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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

30 Jan 2014 7 mins

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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

23 Jan 2014 10 mins

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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.

20 Jan 2014 7 mins

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An OpenStack Primer for IT Executives

OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform, has garnered the support of more than 200 IT vendors. Enterprises embrace the platform for its flexible, hardware-agnostic architecture -- but they should realize that this modularity can come at a

16 Jan 2014 6 mins

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Agile Project Management Lessons Learned From Texas Hold’em

Over the holidays, CIO.com columnist David Taber spent way too much time discovering eternal truths while playing online poker. Take a look at what he learned along the way about agile project management.

13 Jan 2014 6 mins

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DreamForce’s Big Idea: Smartphones as an Enterprise App Platform

At a conference as big and boisterous as Dreamforce, you hear a relentless stream of ideas. Some are good, but most are bad. At Dreamforce 2013, there was only one idea that really mattered: Whether smartphones are the future client for enterprise ap

5 Dec 2013 5 mins

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How Cross-platform Tools Make It Easier to Develop for Both iOS and Android

If you're building applications for Android and iOS, cross-platform mobile development tools can make you more productive. Just don't expect the results to look pretty.

5 Dec 2013 6 mins

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12 Best Free iOS 7 Holiday Shopping Apps

Braving the long lines and crowds for holiday shopping on Black Friday (and beyond)? Use these free iOS7 shopping apps to make your life a little bit easier.

26 Nov 2013 8 mins

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Facebook Open Sources Its Embedded Database Code

Facebook has released RocksDB -- an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage -- to the open source community. The embedded database is intended to support applications that need low-latency database accesses.

21 Nov 2013 3 mins

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IBM Will Beat Amazon Web Services Because Process Beats Product

IBM will eventually beat Amazon Web Services, writes CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle, but not because AWS has an inferior product. In many ways, AWS is better than IBM's cloud offering. But Big Blue's experience with enterprise customers, not

15 Nov 2013 8 mins

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