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From Red Hat to rPath: Erik Troan shares story of road from Linux to Windows

Having crated version control for Linux-based systems, rPath's founders saw a Windows-based world waiting for the same tools.

Why are IT costs for small and medium businesses so high?

Executive Insight: A lot of these dismal IT spending statistics are being driven by SMB executives who do not understand the true value proposition of using independent, unbiased IT consultants across a range of strategy, assessment or due diligence processes or the resulting return on investment that pays dividends overtime.

Information technology performance – An analysis

Executive Insight: Demonstrable performance should be commensurate with IT investment. The key question is which metrics are used to measure that performance and how an IT organization performs against those metrics.

Handling those e-mails to the president - The Agile way

Executive Insight: Agile software development refers to a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development. Product requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. Does it work? Yes. The Agile process has transformed our business. Unlike typical “waterfall” development, it has brought us closer to our customers, increased employee productivity and engaged our employees.

Maximize your technology ROI and create superior IT performance

Executive Insight: There is no silver bullet for best-in-class technology ROI for your company. There are, however, some well-understood and time-tested steps that can make a major difference in preparing your IT organization to be a leader within your company, take advantage of the economic recovery and to meet the demands of today’s global, fast-paced business environment.

Open source software license enforcement actions on the rise

Executive Insight: Be forewarned – Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center and other licensors have recently taken a more active approach to enforcement of open source software licenses, leading to a host of enforcement actions against companies that incorporate open source software into their products.

Technology leadership – Focusing beyond just the newest tools, breakthroughs

Executive Insight: Today more than ever, it is essential that technology leaders ensure an increasingly greater value and return from the investment made in technology, whether it is through IT or product software.

From nation's founding to today: Let's define 'entrepreneur'

Executive Insight: Entrepreneurs have played an essential role in founding our nation, building its wealth and enabling significant contributions to the human condition. The entrepreneurial spirit thrives on innovation and will withstand hardships and risks.

Building championship IT teams -Talent, a plan, one ego

Executive Insight: Most teams have a good game plan and skilled players, but the unbeatable teams have a team ego as opposed to an individual need for recognition.

Triangle emerges as hotbed of advanced analytics

Executive Insight: Advanced analytics -- an umbrella term used to describe an expanding collection of software tools, analytical methods and applications -- has emerged in recent years to address head-on the challenges we face in managing and analyzing the data we collect. With the growing demand for advanced analytics, the Triangle is poised to become the world’s leading center for analytics software, expertise and education.

Data analytics grows in RTP

Triangle Technology Executives Council – Building success together

Executive Insight: In just over a year, TTEC has exploded in growth to more than 190 members. Members exchange ideas and advice while discussing problems with a bottom line goal of helping each other grow. In future columns, TTEC will offer insight to Local Tech Wire readers as well.