As a guest on the Federal News Radio program in Washington, I was being asked about my experiences in reducing IT costs. Joining me on the program was Jerry Davis, the deputy CIO at NASA, who ...

Among the many buzzwords or common phrases used in business, “blueprint” is on the list. In many cases, the word serves as a great visualization for how a company wants to structure teams, processes ...

During a press Q&A at Confluent's Current 2025 conference this week in New Orleans, I asked CEO Jay Kreps whether it's useful to think about Confluent as establishing a "system of record for context" ...

Today's enterprises need a unified semantic layer that seamlessly connects traditional BI, self- service analytics, and emerging AI/ML workloads. As organizations face challenges in modernizing their ...

In this special guest feature, Moises Do Nascimento of Medidata discusses his 3-pronged approach to creating effective data architectures that have served him well, especially now that he deals with ...

Critical to any business is the architecture which supports present and ongoing business success. However, cultivating a great architecture is more easily said than done, as such infrastructures ...

After many years leading digital transformation across global enterprises, I’ve learned one truth that most CIOs discover too late: AI is only as powerful as the data architecture supporting it. Yet ...

IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition completes its hybrid cloud stack, with Kafka streaming joining Red Hat and HashiCorp for ...

Healthcare organizations are awash in data. But not every health system is able to utilize its data in ways that yield actionable insights or opportunities for performance improvement. Without a clear ...

Although Frictionless Enterprise is about much more than technology, it is fundamentally shaped by technology. Therefore the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure an organization adopts is ...