About Brian Pereira

A veteran technology editor with over 30 years of experience, Brian began his career at The Indian Express in 1994. He has since reported for premier publications including The Times of India, BW Business World, CHIP, and InformationWeek. He also produced the CeBIT and INTEROP conferences in India. He has since retired and consults for media organizations. Write to Brian: [email protected] LinkedIn: ​https://www.linkedin.com/in/pereirabrian/ Muckrack: brian-pereira-6 X: https://x.com/creed_digital Substack: @brianper

Blogs by Brian Pereira

INDUSTRIESIT/ITES/BPO/KPOTRENDING

Gartner: Global IT Spending to Grow 0.6% in 2019

Global cues such as fears of a recession, the on-going trade wars, tariffs, and sanctions–and of course Brexit, have impacted IT spending this year. According to Gartner, Growth in global IT spending this year is almost flat as compared to last year. Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.74 trillion in 2019, an increase of 0.6% from 2018, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. This is slightly down from the previous quarter’s forecast of 1.1% growth.

IT Spending, Technical Debt
INTERVIEWSBIG DATA & ANALYTICSTECH NEWS

‘Measuring the value of the data is a prerequisite for business success’

Ted Friedman, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner has interacted with several organisations and observes that data analytics leaders and Chief Data Officers are not directly measuring the financial value of data & analytics. He says that the value of data could be included in the valuation of the company in future. He also talks about the models that Gartner offers to help organisations assess the economic value of their data.

data-driven decisions, Data Analytics, data Integration
OPINION

What determines your success in an organisation?

What are the attributes you look for when you join an organisation? Look beyond the salary, perks, and designation because there are other critical things that can determine your success or failure. This blog post discusses what you really should be looking for.

culture, collaborations, teams
TRENDINGCLOUD & DATA CENTEROPEN SOURCETECH NEWS

RHEL 8: Simplifying the Management of Multiple Clouds

In the third and concluding part of our Red Hat series, we outline the features and enhancements of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. These features are aimed at simplifying the management of hybrid, multicloud environments. Enhanced support for containers means developers can build applications once and run them anywhere – without worrying about the underlying hardware or the runtime environments.

hybrid cloud architecture, multiple clouds, cloud computing
TOP STORIES OF THE WEEKOPEN SOURCETECH NEWS

Red Hat Open Brand Project: New Hat, Same Soul

The Red Hat brand was once overshadowed by more prominent IT brands in a monopolistic technology industry. The brand is more prominent today and plays a vital role in the datacentre – so the brand logo had to keep up with that, and it was time for change. To do that, Red Hat announced the Open Brand Project at the end of 2016. In keeping with the open source community spirit of sharing and collaborating, it invited partners, customers, analysts, and media to participate in the redesign of its logo. Here’s how Red Hat worked with the community to make its old shadowman logo more prominent and vivid.

Red Hat logo