Cybersecurity AI trends in 2024 according to Edgio
Thursday, December 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
Looking ahead to 2024 and beyond, it is clear that the cybersecurity skills gap will only continue to widen. However, by leveraging AI tools and investing in the development of skilled cybersecurity professionals who can work effectively with these tools, organizations can better protect their networks and data from cyber threats and ensure they remain resilient in an i...
Cloud computing skills will be in high demand for 2023
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
We recently caught up with Drew Firment from Pluralsight and asked him all about their predictions for 2023, including what are the most in-demand cloud computing skills, what your business needs to do to adopt the cloud and reach cloud maturity, the upcoming trends in cloud computing that will become a larger part of the landscape in 2023, whether the cloud s...
Developer shortages in 2022
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
The biggest business challenge this year will be recruiting developers with the right skills, according to more than half (53%) of the software developers and IT professionals responding to the new Reveal "Top Software Development Challenges for 2022" survey released by Infragistics. Reveal’s third annual survey examined the pain points, challenges,...
2021 Coding Week recap from industry experts
Monday, September 20, 2021 by Richard Harris
National Coding Week takes place during September 13 - September 19 and it is a great time to engage everyone into coding in a fun and easy way. According to an article from National Today, "92 percent of executives believe American workers are not as skilled as they need to be." National Coding Week is a perfect opportunity for improving your coding skills to...
Comparing IT operations and IT service teams
Friday, January 17, 2020 by Richard Harris
As CIOs look ahead to 2020, they need to address the growing convergence of IT services and IT operations by implementing strategies to break down silos between departments. Vidhya Srinivasan, VP of Solution Marketing and Digital Service Management & Operations at BMC Software, recently sat with us to discuss how organizations can run and reinvent their businesses w...
How to hire top technical talent
Monday, October 28, 2019 by Richard Harris
We recently spoke with Maria Chung, VP of People at HackerRank about hiring technical talent. HackerRank is a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for over 1,500+ companies around the world. The current methods for technical interviewing fall flat when it comes to showcasing a candidate’s true skills. By enabling...
Crowdsourced security and bug bounty adoption is spreading
Monday, May 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
There continues to be a fundamental imbalance in cybersecurity. Attackers are finding new ways to penetrate cyber defenses as targets proliferate to the cloud, mobile, and connected devices. Defenders need to take a proactive security approach.
The evolving threat landscape and the ever-widening security skills gap are giving rise to new approaches such as crowdsourc...
Lightning Platform Mobile from Salesforce aims to futureproof apps
Thursday, January 24, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Adding another lego to the wall between native programmers and low-code app builders, Salesforce has just announced the new Lightning Platform Mobile, a set of tools and services that aim to empower business users to build quick, connected and future-proofed mobile apps.
Consumers today expect their mobile experiences to be immersive and easy-to-use. But with a...
Machine learning data science platform drops by SnapLogic
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
SnapLogic announced SnapLogic Data Science, a new self-service solution to accelerate the development and deployment of machine learning with minimal coding. Through SnapLogic’s drag-and-drop interface, data engineers, data scientists, and IT/DevOps teams can use SnapLogic Data Science to manage and control the entire machine learning lifecycle - including data ac...
Azure and Unravel boost Big Data in the Cloud
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Unravel Data announced that it has integrated with Microsoft Azure to improve performance and reliability for Big Data workloads in the cloud. Unravel’s APM platform will be available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling Azure customers to analyze, troubleshoot and optimize their Big Data deployments with a full-stack solution. As a result, enterprises will gain...
Job automation: Impacts, risks, and the future
Friday, April 27, 2018 by Richard Harris
Automation has been affecting our everyday lives for a long time now. From washing machines cleaning our clothes for us to water coming out of the facet because of a well, we love convenience, and automation makes it all happen.I think every generation has stood on the cliff of change because of automation. When technology is involved, making it working "automatically" ...
Enterprise AI tools launched by Paperspace
Thursday, March 22, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Paperspace has announced the launch of Gradient to put the power of artificial intelligence into the hands of every developer. With Gradient, AI and Machine Learning developers of all levels can tap into a dedicated cloud of AI solutions for building, training and deploying machine learning applications.“There’s no denying that AI is the future of every industry, but to...
Learning AI to stop the Terminator from taking your job
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
For me the mention of AI and machine learning shoots my thoughts right into the “Terminator” movies, and the great struggle to maintain human existence in the year 2029. The film series is based around a giant AI computing superintelligence named “Skynet”, which is essentially in control of the entire Earth, and a legion of robots that want to destroy anything that thre...
