Darryl K. Taft

NoSQL database maker MongoDB and big data platform provider MapR Technologies this week were named leaders in the big data NoSQL space in a Forrester Research study. In the research firm’s report, “The Forrester Wave: Big Data NoSQL, Q3 2016,” by analyst Noel Yuhanna, MongoDB received the highest scores possible in 19 of the 26 […]

As Microsoft continues to cozy up to the open source community, the company is enlisting assistance from partners to not only promote its open-source offerings, but also to help developers get better acquainted with the Microsoft stack. With that in mind, Microsoft tapped Coding Dojo, a software development training firm and coding bootcamp pioneer, to […]

6 Reasons Enterprise Collaboration Fails and What to Do About It Business collaboration solutions are plentiful, but enterprise adoption remains low. We look at some reasons why, plus ways companies can improve their uptake. Underestimating the Difficulty of Change Management Required to Gain Adoption Companies often deploy collaboration technologies without providing their employees with guidance […]

Unisys today announced it has been awarded a lucrative government cloud computing deal worth $232 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA’s Rural Development agency selected Unisys to provide secure application modernization services for the department and to support the agency’s Rural Development Comprehensive Loan Program (CLP) and other initiatives. Unisys officials […]

Currently on a spree of open-sourcing new developer technology, LinkedIn this week announced it is open sourcing {py}gradl—a set of Gradle plug-ins the company created for building Python libraries and applications. Gradle is a build automation tool that supports many programming languages. It coordinates the process of building software between multiple different code repositories and […]

IBM Research has devised a way to use big data and analytics to identify potential sources of contamination in foods. Researchers at IBM’s Almaden research center in San Jose, Calif., found that analyzing retail scanner data from grocery stores in areas where there are confirmed cases of foodborne illnesses can speed up investigations and narrow […]

Why Companies Get DevOps and Continuous Delivery Wrong We examine mistakes companies make in their DevOps practices and offer tips for testing, tool selection and information sharing to help fix some of these problems. Compromising Speed Over Quality In DevOps, it is often the mentality that everything has to happen as quickly as possible. This […]

IBM is continuing with its strategy to build out its cloud ecosystem by striking deals with industry leading partners such as Workday. Big Blue on Aug. 15 announced a multi-year partnership with human capital management (HCM) software provider Workday to serve as the foundation of Workday’s development and test environment. Moving its development and test […]

CA Technologies, which focuses on helping enterprises transform for the application economy, has delved into the DevOps and Agile development spaces with product and services support. The company also has amassed some serious microservices expertise with its API Academy, as it works to help empower developers to more easily build software, perhaps even leading to […]

Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) provider Built.io this week announced Built.io Backend 3.0, the latest release of its platform, which provides developers with a customizable environment for building mobile applications. The new release’s pluggable architecture enables developers to integrate custom business logic into the Built.io platform’s code base. By introducing support for custom code, […]