Darryl K. Taft

IBM and United States Tennis Association announced they are using analytics, cloud computing, mobile and social technologies to bring the 2013 US Open to tennis fans. IBM and the USTA have collaborated for more than 20 years on a technology partnership that enables fans—no matter where they are located—to follow and examine every serve, volley […]

Teradata will host an online conference for Hadoop developers on Tuesday, Sept. 3. The event will be aimed at developers interested in the future of Hadoop. The conference will have industry guest speakers Chris Harris and Mike Whelan, two successful influencers of the IT industry that are familiar with Hadoop and developing for the platform. […]

Tech Toys for Breaking Bad’s Walter White and Other TV Tough Cookies by Darryl K. Taft Homeland When Nicholas Brody wanted to keep his terrorist past under wraps from the CIA, he hid significant documents on his PC. But what happens if these documents are lost? Brody is, as the term goes, SOL. With specific […]

Apple App Store Reshaped the Mobile Industry in 12 Major Ways By Darryl Taft Evolution of the iOS Family When iOS and Apple App store were launched five years ago, there was really only one smartphone that developers needed to worry about—the iPhone1. Since then, Apple has evolved every year and now has six OS […]

Appcelerator, which provides a mobile development platform, announced its acquisition of Singly, a Bay Area innovator in API integration management. Appcelerator said the acquisition bolsters its capabilities for opening data sources to make them readily consumable by mobile apps running on any device. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. To access data sources and […]

Application Security: 10 Reasons It Must Change to Remain Relevant by Darryl K. Taft Agile/DevOps Is the New Game The traditional waterfall development and delivery approach is (or should be) a thing of the past. Agile and DevOps approaches are driven by a real business need—to reduce the cycle time between the inception of an […]

Microsoft is doing all it can to help customers enable modern applications on the Microsoft platform—both cloud and on-premise. In an Aug. 21 blog post, Brad Anderson, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows Server and System Center, goes into detail on just how Microsoft is enabling modern applications with the Windows Azure Pack. Microsoft announced […]

Symplified, an identity-as-a-service solution provider, and Xamarin, a maker of cross-platform mobile application development tools, have entered into a partnership to make it easier for mobile developers to secure their enterprise applications running on iOS, Android and Windows Phone, as well as Mac desktops. Under the new partnership, the Symplified Mobile Developer SDK is now […]

Boundary, a provider of cloud-based services for Consolidated Operations Management, announced that its services are helping key enterprise customers, such as Dachis Group, optimize their cloud infrastructure. Brian Huddleston, vice president of development at Dachis, said Boundary is now monitoring the IT infrastructure at Dachis Group, a provider of data-driven social marketing software and services. […]

VoltDB, maker of a high-velocity database by the same name, announced that its new pricing program for startups is enabling new companies to speed up app development and bring technology to market sooner. The Billerica, Mass., database vendor said companies such as Auvik Networks, Koupon Media and Ten Penny Auctions are taking advantage of VoltDB’s […]