Darryl K. Taft

IBM continues to transform itself by going after higher-value opportunities, and Big Blue is moving into these new spaces with its ecosystem of business partners in tow. The company is looking at three primary imperatives: to lead in the new era of computing, to reach new kinds of clients and to demonstrate new types of […]

Cloud Sherpas, a cloud service brokerage, has launched a new open-source Python framework for custom development on Google App Engine. The new framework, known as “Ferris,” empowers millions of developers worldwide and reduces the time and cost associated with building cloud and mobile applications on the Google platform. The framework is dubbed “Ferris” in a […]

At its annual investor briefing, IBM chairman, president and CEO Ginni Rometty announced IBM is increasing its previously stated 2015 revenue target for analytics and big data from $16 billion to $20 billion. Business analytics is one of IBM’s strategic growth initiatives — along with cloud computing, Smarter Planet and emerging Growth Markets — that […]

LAS VEGAS – IBM announced a collaborative arrangement with LabelSneak, a small online retailer of discounted designer menswear that is using IBM Smarter Commerce technologies to create unique shopping experiences aimed at the millennial consumer. Essentially, LabelSneak is using big data to glean insight into what millennial men are looking for in terms of clothing, […]

LAS VEGAS — IBM announced that The Cheesecake Factory is using IBM big data analytics to help deliver the highest quality experience to its customers. With 180 restaurants — more than 175 restaurant locations across the United States and three licensed locations in the Middle East – and serving more than 80 million guests each […]

LAS VEGAS — IBM announced that it is launching a new set of global initiatives to arm its ecosystem of business partners to embrace cloud, mobile and big data analytics technologies to generate new revenue streams with new buyers such as the chief marketing officer, chief of police and the chief financial officer. IBM made […]

Secreted on one of the floors at 590 Madison Ave. in New York City is a team any number of major business-to-business companies probably wish they had in place: IBM’s strategic big data marketing team. No, it’s not the team that markets big data, but the team that includes both marketing and IT people working […]

IBM and Deutsche Telekom have announced a new partnership to deliver an integrated solutions portfolio that enables cities to make better use of their services through intelligent data capture and analysis. The jointly delivered Smarter Cities solutions will build on IBM’s expertise from thousands of smarter city engagements combined with Deutsche Telekom’s Machine-to-Machine (M2M) capabilities, […]

Toyota Racing Development (TRD) USA, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., is using Windows 8 technology to literally drive racers and crews in NASCAR competitions, such as the Daytona 500. TRD, which serves as the North American racing arm for design, development and assembly of Toyota’s factory racing engines and chassis, worked with Microsoft […]

Red Hat has announced general availability of the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4. With this release RHEL has been optimized for performance, stability and flexibility, and designed to help organizations manage their workloads across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux introduces several […]

Vertascale, a big data software developer, has announced the opening of its private beta for the company’s first product, SimpleSearch—a solution designed for big data queries. SimpleSearch is a real-time query and analysis engine for structured and mix-structured data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or the Hadoop File System (HDFS). Vertascale said SimpleSearch, […]

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