Darryl K. Taft

IBM has announced its acquisition of Xtify, a New York City-based provider of cloud-based mobile messaging tools that help organizations improve mobile sales, drive in-store traffic and engage customers with personalized offers. While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, IBM has been flexing its muscles in the mobile space with its MobileFirst strategy, […]

Splunk Enterprise 6 Delivers Powerful, Fast Analytics to Business, IT Users by Darryl K. Taft Home Screen Splunk Enterprise 6 includes powerful productivity features for users with a completely redesigned user experience that delivers simpler, more intuitive actions. The new home experience is easy to personalize and gives users instant access to the data, apps […]

LAS VEGAS–Splunk announced the general availability of Splunk Cloud, a new service that delivers Splunk Enterprise in the cloud. Splunk Cloud is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and includes access to all the features of the Splunk Enterprise platform including apps, APIs, alerting and role-based access controls. Splunk Cloud also supports all core Splunk […]

LAS VEGAS–Splunk, a big data player that provides a software platform for real-time operational intelligence, announced the general availability of Splunk Enterprise 6, the latest version of the company’s platform for machine data. Splunk Enterprise 6 delivers powerful and fast analytics, up to 1,000 times faster than previous versions, and patent-pending technology designed to quickly […]

IBM and Deutsche Telekom announced a collaboration to deliver the IBM MobileFirst platform in the cloud to small and midsize (SMB) customers in Europe. Indeed, Deutsche Telekom’s developer platform—Developer Garden—has launched the new cloud service, the Developer Garden-powered IBM Worklight, which enables developers to quickly create apps for all mobile platforms and bring them to […]

Microsoft announced the launch of BrowserSwarm, a new open-source tool that helps Web developers automate testing of their JavaScript frameworks and libraries across devices and browsers. Developed in collaboration with AppendTo and Sauce Labs, BrowserSwarm is powered through the cloud, allowing developers to save time setting up multiple browser or device testing environments and precious […]

Nearly four out of 10 (or 39 percent of) developers working with big data applications say they believe a government agency is keeping track of the data that they create, collect or use, according to the findings of a new survey. More than one-third of developers polled believe they have reason to think the government […]

Microsoft Open Technologies (MS Open Tech) and Azul Systems announced the availability of Zulu for Windows Azure, Azul’s new build of the community-driven open source Java implementation, known as OpenJDK, for Windows Server on the Windows Azure platform. Announced at the JavaOne 2013 conference in San Francisco on Sept. 25, the Zulu technology preview is […]

Engine Yard, provider of a popular platform as a service (PaaS), announced support for Java in the cloud, an incremental step for the PaaS player that started out wedded to Ruby. Engine Yard launched in 2006 as a PaaS focused on Ruby on Rails. The platform expanded to support Ruby, JRuby, PHP, Node.js and now […]

IBM plans to invest $17 million in a new cloud data center located in Bogota, Colombia. This is the 25th cloud center IBM has opened globally. IBM said the new center will provide Colombian companies with cloud computing and big data services. The new facility expands the $8 million investment IBM made in Colombia when […]