Loraine Lawson

They’re data hoarders: Some of them have 10-plus years of transactional data stored or several months of cookies.And that data is in a poor state. More

Are we already entering the trough of disillusion with Big Data? Gartner Research Director Svetlana Sicular says she sees early indications that we

In general, I think companies stink at thinking ethically, particularly when it comes to technology.As long as I’ve covered technology, there always have

Friday, I wrote about TOGAF, an open standard for starting and running an enterprise architecture (EA). I’ve written about it several times, and I

When I first started working, Total Quality Management was all the rage, and when my workplace embraced it, I thought it was brilliant. I loved the idea

APIs are the primary means of integrating SaaS, but that’s not your only option. It’s also possible to take a more traditional approach to integrating

Are we really done with the application stack?Ross Mason, CTO and co-founder of MuleSoft, thinks SaaS’s growing adoption is effectively ending the

APIs may seem like the domain of developers, and in many ways, they are. APIs have a small footprint, so they’re a useful tool for calling services or

To date, there are three companies offering Hadoop distributions aimed at enterprises — Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks. To be honest, so far, it’s been

The technology sector is about to spend a lot more time talking about application integration for a very simple reason: SaaS and mobile devices.In the

It’s never been cheaper to obtain the technologies needed to process Big Data, but alas, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s still very expensive.“Even

Forbes published a really great Q&A between Chris Perretta, a banking CIO, and Joe McKendrick, a technology analyst and SOA expert.The piece is about