Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Whether the goal is ...

FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago. In this edition, from ...

Startups are fast paced. They strive to grow and innovate swiftly and seamlessly. Startups require IT environments that enable agility and the ability to scale ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 5 (September–October 1970), pages 14–15, 44–45. The text is ...

With major IT trends like the cloud, popularity builds over a period of years—waxing and waning but moving inexorably forward. Other trends take the enterprise world by storm, seeming to come out of ...

One term popping up more and more in the cloud space is “containerization.” If you’re-paying attention to the trends in cloud computing, you’ve probably heard about it, or at least about the most ...

In the realm of industrial automation, software deployment across varied systems is a significant challenge due to differences in operating systems, necessary libraries, runtime environments and ...

Just as video killed the radio star, the emerging popularity of containers services, of which Docker is certainly the most dominant in terms of market share, will lead to the inevitable decline of ...