What tech teams need to know about WebAssembly

WebAssembly, or Wasm, is an open standard that defines a portable binary-code format and corresponding text format for executable programs. Created and maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Wasm is designed to facilitate high-performance applications on...

4 steps to streamline enterprise cloud spending

The proliferation of cloud computing has fundamentally reshaped how enterprises handle their critical workloads, transforming the cloud into a strategic tool and business enabler. Hyperscalers — cloud service providers that offer scalable, flexible cloud computing...

Chicago flunks cloud economics

The city of Chicago has devised a brilliant plan to jack up its cloud computing tax from 9% to 11%. As someone who has worked in tech for decades, I’ve seen this movie before, and (spoiler alert) it didn’t have a happy ending. This is not a diatribe against taxes;...