How to use Azure Cosmos DB in .Net Azure Cosmos DB is an easy-to-use, scalable, NoSQL database available in Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Cosmos DB is hosted on SSDs and hence data storage and retrieval is very fast. This database service also supports multiple data models including document, key-value, graph, and columnar, so can be leveraged […]
6 hidden bottlenecks in cloud data migration Moving terabytes or even petabytes of data to the cloud is a daunting task. But it is important to look beyond the number of bytes. You probably know that your applications are going to behave differently when accessed in the cloud, that cost structures will be different (hopefully […]
IDG Contributor Network: 3 requirements of modern archive for massive unstructured data Perhaps the least understood component of secondary storage strategy, archive has become a necessity for modern digital enterprises with petabytes of data and billions of files. So, what exactly is archive, and why is it so important? Archiving data involves moving data that […]
21 hot programming trends—and 21 going cold Programmers love to sneer at the world of fashion where trends blow through like breezes. Skirt lengths rise and fall, pigments come and go, ties get fatter, then thinner. But in the world of technology, rigor, science, math, and precision rule over fad. That’s not to say programming […]
IDG Contributor Network: Why data democratization is crucial to your business In the Information Age, the power of data has been mostly kept in the hands of a few data analysts with the skills and understanding necessary to properly organize, crunch, and interpret the data for their organization. This approach was born out of necessity—most […]
Google Cloud tutorial: Get started with Google Cloud When people think of the word Google, they think about search and the immense computational infrastructure that converts your words into a list of websites that probably have exactly what you’re looking to find. It took Google years to hire the engineers, design the custom computers, and […]
IDG Contributor Network: Data governance 2.0 At Bristol-Myers Squibb, I have the privilege of working for a company singularly focused on our mission to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. Accurate, high quality, and trustworthy data is central to our work in R&D, manufacturing, sales and marketing, and […]
Technology of the Year 2018: The best hardware, software, and cloud services Was 2017 the year that every product under the sun was marketed as being cognitive, having machine learning, or being artificially intelligent? Well, yes. But don’t hate all of them. In many cases, machine learning actually did improve the functionality of products, sometimes […]
InfoWorld’s 2018 Technology of the Year Award winners The Open Compute Project’s open hardware standards have done much to push forward the development of cloud-scale hardware. By sharing designs for connectors, racks, servers, switches, and storage hardware, the OCP has defined a new generation of data center technologies and made them widely available – and […]
IDG Contributor Network: Cloud contracts: 5 must-have elements The cloud is growing at an annual rate of 22 percent and is projected to come in at $178 billion in 2018, according to Forrester Research. There is no question: The cloud is where companies are investing heavily. One topic we rarely hear about is the legal […]
One cloud accounting dilemma will soon be fixed You know cloud computing is here to stay when the accountants take notice. The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Emerging Issues Task Force plans to propose new rules for how to deal with cloud computing service costs. The updated guidance means that a customer under contract with a […]
IDG Contributor Network: What IT needs to know about cloud economics: costs Cloud computing sometimes defies economic analysis. The public cloud, in particular, is associated with abundance rather than scarcity, one of the key concepts of economics. But while the cloud creates efficiencies, it does not eliminate constraints or the need to choose between competing […]
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