Darryl K. Taft

OpenStack Advances as Corporate Open Cloud Platform of Choice in 2014 by Darryl K. Taft Public Support From Large Enterprises If 2013 served as the test case for OpenStack within the enterprise, 2014 will serve as the year in which enterprise-grade deployments will become not just publicly visible but will be disclosed by big-name end […]

IBM announced its next major chapter for Watson–fueling economic development and sparking new business opportunities across Africa. This announcement comes on the heels of IBM’s $1 billion bet to create the Watson Group, which will accelerate efforts around the new era of cognitive computing. Now, IBM has launched a 10-year initiative to bring Watson and […]

Microsoft named Scott Guthrie to the position of executive vice president of its Cloud & Enterprise division on Feb. 4. Guthrie assumed the EVP position that was vacated when Satya Nadella ascended to the role of Microsoft CEO. Guthrie, who is one of the company’s most popular technologists and leaders, assumes the role on what […]

The Eclipse Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary this week, moving from a consortium of companies championing a Java integrated development environment (IDE) to a multi-faceted organization that continues to set the tone for open-source software development with competing corporate entities providing governance. Originally created as a consortium when IBM released the Eclipse Platform into open […]

Inktank, the company delivering Ceph–a massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system–has announced a release upgrade to Inktank Ceph Enterprise. Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.1 brings new features for Calamari graphical manager, and this release is now certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. Inktank Ceph Enterprise combines the most stable version of Ceph for […]

Splunk, a provider of a popular big data analytics platform for real-time operational intelligence, has been busy on the developer front and is now announcing new developer features, including a plug-in for Eclipse. Developers can use the new Splunk Plug-in for Eclipse for building applications that use and extend Splunk, Jon Rooney, director of developer […]

Looking for a job in the IT world with flexible work options? According to a recent FlexJobs report, Java development is one of the top most in-demand flexible jobs. Java developer was fifth on the top 10 list of most in-demand flexible jobs, according to FlexJobs, which ranks telecommuting, freelance, part-time and flexible schedule jobs. […]

Coverity, a provider of software development testing solutions, announced two new integrations to help open-source software developers. The company announced two integrations for Coverity Scan, its cloud-based, open-source static analysis service. The new integrations will provide open-source software developers who are using GitHub and Travis CI with easier access to the Coverity Scan service, enabling […]

IBM and Twitter announced that in December Twitter acquired more than 900 patents from IBM and that the companies entered into a patent cross-license agreement. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. However, the agreement demonstrates that IBM’s vast portfolio of more than 41,000 U.S. patents has value for its clients, partners and other […]

IBM announced that it has shipped more than 10,000 PureSystems units since Big Blue introduced the machines in 2012. As organizations look to consolidate their existing data centers and shift more of their workloads to the cloud, IBM announced that this trend has helped fuel the growing momentum for the IBM PureSystems family of expert […]