Darryl K. Taft

IDC has named IBM the global market share leader in application management services (AMS). IDC reported the ranking in its recently published study, “Worldwide and U.S. Application Management Services 2012 Vendor Shares: IDC’s Top 10 Vendors.” Since the inception of the report in 2007, IBM has earned the No. 1 ranking in consolidated AMS market […]

The Eclipse Foundation announced that its machine-to-machine (M2M) initiative, the EclipseM2M Working Group, has gained significant momentum—adding new projects and members and gaining commercial adoption. In an interview with eWEEK, Ian Skerrett, the director of marketing at the Eclipse Foundation, said the foundation is set on establishing an open-source software ecosystem for M2M and Internet […]

Microsoft announced an updated version of its modern.IE tools for Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview. When the Redmond, Wash.-based technology vendor announced the release of its Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7, the company also updated modern.IE, a set of tools and resources that make developing for the Web (and IE) just a […]

According to the IBM Online Retail Index, Q2 2013 consumer online spending was up 15 percent over the second quarter of 2012, with mobile shopping accounting for nearly 20 percent of overall sales–spurring retailers to begin to prepare for how mobile shopping might impact the holiday season. At 20 percent of overall online sales, mobile […]

IBM announced that its PureSystems family of systems and solutions beat out offerings from Hewlett-Packard and Dell to win a deal with Indian IT infrastructure services and solutions provider ESDS. IBM said ESDS selected IBM PureSystems to bring greater business efficiencies in their cloud architecture as well as provide hosting services for customers. “We selected […]

Tealium, a provider of enterprise tag management solutions and services, recently announced the integration of its digital data solution and tag management software with Splunk Enterprise. Tealium’s solution expands Splunk Enterprise to enable users to gather more than just server-side machine data to now collect client-side visitor interaction data directly from Websites, mobile Web and […]

IBM has announced new Digital Experience software that is designed to enable businesses to create customized digital experiences that enhance the way they engage with customers, employees and business partners. Aligned with IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative, the new software is aimed at enabling line-of-business employees from marketing, sales, human resources and customer loyalty to produce, […]

IBM announced QRadar Vulnerability Manager (QVM), an integrated security intelligence offering aimed at helping users identify key vulnerabilities in real-time, while reducing total cost of security operations. QRadar Vulnerability Manager is designed to give security officers a prioritized view across their entire network to enable them to quickly strengthen and fortify their defenses. By aggregating […]

With the platform-as-a-service market heating up, CloudBees, maker of a popular Java PaaS, announced the acquisition of FoxWeave, a provider of cloud-based data integration services. The acquisition brings native data migration and synchronization services to the CloudBees Platform and simplifies the way developers can compose services and weave them together with PaaS-hosted application logic—or what […]

EnterpriseDB, a provider of enterprise-class PostgreSQL products and Oracle database compatibility solutions, announced that several federal government agencies are turning away from commercial database vendors to EnterpriseDB to cut their database costs. Indeed, the company said shrinking budgets and ongoing battles in Congress have prompted U.S. government agencies to turn increasingly to open-source database options […]

Looking to expand the number and types of workloads that run on its Windows Azure cloud, Microsoft is partnering with Azul Systems to deliver an OpenJDK build for Windows Azure. At the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) on July 24, Microsoft Open Technologies (MS Open Tech), a subsidiary of Microsoft dedicated to bridging Microsoft and […]

IBM and Pivotal announced that the two companies will collaborate on further development of the Cloud Foundry platform and open-source project and work toward establishing an open governance model for the community. In essence, IBM has agreed to put its considerable weight behind Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry as the platform of choice for building cloud-based applications. […]