Darryl K. Taft

LAS VEGAS—IBM is leveraging its Power Systems and mainframe technology to better support big data applications in the cloud. At the IBM Pulse 2014 conference here, Big Blue announced that SoftLayer is integrating IBM Power Systems into their cloud infrastructure that is expected to deliver a level and breadth of services beyond what has traditionally […]

IBM and AT&T announced a strategic relationship to provide businesses with a simplified, single source for network security and threat management. The companies announced their agreement at the RSA Conference 2014, saying they will offer business customers a new joint service combining security network infrastructure with advanced threat monitoring and analytics. Cyber-threats have become a […]

Pivotal announced that it will move to establish a formal open governance model for the Cloud Foundry open-source project, known as the Cloud Foundry Foundation. IBM will be joining Pivotal as a founding Platinum sponsor—as will enterprise software leaders EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, SAP and VMware—to create an independent nonprofit foundation for the Cloud Foundry project. […]

LAS VEGAS—Twilio has announced a partnership with IBM that brings the power of Twilio’s software and cloud-based communications platform to the IBM platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, code-named BlueMix. According to the San Francisco-based company, as of Feb. 24, IBM customers can deploy Twilio solutions when building applications in IBM BlueMix. Indeed, Twilio co-founder and CEO Jeff […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM continued on its journey to assume a leadership role in the cloud computing space with the announcement of its intent to acquire Cloudant, a startup that provides a database-as a service (DBaaS). At the IBM Pulse 2014 conference here, IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston-based Cloudant, a privately held DBaaS […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM pledged to invest $1 billion in a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) to connect enterprise applications and data to the cloud, delivering its time-honored middleware via the cloud. IBM is opening its middleware to the cloud for the first time. Its middleware is the core of its $26 billion software business that […]

Microsoft recently released a new Bing Code Search Add-in for Visual Studio 2013 that makes it easier for developers to search across community Websites. The Bing Code Search extension facilitates developers searching across several community Websites—including MSDN, StackOverflow, Dotnetperls and CSharp411—without having to switch to a browser. In addition, it customizes the snippets it finds […]

IBM’s System x: History of the Iconic Server Line Lenovo Is Set to Buy by Darryl K. Taft First-Gen Enterprise x Architecture (EXA) In 2001, IBM introduced the first generation of its Enterprise x architecture (EXA) designed for x86-based servers, the first to offer a scalable 16-processor design. EXA delivered faster response time, better availability […]

Evolution of the Modern Geek By Darryl K. Taft Y2K and the Millennium Geek On the brink of the new millennium, IT pros were dealing with a technology nightmare. Y2K sent geeks everywhere into a frenzy as they prepared for the impending doom of the Millennium Bug, marking a shift in infrastructure complexity issues that […]

IBM Security has announced new offerings to help organizations protect themselves against cyber attacks. Big Blue will provide a new service to help enterprises use the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) new Cybersecurity Framework as well as an appliance for helping organizations diagnose and defend their data and enterprise networks against external attacks […]