Reasons to consider low code development in 2018
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 by Malcolm Carroll
A recent survey of IT leaders from analysts Forrester estimated that the low code development market will be worth $15 billion by 2020, highlighting that low-code development platforms speed up application delivery, dramatically improving the ability of the IT departments to respond to business demands.One of the key areas of use will be in the development of mobile app...
Kony introduces a new Base Camp to app developers
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kony, Inc. has announced the launch of Kony Base Camp, a curated online community designed to empower both professional and citizen developers to gain the modern IT skills needed to accelerate the development and delivery of omni-channel apps.The pace and demands of today’s digital business environment has resulted in an increasing IT skills gap - one that hinders profe...
Geektastic launches to help companies find developers
Friday, November 17, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
60% of UK companies face a skills gap within their tech departments and cannot fill positions quickly enough to meet demand. To solve this major challenge, London startup Geektastic has launched a new technology platform supported by a global community of skilled software engineers, who are offering unique peer-reviewed coding challenges to evaluate developers, to suppo...
Catching up with Red Hat Mobile to talk about low code in the enterprise
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
Low code is a movement that has emerged in the marketplace in recent times, not only for mobile but also for business process management (BPM) and other application development areas. What company can resist the pull of low-cost and relatively fast development times? Especially when it's as simple as a drag and drop gesture away. So it's not surprising that many big nam...
IT departments continue to struggle says new report
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
BigPanda, the Algorithmic Event Management Platform that transforms high volumes of IT alerts into actionable insights, announced the release of its 2017 “State of Monitoring” report. The company’s annual survey is designed to evaluate the current IT monitoring landscape, including a review of the most popular tools for monitoring, deployment, and tick...
Developing open source software defined standards
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is announcing its new Open Innovation Pipeline made possible through the aligned operations of ONF and Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) as these two organizations finalize their pending merger.ON.Lab, with CORD and ONOS, successfully brought together operators, vendors and integrators to build solutions for carrier networks by leveraging...
CompTIA shows how tech continues to shape the world
Monday, February 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
Paced by anticipated customer demand for emerging technology, services and software, information technology (IT) industry executives enter 2017 with a positive outlook, according to the IT Industry Outlook 2017 released by CompTIA, a technology association. Their "consensus forecast" projects global industry growth of 4.1 percent in 2017.“With the groundwork of cloud, m...
Why app developers are choosing to freelance
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 by Richard Harris
Freelancing is increasingly becoming a career path that people are pursuing, and not only that, is one that could be leading to statistically higher work satisfaction than the traditional employment situation for many people globally. 50% of freelancers say there’s no amount of money you could pay them to take a traditional job, according to a study done by Freelancing ...
Industrial IoT (IIoT) predictions for 2017
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Programmability at the SCADA and Sensor access layer to drive major digital transformation initiatives for distributed enterprises in 2017. FreeWave Technologies, Inc. has five Industrial IoT (IIoT) predictions for 2017 for you to consider. The series marks the second annual list of Industrial IoT (IIoT) predictions compiled by FreeWave's top industry experts. ...
The drive for agility is fueling key transformations in IT
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 by Eduardo Cruz
IT has a crucial role to play in the UK’s future prosperity. Britain must have the right level of skills, competencies and abilities to compete globally and sustain economic potency, especially now that it has decided to leave the European Union.
From local start-ups to global enterprises, companies are in dire need of data scientists, talented...
Key findings of the Apache Spark market research study
Friday, November 11, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
In order to better understand Apache Spark’s growing role in big data, Taneja Group conducted a major market research project, surveying approximately 7,000 people. The sample was made up of technical and managerial job roles from around the world directly involved in big data. The survey, which received an overwhelming response, explored experiences with and ...
There has never been a better time to be a Salesforce developer
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Trailhead is Salesforce's interactive learning environment for all app creators, enabling them to master in-demand Salesforce skills through free hands-on training.We spoke with Sarah Franklin, senior vice president of developer relations and general manager of Trailhead at Salesforce, about a report released on the size of and job opportunities in the Salesforce ecosys...
Hired.com Dives Into The United Kingdom Tech Sector After Brexit
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Hired.com, a platform that connects companies with top IT talent, has recently published the “Mind the Gap” report that takes a deep dive into the United Kingdom tech sector to identify the digital skills that companies are demanding to help their businesses grow. The report also analyzes how issues such as Brexit, the uncertainty around freedom of movement, and the gro...