Bob Violino
Contributing writer
Bob Violino is a freelance writer who covers a variety of technology and business topics.
IT career roadmap: Cloud architect
Cloud architect is one of the top paid roles for IT professionals, and for good reason. Find out what it takes to become a cloud architect, including education, on-the-job learning, and cloud certifications.
What is IaaS? A data center in the cloud packed with services
Need compute, storage, and networking infrastructure without the capital investment? IaaS delivers those resources over the internet on demand, along with the cloud services you need to build, deploy, and maintain almost any...
IT career roadmap: Director of engineering
A Google Cloud Platform director of engineering reflects on her education and career path, including founding her own startup and timely advice from other women in tech.
Career roadmap: Head of engineering
Head of engineering is both a visionary role and a highly skilled and experienced technical leader. Here's how one software engineer worked his way from graduate school to the top spot.
Career roadmap: Data engineer
A combination of education, on-the-job training, and a certificate in data science paved the way from health sciences to data engineering.
Career roadmap: Machine learning scientist
Data scientists and machine learning scientists have similar roles, but a machine learning scientist specializes in researching and implementing complex algorithms.
Career roadmap: Machine learning engineer
As organizations worldwide adopt machine learning across virtually every industry, the demand for machine learning engineers is on the rise.
Cyber security in the public cloud
A brief guide to the network, infrastructure, data, and application security capabilities AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud provide to prevent cyber attacks and protect your cloud-based resources and workloads.
30 top SaaS companies for business
These leading SaaS providers offer IT management, business management, marketing, productivity, collaboration, and other applications from the cloud.
How AI can enhance customer experience
G&J Pepsi and Zipline turn to data science and machine learning to get the right products to the right locations at the right time.
3 enterprise AI success stories
How Beacon Street Services, Company Nurse, and Devon Energy are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve sales and marketing, identify and protect sensitive information, and automate oil drilling operations.
How to excel with data analytics
Finding success with data analytics requires good tools, good data management, and good strategy. Turn to these best practices to turn your growing volumes of data into better business decision-making.
IT career roadmap: AI engineer
Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous across all the functional areas of business and is expected to break the $500 billion mark by 2024, according to IDC. So what does it take to become an AI engineer? We spoke with Mike...
IT career roadmap: Database administrator
As information becomes ever more strategically important for organizations, database administrators continue to play a vital role in the success of enterprises.
IT career roadmap: Cloud architect
A vital part of digital transformation efforts, demand for cloud architects is expected to grow, with forecasters suggesting it could be one of the 10 most in-demand technology jobs for 2020. Here’s a look at what it takes to become a...
IT career roadmap: DevOps engineer
The increased need for faster application delivery, higher productivity of businesses, and elimination of unnecessary capital expenditures in IT are expected to accelerate the market and the need for highly qualified DevOps engineers...
How to manage contracts in a multi-cloud environment
One management challenge of a multi-cloud environment is how to handle all the contracts that come with using multiple providers and services.
IT career roadmap: Cloud engineer
The shift to the cloud has been so pervasive that it has left a lot of companies with a skills gap they are struggling to fill with professionals who have cloud experience. That makes it a great time to be a cloud engineer.
IT’s 10 biggest challenges amid COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted IT operations across nearly every industry. Here’s how IT leaders are rising to the challenges.