Darryl K. Taft

ORLANDO, Fla.–According to a recent study sponsored by SAS, a leading provider of business analytics software, banks lack the proper ammunition to combat the ongoing threat of cyber-crime. Indeed, evolving security threats, technology limitations and simple lack of awareness make cyber-risk a daunting hurdle for today’s banks, the study showed. Sponsored by SAS, the recent […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–Hoping to satisfy a growing need among businesses inundated with data and struggling to deal with the deluge, SAS is making moves to simplify big data and the tools required to handle it, particularly Hadoop. Organizations struggle to quickly gain value from all data, SAS said. But growing investments in Hadoop and other big-data […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—SAS Institute, a provider of business analytics software, delivered results of a recent study that indicates that despite an uptick in privacy concerns, consumers want to be understood by the businesses with which they interact. At the SAS Media Day at the company’s headquarters in Cary, N.C., and again at the company’s Premier Business […]

Yet another study has found that a majority of enterprise application teams are struggling to keep pace with project schedules. This new study, however, conducted by Forrester Consulting, offers the concept of “Integrated Thinking” as a solution. According to an October commissioned study conducted by Forrester on behalf of EffectiveUI–a software design and development firm, […]

IBM and Libelium, a wireless sensor network hardware provider, announced the release of an Internet of things Starter Kit to enable dozens of sensor applications ranging from monitoring parking spaces or air pollution to providing assistance for the elderly. Created by IBM scientists and Libelium engineers to ease application development, testing and scalability of wireless […]

IBM researchers have delivered a new security wrinkle that will enhance the company’s MobileFirst strategy by providing two-factor security for mobile transactions. Big Blue scientists developed the new mobile authentication security technology based on the radio standard known as near-field communication (NFC). The technology provides an extra layer of security when using an NFC-enabled device […]

On the same day Microsoft began making Windows 8.1 generally available, the company also announced that the final releases of Visual Studio 2013, .NET 4.5.1 and Team Foundation Server 2013 (TFS) are now available for download. In a blog post on the availability of the final releases of the developer tools—also known as release to […]

IBM delivered mixed third-quarter earnings, with revenues down 4 percent and net income up 6 percent, led by high growth opportunities and dragged down by declining hardware sales. IBM reported total revenues for the third quarter of 2013 of $23.7 billion, down 4 percent from the third quarter of 2012. And third quarter net income […]

Coupa Software is big on the use of Ruby and Ruby on Rails for enterprise Web development, so much that it is pretty much all the company does. San Mateo, Calif.-based Coupa is a spend management company, which means it helps companies control their indirect spending and generate savings by delivering such capabilities as e-procurement […]

IBM Research announced two new cognitive computing technologies, based on Big Blue’s Watson supercomputer system that are expected to help physicians make more informed and accurate decisions faster and to cull new insights from electronic medical records (EMR). The two Watson-related cognitive projects, known as “WatsonPaths” and “Watson EMR Assistant,” are the result of a […]

The Groovy programming language has gained in popularity over the last year, such that it has now cracked the top 20 list of the TIOBE Index of most popular programming languages. Groovy, an object-oriented scripting language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), ranks number 18 on the TIOBE Index. Last year this time […]

Microsoft donated its RIA Services codebase to the open-source community to help launch a new Outercurve Foundation open-source project called “Open RIA Services.” Open RIA Services will simplify the development of cross-platform ASP.NET applications for the Web and be supported by community involvement, Microsoft said. The Outercurve Foundation is an open-source foundation that provides IP […]