Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In an era defined by data, the world of software development is experiencing a profound ...

One of the hotter topics in the professional broadcast world is the generational transition to IP technologies for video. When examining this paradigm shift in video production and transmission ...

Truly Software Defined Data Centers (SDDCs) are still a work in progress for most organizations. In theory, an SDDC allows compute, storage and networking to be automatically provisioned on demand and ...

Architectures for software-defined data centers can address the need for flexibility and agility, but implementing them is difficult and calls for coordinating a host of complex features including ...

This blog is about an industry area that has come to be called “Big Data.” The excitement around Big Data is huge; the mere fact that the term is capitalized implies a lot of respect. A number of ...

Driven by a very strong belief in the future of software-defined data center technology, Bank of America is steering its IT to almost total virtualization, from the data center to desktop. The ...

The fundamental data structure in a data processing system. Any unit of data defined for processing is a data element; for example, ACCOUNT NUMBER, NAME, ADDRESS and CITY. A data element is defined by ...