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Originally from Scotland, Drew Robb has been a full-time freelance writer for more than 25 years. He lives in Florida and specializes in IT, engineering, and business. As well as eWeek and TechRepublic, he writes for a wide range of magazines including Gas Turbine World, SDxCentral, and HR Magazine. He is the author of Server Disk Management in a Windows Environment (Auerbach Publications).
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Algorithms: they have become something of a “can’t live with them, can’t live without them,” aspect of modern life. They impinge on our daily lives by attempting to figure out the kinds of ads we should be served – I currently get ads about women’s clothing, golf (which I don’t play), and other non-related items. […]
Application Programming Interface (API) management is all about creating and publishing APIs, enforcing policy about their use, managing access rights, reporting on performance, and analyzing statistics about usage rates. Security is obviously a big part of it. After all, businesses are increasingly dependent on APIs to facilitate their interaction with a multitude of other applications, […]
Tibco Spotfire and Microsoft Power BI are two of the top business intelligence and data analytics platforms in the market. Both data platforms are in heavy demand as companies need to make major use of data analytics to gain competitive advantage. Virtually all divisions of companies – across all industry sectors – are data-dependent and […]
Alteryx and IBM Cognos are two well respected business intelligence (BI) and data analytics platforms. Both were scored well by Gartner in its latest “Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.” BI and analytics applications are a critically important tool for organizations seeking to harness the vast troves of data at their disposal. Instead […]
Sisense and Microsoft Power BI are two of the top business intelligence and data analytics platforms available. Both of these data analytics applications are in heavy demand as organizations seek to harness the vast troves of data at their disposal. And that data is growing. Whether from relational databases, enterprise applications, unstructured data, and social media, […]
Citrix and VMware have been among the leading VDI pioneers and are now competing head-to-head in a related market, DaaS. Both vendors are well respected in this growing area. First, some background. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology was developed many years back as a way to virtualize the desktop. It enables access to enterprise systems […]
Tableau and Sisense are two well respected business intelligence and data analytics platforms. Both were scored well by Gartner in its latest “Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.” Gartner graded Tableau as a leader and Sisense as a Visionary. BI and analytics applications continue to be a hot item in the world […]
Micro Focus ArcsSight and Splunk operate in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) space. Both offer broad monitoring and analytics of security incidents, potential threats, and analysis of logs. Buyers looking for a general SIEM platform are likely to find both solutions on their list of strong candidates. Overall, though, there are plenty of […]
Data analytics and data management have become crucially important as digital transformation makes business ever more competitive. But with the volume of data to be analyzed rapidly rising, organizations need a way to corral all that data in one place, ripe for analysis. Enter modern cloud-based data warehouses such as Snowflake and AWS Redshift. Both […]
Datadog and Cisco AppDynamics both offer advanced application performance monitoring (APM) features. Both are well established APM platforms, and both are graded as Leaders in the latest Gartner APM Magic Quadrant. There are plenty of similarities in terms of features and functionalities for these two APM tools, and yet also quite a few differences. So […]