggering (see...
When thinking about doing business in the cloud, security is always top of mind. As cloud technology matures and its adoption becomes more mainstream, security concerns about cloud-based software and data are shifting from shrill panic to practical embrace. When working through security issues in any...
Recently, Progress sponsored HackTECH, one of the largest hackathons on the west coast, held in Santa Monica, CA. The event drew more than 1200 students from CalTech, UCLA, USC, Harvey-Mudd College, Pomona College, UCSD, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, UPenn, and other...
A few weeks back a colleague and I were driving through Seattle, and we began to debate the reach of ODBC as a key data standard. His perspective was that ODBC was really a C/C++ technology, and that as people have largely moved to other programming languages, the importance of ODBC has declined as...
Are you feeling the pressure to move to the cloud? Or have you already taken the plunge? More and more companies are creating cloud-based applications. What’s motivating them? Simply put: competition.
I am sure you are seeing this in your own industry--customers, businesses...