Andy Patrizio

Andy Patrizio is a freelance journalist based in southern California who has covered the computer industry for 20 years and has built every x86 PC he’s ever owned, laptops not included.

Top 75 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Companies in 2023

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Best Data Modeling Tools & Software

What Is Data Modeling? Data modeling is the process of applying structures and methodologies to the data in order to convert it in a useful form for analysis and gaining insight. By preparing...

The IoT Cloud Market

Cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) have become inseparable when one or the other is discussed and with good reason: You really can’t have IoT without the cloud. The cloud,...

The Data Capture Market

Data capture is the process of collecting, ingesting, or otherwise acquiring structured and unstructured data and either converting it into a data format usable by a computer or merely storing it, for...

Data-Driven Decision Making: Top 9 Best Practices

The phrase data-driven decision making – certainly popular in the field of data analytics – may seem redundant. After all, nearly everything is driven by Big Data or we wouldn’t have petabytes...

IoT Security: 10 Tips to Secure the Internet of Things

Clearly, IoT security is more important than ever before – but unfortunately, IoT security is also more challenging than ever before. Some background: the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown of 2020 threw all of the...

Guide to Database Management

A Database Management System (DBMS) is a system for the management of digital databases, stand alone or multiple, including the storage of database content, creation and maintenance of data, search, and other...

Guide to Network as a Service (NaaS)

In the era of cloud computing, many compute functions are being offered as an on-demand service with metered use. While on-demand software could rightfully be traced back to the mainframes of the...

What is a Data Fabric?

Data fabrics are a new type of networking based on a very familiar design concept. If you haven’t heard of the concept of a "data fabric," you will - the trend is growing...

Top PaaS Providers & Companies

The top Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers play a key role in cloud computing – one that will likely expand as cloud deployments keep growing. Along with SaaS and IaaS, PaaS is...

Infrastructure Monitoring Best Practices & Tools

Infrastructure monitoring covers an array of uses and issues, from network optimization to diagnostics to intrusion detection. Infrastructure monitoring can tell you if a router is down,...

10 Best Practices for Application Deployment

The application deployment process offers numerous complex challenges to enterprise IT managers. Chief among them: your staff's existing application deployment skills and tactics may not apply in...

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