Profile of Joe Masters Emison

Co-Founder, BuildFax

News & Commentary Posts: 37

Joe Emison is a serial technical cofounder, most recently with BuildFax, the nation's premier aggregator and supplier of property condition information to insurers, appraisers, and real estate agents. After BuildFax was acquired by DMGT, Joe worked with DMGT's portfolio companies on challenges with product and technology, including digital transformations and cloud migrations. Joe graduated with degrees in English and Mathematics from Williams College and has a law degree from Yale Law School.

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The State of the Cloud 2018

4/9/2018
It's time to stop with the excuses and recognize why an organization needs to move to the cloud.
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The Wrong Reason To Hire More Developers

12/11/2014
Leaders confuse the need to use software to advance their businesses with a mandate to have an internal core development competency.
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How To Build Battle-Tested Websites

9/17/2014
It doesn't matter whether your e-commerce D-Day is Black Friday, tax day, or some random Thursday when a post goes viral. Your websites need to be ready.
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Big Data: How To Pick Your Platform

9/10/2014
Hadoop? A high-scale relational database? NoSQL? Event-processing technology? One size doesn't fit all. Here's how to decide.
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Your Next Cloud Move

9/8/2014
Our 2014 State of Cloud Survey shows IT has realized the easy gains from SaaS. Now it's time to dig into PaaS, containers, performance, and more.
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Hybrid Cloud Security: New Tactics Required

8/13/2014
Interested in shuttling workloads between public and private cloud? Better make sure it's worth doing, because hybrid means rethinking how you manage compliance, identity, connectivity, and more.
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4 Reasons You Must Automate Your Cloud

5/28/2014
Think you can execute in the cloud without using software to orchestrate application life cycles? Wrong.
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PaaS, Docker, And The Future Of Orchestration

5/27/2014
Currently IT's best bet for orchestration hinges on management systems that remotely execute scripts on servers. But what's the answer for platform-as-a-service setups?
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2014 State Of Database Tech: Think Retro

3/10/2014
Conventional databases from Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM still dominate the enterprise, say respondents in our newest research. What will it take for NoSQL, DBaaS, and distributed systems to break through?
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Vendors Must Cater To Developers Or Die

1/8/2014
Technology providers need to realize that the procurement game has fundamentally changed.
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IaaS Performance Benchmarks Part 4: Google Compute Engine

12/11/2013
As part of my project comparing IaaS services, I tested Google Compute Engine and also compared it to AWS. Here are the results.
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Distributed Databases: Stop Stalling

11/20/2013
Your current RDBMS may well be perfectly functional. But big data and the nature of work mean it won't be for long. Then what?
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APIs: Why You Need A Strategy Now

11/18/2013
As software eclipses hardware, it's dawning on enterprises that they need API programs. Here's where to begin.
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Cloud Deployment Debate: Bake Or Bootstrap?

10/30/2013
Anyone who wants to use a public IaaS provider like Amazon Web Services needs to use machine images. Let's delve into the confusion about how to best use those images.
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Why Your Software Development Process Is Broken

9/11/2013
It doesn't matter if you're building the next hot iPhone app or tweaking an in-house ERP system. If you don't want to be roadkill, fundamental changes need to be made.
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The Man Who Tortures Databases

9/5/2013
Have doubts about NoSQL consistency? Meet Kyle Kingsbury's Call Me Maybe project. Here's the number.
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Microsoft Is The Apple Of PaaS

9/4/2013
If you follow risk assessment best practices, public platform-as-a-service is a no go. That is, unless you sign on with a control freak.
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Cloud Security: Why Auditors Are Part Of The Problem

8/28/2013
IT must face the hard reality that compliance rules are stuck in the past -- and forge ahead anyway. Here's how.
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IT's Attitude Problem

5/9/2013
Few of our 446 respondents will change their IT strategies as result of the cloud. That spells lost opportunity.
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Why PaaS Is The Future

4/10/2013
Platform-as-a-service will become standard for Web applications. It's time to evaluate your options and plan a migration strategy.
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How Netflix Is Ruining Cloud Computing

3/25/2013
A laser focus on Amazon Web Services and seeming disregard for next-gen best practices could spell lock-in, and derail real IaaS competition.
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Cloud Standards: Bottom Up, Not Top Down

1/16/2013
IT has good reason to demand standardization in SaaS, IaaS and PaaS offerings. But what's interesting is that vendors themselves are just as interested, and in many cases, are driving standards efforts.
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Infrastructure-As-A-Service Options

10/24/2012
Our latest Buyer's Guide looks at 8 top IaaS offerings in a range of categories.
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Answers To 9 Questions About Public Cloud Migration

9/7/2012
Be sure you have good answers for the business case, security, availability, and more.
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Google IaaS Vs. Amazon EC2: New Benchmarks

7/24/2012
Zencoder's new benchmarks find that Google Compute Engine offers a powerful and competitive infrastructure-as-a-service option to Amazon.
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Google Compute Engine: Hands-On Review

6/28/2012
Google Compute Engine is a stable, reliable, and fast provider of on-demand computing resources. But it offers fewer features than rival Amazon Web Services.
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IaaS A Bad Deal? Not So Fast

4/26/2012
The calculation as to whether infrastructure services make sense involves more than just sunk data center costs.
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