Darryl K. Taft

Just a little more than two months after shipping Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft this week released the final version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 (VS 2013.1) Microsoft shipped Visual Studio 2013 in November and delivered a release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 in December. Now the devices and services giant has delivered […]

Once again, IBM missed its earnings targets as its fourth-quarter 2013 revenue dipped 5 percent, marking the fourth quarter in a row Big Blue has missed and the seventh consecutive quarter the company’s revenue has fallen. Hit hard by shortfalls in hardware sales – IBM’s Systems and Technology revenue declined 26 percent, the company announced […]

Trilibis, a maker of design technology for Web developers, announced a partnership with HP Autonomy to deliver mobility functionality to HP TeamSite customers. Trilibis officials said the company’s Software eNabling One Web (SNOW) technology will enable TeamSite-powered Websites to be device-aware and optimized for any mobile device, tablet or desktop browser. HP TeamSite helps marketers […]

Splunk, maker of a popular operational intelligence and real-time analytics platform, announced a key upgrade of its Splunk App for Enterprise Security, which allows users to detect cyber-attacks and zero in on and root out the attackers. Splunk App for Enterprise Security 3.0 features new visualizations that enable advanced threat detection, reducing the time to […]

IBM Adds to Its Cloud Arsenal via Innovation, Acquisition by Darryl K. Taft Innovation and Patent Leadership IBM developed a method for dynamically managing network bandwidth within a cloud, which could lead to significant improvements in overall system performance. For the invention, IBM received U.S. Patent #8,352,953: Dynamically Provisioning Virtual Machines—which provides a method for […]

CA Technologies announced CA Service Management, a new solution that brings a consumerlike experience to enterprise IT services and enables users to serve themselves. The new CA offering brings familiar Google search and Dropbox-like capabilities to business users to enhance the user experience, mobility, and collaboration between IT teams and employees to help attain IT […]

IBM has pledged to commit $1.2 billion to significantly expand its global cloud footprint, beefing up its SoftLayer infrastructure and other components. Big Blue said the investment includes a network of cloud centers designed to bring clients greater flexibility, transparency and control over how they manage their data, run their business and deploy their IT […]

NoSQL database provider MongoDB announced that its database management system is helping to improve big data decision making and risk management in the insurance industry. MongoDB said RMS, a provider of catastrophe risk modeling software, has selected MongoDB as the data store for RMS(one), RMS’ cloud-based, open, real-time risk management platform. RMS(one) centralizes massive amounts […]

IBM announced a new X6 architecture, which optimizes x86-based servers for analytics and cloud workloads. The X6 architecture is the sixth generation of IBM’s X-Architecture for System x and PureSystems servers and is fast, agile and resilient, IBM said. The architecture offers integrated flash storage for high-performance, modular design for long life cycles to help […]

Neo Technology, maker of the Neo4j graph database, has released Neo4j 2.0, which the company says will help bring graph databases to the masses. Neo announced an online training program along with the new release to help make the technology more approachable for mainstream users. A graph database is a database that uses graph structures […]