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Is ‘Smart Lighting’ Right for You and Your Home? (Connected by TCP Review)

Controlling the lights in your home using a smartphone or tablet sounds like a novel idea, but is it really worth the investment to get "connected?" CIO.com's Al Sacco answers that question and more in this hands-on review of the Conne

11 Feb 2014 9 mins

Small and Medium Business Smartphones Wi-Fi

U.S. CIO Urges Feds to Fail Fast, Not Fail Big

Taking a page from the private sector, federal CIO Steve VanRoekel calls for a more agile, iterative approach to government IT projects.

11 Feb 2014 4 mins

Agile Development Government Government IT

Red Hat and Hortonworks Expand Strategic Big Data Alliance

The two partners are working to make it easier than ever to bring Hadoop into the enterprise with an open hybrid cloud model and improved customer support collaboration.

11 Feb 2014 4 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Linux

How Mobile Developers Can Win Customers’ Trust

Many of today's mobile and Web applications collect personal data. This makes plenty of users pause before downloading. To ease user's minds -- and to help developers demonstrate that they have legitimate reasons for collecting that informa

6 Feb 2014 6 mins

Consumer Electronics Mobile Device Management Privacy

23 Signs Your Cloud Project May Be in Trouble

On many an old map, unknown territories were marked, 'Here be dragons!' Sure, it's actionable, but it's not very informative. Centuries later, do we have the same problem with software project management? Here's how to slay t

6 Feb 2014 6 mins

Agile Development Cloud Computing Project Management Tools

How to Use Agile Development to Avoid Project Failures

The rocky rollout of Healthcare.gov is a very public example of a larger issue of software product failures. Can an agile development framework allow software companies to avoid such project management headaches themselves?

6 Feb 2014 9 mins

Agile Development Developer IT Governance Frameworks

Concurrent Offers Performance Management for Big Data Applications

The primary sponsor of the open source Cascading application framework for big data has unveiled Driven, a big data application performance management product for developers and dev ops.

5 Feb 2014 4 mins

Big Data Developer Open Source

Are Purchasing Practices Killing Your Software Projects?

Alan Shepard famously said, 'It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.' Don't let the purchasing department determine the

31 Jan 2014 7 mins

Agile Development IT Governance Frameworks Project Management Tools

How to Break Bad News About Shipping Software

Imagine you're working on a major project such as Healthcare.gov. Suddenly, you realize there's no way the software will be done on time -- or even work. What do you do? Hear how veteran testers, project managers and developers tactfully ha

24 Jan 2014 10 mins

Agile Development IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks

The new cloud application design paradigm

Most of today's applications, and all of tomorrow's, are built with the cloud in mind. That means yesterday's infrastructure -- and accompanying assumptions about resource allocation, cost and development -- simply won't do.

21 Jan 2014 7 mins

Cloud Computing Developer Virtualization

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