Graph databases don't provide a significant advantage over well-architected relational DBs for most use cases
Usage and investment in graph is growing, but doubts remain that graph databases will offer advantages over RDBMSes in the long term. Two experts go head to head about their respective benefits.
In the digital age, we should not expect our communications to remain private
We all face the attentions of a range of actors for whom our “privacy” is at best an afterthought. But what privacy actually means in the digital age is hard to define.
A unified, agnostic software environment can be achieved
We debate the question: Can the industry ever have a truly open, unified, agnostic software environment in HPC and AI that can span multiple kinds of compute engines?
Renting hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers
Call it leasing, equipment rental, or hardware as a service, the idea of NOT owning your computing devices has been around for years. But many individuals and corporations have been distinctly ambiguous about the idea, feeling that the benefits tend to flow to the suppliers, and most of all, the financers.
The Pandemic improved the status of the IT workers … forever
Whether tech workers saved the world during the pandemic or whether we should thank health workers and researchers is one for another day. But tech workers certainly kept business and the public sector going, helping organisations pivot to online and by allowing employees to work remotely.. But a year on, has the hero effect worn off? Or can they, should they, expect a permanently elevated status?
Assumed consent is the right approach for sharing healthcare patients’ data, beyond their direct care
The debate around the benefits of sharing medical data for the greater good versus individual’s expectations of confidentiality and consent, has become heated to say the least over the last year and a half. But if consent is not just assumed, but informed, do we all stand to benefit? Our contributors serve up their own prescriptions, but you get to decide.
Technology widens the education divide - Yes or No?
The pandemic has highlighted the increasing importance of technology within education – and shown what happens when policy makers and education authorities get things wrong. But is this just a question of access, or are there other factors we need to consider? Our contributors take to their keyboards to thrash out the issues.
Containers will kill virtual machines
Should you migrate your services and applications to containers, or are virtual machines good enough? Is containerization an overkill and just for the likes of Google and Amazon, or are virtual machines a blunt tool unsuitable for modern software deployment?
Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative
Hackers are friends not foes, says Alyssa Miller in this opening argument for our latest debate
Consolidating databases has significant storage benefits, therefore everyone should be doing it
Proponents claim storage consolidation means less storage, which means lower costs. Naysayers argue storage consolidation may actually increase costs and can be hugely complex. Where is the benefit?
Artificial intelligence in the enterprise is just yesterday's dumb algorithms rebranded as AI
Is this artificial intelligence genuinely useful, does the technology as it stands today have a place in the enterprise, or is it simply a cynical marketing turn to dress up previous algorithms as intelligent?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
