Darryl K. Taft

How IBM Cloud Is Fueling the Next Generation of Cognitive Startups IBM Bluemix is helping companies of all sorts build more intuitive applications using Watson cognitive analytics. Here are some interesting examples. Meeka Developed in just three weeks on Bluemix with Watson APIs, Meeka is a wedding planning mobile app created by Brazilian startup Macasei. […]

IBM continues to push its cognitive agenda, now with a focus on delivering cognitive computing technology to the medical supply chain. IBM has joined forces with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to inject cognitive analytics into the supply chain, including taking a minority stake in Pensiamo, a new company UPMC formed to help […]

IBM this week informed its employees in the Netherlands that a layoff is coming and it will begin Sept. 1. According to an email leaked to the “Watching IBM” page on Facebook, IBM will initiate what it calls a Workforce Rebalancing program in the Netherlands to remain competitive in the market. News of a layoff […]

5 Steps on the Journey to Modern BI Modern business intelligence platforms go deeper than traditional models, asking the important questions about how and why something happened. Fluid Data Discovery The analytics workflow is an important aspect of getting the fastest time-to-insight. Analysis is much faster in modern BI in which it is iterative and […]

IBM Research has launched a new Experimentation-as-a-Service offering that enables users to create demos of products and services and host them on the IBM Cloud. Experimentation as a Service is not a new thing; other cloud computing infrastructure providers such as Microsoft and Amazon have taken a crack at this issue. Experimentation as a Service […]

The creators of the Scrum method of Agile software development have introduced a new version of The Scrum Guide. Scrum.org, an organization focused on improving software delivery through training, certification assessments and community, with Scrum Inc., a leading Scrum training and consulting provider, have updated The Scrum Guide, according to Scrum co-creators Ken Schwaber and […]

With the explosion of big data and companies mining it for analytics and insights, developers are working on more big data projects than ever. In fact, more than a third—36 percent—of all developers who are working on big data or advanced analytics projects are using elements of machine learning, according to a recent Evans Data […]

Brexit: Now What? What Your Company Needs to Know It’s unclear how the British exit from the EU will affect the global economy, but this eWEEK slide show suggests five things for organizations to think about. Recruiting Talent Tech companies with offices in the United Kingdom might have trouble finding and hiring enough skilled engineers […]

IBM has joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a Washington, D.C.-based digital asset and blockchain trade association, as an executive committee member. The chamber is a lobby that works with policymakers and regulators to foster innovation, jobs and investment in the blockchain opportunity. Blockchain is a permissionless distributed database based on the Bitcoin protocol that […]

7 Mobile App Dev Vulnerabilities That Can Cost You an Arm and a Leg The popularity of mobile apps and rise of cyber-criminals lurking in the mobile space means companies must take more precautions to build secure apps. Authentication/Authorization Authentication and authorization vulnerabilities allow malicious users to execute tasks, such as impersonating and performing operations […]

This week at its MongoDB World conference in New York, MongoDB announced the MongoDB Connector for Apache Spark, which enables developers and data scientists to get real-time analytics from fast-moving data. The product is now available for users to run analytics and glean insights from live, operational and streaming data. MongoDB worked closely with Databricks, […]

Shawn Murray was perfectly happy as the senior director of Azure digital sales at Microsoft, as he had been with the company for 18 years—continually moving up the ladder. Then Murray got a glimpse of what IBM was doing with its Bluemix platform and its outreach to developers, and he decided to make a change. […]