The highly centralized enterprise data center is becoming a thing of the past, as organizations must embrace a more distributed model to deal with everything from content management to big data. Here ...

Agility is increasingly being seen as an essential element underlying the effectiveness of globally distributed information systems development (ISD) teams today. However, for a variety of reasons, ...

For example, in Amazon, a high-traffic database can cost millions per year. With hundreds of distributed systems, these costs add up to hundreds of millions, making optimization crucial for long ...