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After years of talk about business-IT alignment, users are still circumventing IT departments to find technology solutions on their own. Why?

Now more than ever CIOs and IT leaders must take a second look at both their team and their relationship to business counterparts

Developers at JPL were excited about container technology, but operations worried that it was the next shiny object and that they would be left with operational challenges.

How does leadership evolve in an IT organization?

Data science absolutely is an art. You don't make a data scientist just by taking an engineer and saying, "Hey, go write some queries."

If your organization doesn’t yet have an immediate need for containers, it’s still a good idea to start to develop some understanding of the technology.

"The Phoenix Project" author Gene Kim explains why "an organizational learning culture" is what's driving the DevOps movement. "An organizational learning culture is what enables some of these wildly different ways of working, whether it’s automated deployments, creating environments on demand, or proactive production — all these things that we do in DevOps. They're all created by organizations that have cultures of true organizational learning."

Here are five basic questions to help determine whether open source is a good fit for your next software project.

The New York Times IT team doesn't spend a lot of time debating the issue of open versus proprietary.

Everyone's talking about the benefits of DevOps, but moving to a DevOps model can be a big challenge for traditional IT departments.

New York Times CIO Marc Frons explains why the Times doesn't treat its engineers and technologists as mere order-takers, but rather considers them peers with the other creative people at the company and the business folks at the company.

Red Hat CIO Lee Congdon says he still encounters CIOs who are reluctant to try open source solutions.

Most organizations are sitting on a goldmine of data, but they have not begun to mine it to uncover the real transformative value. Unfortunately, many IT leaders remain on the sidelines because they think investing in analytics would be too costly. But analytics do not have to be expensive. There are good inexpensive or free tools and insightful books available with many examples from different industries to learn from and get an inspiration.

In today's integrated world, no software can stand on its own. So CTOs need to create APIs right from the start — and consider developers as they would end users. That advice comes from Uri Sarid, CTO at MuleSoft, which helps organizations connect data, applications, and devices. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on the importance of interoperability.

Weather Company CIO Bryson Koehler outlines five reasons why he believes in open source, explaining why his organization has been a big adopter of open source software.

Open source is the future says Red Hat CIO Lee Congdon, who writes that future architectures are highly likely to be based on open source.

Today's IT students are big supporters of open source, says IT professor.

Weather Company CIO Bryson Koehler says it's time for CIOs to have an "uncomfortable" conversation about open source software.

Marc Frons, senior vice president and chief information officer of the New York Times, discusses how The Times actively contributes to open source communities.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Docker acquiring Orchard, SAP who will support Cloud Foundry and OpenStack, the UK government who made ODF its official document standard, and more!