Darryl K. Taft

5 Common Mistakes Companies Make in Their Mobile Policies When creating a formal enterprise mobility policy, beware of these five common pitfalls to ensure the policy is beneficial to both the business and employees. Rolling Out a Policy Without First Understanding the Business Impact Whether it’s to help maintain work efficiencies, reduce roaming overages or […]

IBM announced that it has joined forces with Mapbox to bring geospatial analysis or mapping to business users. Together, the companies are integrating the Mapbox scalable vector graphics-based maps with IBM’s Watson Analytics and Cognos Analytics. Mapbox offers an open-source mapping platform for custom designed maps. The company’s APIs and SDKs are the building blocks […]

In June, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire LinkedIn, the business-oriented social networking service, for $26 billion. LinkedIn, which boasts a stable of talented engineers across a spectrum of disciplines—including cloud infrastructure, mobile and web technologies, has had a history of open-sourcing some of its core technology to the benefit of the community. LinkedIn’s Kafka […]

IBM has extended its focus on India with a new multi-million dollar five-year agreement with Vodafone India to manage the company’s IT infrastructure and provide support for its applications environment. Under the deal, an expansion of IBM’s relationship with Vodafone India, IBM will launch a new hybrid cloud platform to help the company provide quality […]

5 Ways Pegasystems Is Helping to Digitally Transform Companies As digital changes the way companies approach customer service, marketing and sales engagement, some are innovating more than others. Here are some examples. British Gas Serving around 11 million homes, British Gas is the largest energy and services provider in the UK—yet, its marketing strategy wasn’t […]

LinkedIn continues to open-source core technologies to help developers and IT staff better build and manage applications, this week delivering two Android-based tools to the community. The first is Shaky, an Android shake-for-feedback library that enables Android device users to shake their phones to report bugs in features and applications. In the past year, LinkedIn […]

IBM research scientists have advanced the company’s effort to extend cognitive computing with a breakthrough that could lead to the development of neuromorphic computers. Neuromorphic computing, or brain-inspired computing, is the use of computing technology built to perform like the neuro-biological architectures in the human nervous system. A team of scientists at IBM Research in […]

IBM this week announced the creation of X-Force Red, a new elite security testing team made up of hundreds of security professionals based in dozens of locations around the world. The new team will conduct penetration tests to try to uncover security vulnerabilities for IBM clients. Charles Henderson, a penetration testing expert and security professional […]

5 Technologies You Need to Build an IoT Application With data coming in from so many sources, building an Internet of things application isn’t easy. However, these five technologies may help. Computation (Spark, Impala, Storm, etc.) IoT applications run on distributed infrastructures. Clusters of servers are responsible for ingesting, analyzing and storing large amounts of […]

Apigee, an API management and predictive analytics solution provider, has teamed up with Pivotal to bring Apigee’s Edge Microgateway API management capability to the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform. The companies announced the collaboration at the SpringOne Platform 2016 conference in Las Vegas on August 2. Apigee Edge Microgateway is a lightweight solution that enables enterprises […]