Darryl K. Taft

DataStax, provider of a big data platform based on Apache Cassandra, has announced new versions of its enterprise-grade and community-edition database software, along with a new round of funding to help to grow its business. In an interview with eWEEK, Jonathan Ellis, DataStax co-founder and Apache Cassandra project chair, said the new software versions offer […]

IBM has announced a new entry-level mainframe system that suits businesses of all sizes, the zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12). The new mainframe builds on IBM’s decades of experience in enterprise computing and is designed for the latest in analytics, cloud, and mobile computing. Moreover, starting at $75,000, IBM is making one of the most secure and […]

IBM Extends Its Banking Tech Expertise Into Emerging Markets By Darryl K. Taft IBM’s Banking Push Into Growth Markets IBM has been aggressively selling its banking infrastructure in emerging economies, with key wins in Africa, South America and Asia, among other areas. Saigon Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank Vietnam has a labor force of more […]

Oracle has announced new releases in its Java Embedded family of products that are aimed at helping Java power machine-to-machine (M2M) environments and the Internet of Things. At the JavaOne Shanghai 2013 conference, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) Embedded 3.3 and Oracle Java ME Software Development Kit (SDK) […]

SUSE has launched a beta release of SUSE Cloud 2.0 to give users an early look at the company’s latest enterprise-ready technology for building private clouds. Announced at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2013 (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., SUSE Cloud 2.0 is based on the open-source OpenStack Grizzly release–the latest version of the OpenStack project. […]

IBM is enabling Android mobile device users to share their device power to assist researchers in solving some of the world’s great challenges. With the new capability, Android device users can empower IBM research projects and other scientific efforts such as fighting AIDS and discovering new stars. IBM announced that for the first time, owners […]

Cloudant, a provider of a distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), announced that it has delivered on its promise to integrate core capabilities of its distributed database service to the open-source Apache CouchDB project. CouchDB serves as the foundation of Cloudant’s technology stack in the form of BigCouch, an open-source variant of CouchDB that the company developed to […]

AppScale Systems has announced the release of the App Inventor Cloud Appliance, which the company refers to as a private cloud in a box. The makers of the AppScale Cloud Platform, an open source runtime system for Web applications and mobile application back ends, announced the appliance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s App Inventor […]

IBM said its 10-year, multi-billion deal with UniCredit is representative of the kind of services deals the giant systems maker expects to see over the next several years. In a call with the press to discuss the deal announced July 18, Dennis Quan, vice president in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise in the company’s Global Technology Services […]

Citing a decline in the PC market, Microsoft missed analyst estimates of its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 earnings, announced July 18. Microsoft announced quarterly revenue of $19.90 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $6.07 billion, $4.97 billion and $0.59 per share, […]

Apigee, which refers to itself as the API company, has launched a new platform to help enterprises monetize their APIs, the Apigee Enterprise – Monetization Services. Apigee officials said this new offering that makes it easy for customers to maximize the business value and foster rapid growth of their API-based digital initiatives. Apigee Monetization Services […]

IBM beat expectations in its second-quarter 2013 earnings, despite a shortfall of 12 percent in its Systems and Technology revenue. Excluding a $1 billion “workforce rebalancing” charge, IBM exceeded analyst expectations and reported earnings per share(EPS) of $3.91, which beat analyst expectations of $3.77 per share. With the restructuring, IBM net income dropped 17 percent, […]