IT strategy and trend

  • The Benefits of Adopting a Low-Code/No-Code Development Platform

    Low-code/no-code development platforms represent yet another improvement in speeding up time-to-value on creating both internal and external applications, says Christian Kelly, a managing director at business and IT advisory firm Accenture.

    While low-code/no-code development platforms are designed for speed and ease of use, they still require citizen developers to have a basic understanding of application design concepts.

  • Azure focuses on feature abundance and integrations to become the all-inclusive cloud experience

    It offers many features in the data and analytics space, ranging from Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions for data and big data management and analytics, to multiple AI and machine learning offerings, to specialized Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions such as Azure Purview,which is a unified data governance solution that helps users manage and govern their on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS data.

  • Beyond the Data Warehouse: What Are the Repository Options Today?

    With the rise of unstructured big data, which now comprises roughly 80% of all enterprise data under management, a new wave of data repositories has come into use that don’t always use a data warehouse.

    Data lakes are different. Their purpose is to store, secure and avail access to aggregated combinations of structured and unstructured data that are tailored to a particular area of the business.

  • The case for a $2 trillion addressable public cloud market

    Core to the cloud total addressable market (TAM) analysis are driving factors such as workload adoption, workload spend, and workload expansion, which we discussed and validated with a number of practitioners and end users in the field.

    We ran three scenarios and believe that the one we consider most likely will result in a $2 trillion public cloud market in the foreseeable future (a 10–20-year timeframe)

  • IoT adoption remains strong in the Asia-Pacific region as organizations broaden usage

    The Asia-Pacific region has long been a strong manufacturing base and the sector continues to be a strong adopter of the Internet of Things (IoT). But as the latest Microsoft IoT Signals report shows, IoT is now much more widely adopted across verticals, and across the globe, with smart spaces—a key focus for many markets in the Asia-Pacific region—becoming one of the leading application areas.

  • Migrating To Kubernetes? Embrace Infrastructure As Code As Well

    Two of the most talked-about topics in the world of software development right now are Kubernetes and infrastructure as code (IaC).

    In other words, as companies adopt new modern infrastructures (e.g., Kubernetes), novel security challenges arise that are best addressed by modern processes (e.g., DevSecOps).

  • Five risks of moving your database to the cloud

    This article discusses some of the risks customers may unwittingly encounter when moving their database to a database as a service (DBaaS) in the cloud, especially when the DBaaS leverages open source database software such as Apache Cassandra, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, or Redis

  • Was Your Information Swimming Naked During The Pandemic?

    Similarly, 92% agreed that “Due to drastic changes in customer behavior or other factors during the pandemic, reliable real-time data became even more important for business decisions.”

    95% of respondents, for example, agreed that “Making decisions based on accurate, timely analytics and insights has become as important as having accurate transactional data in my organization.”