Darryl K. Taft

Looking to expand the number and types of workloads that run on its Windows Azure cloud, Microsoft is partnering with Azul Systems to deliver an OpenJDK build for Windows Azure. At the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) on July 24, Microsoft Open Technologies (MS Open Tech), a subsidiary of Microsoft dedicated to bridging Microsoft and […]

IBM and Pivotal announced that the two companies will collaborate on further development of the Cloud Foundry platform and open-source project and work toward establishing an open governance model for the community. In essence, IBM has agreed to put its considerable weight behind Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry as the platform of choice for building cloud-based applications. […]

DataStax, provider of a big data platform based on Apache Cassandra, has announced new versions of its enterprise-grade and community-edition database software, along with a new round of funding to help to grow its business. In an interview with eWEEK, Jonathan Ellis, DataStax co-founder and Apache Cassandra project chair, said the new software versions offer […]

IBM has announced a new entry-level mainframe system that suits businesses of all sizes, the zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12). The new mainframe builds on IBM’s decades of experience in enterprise computing and is designed for the latest in analytics, cloud, and mobile computing. Moreover, starting at $75,000, IBM is making one of the most secure and […]

IBM Extends Its Banking Tech Expertise Into Emerging Markets By Darryl K. Taft IBM’s Banking Push Into Growth Markets IBM has been aggressively selling its banking infrastructure in emerging economies, with key wins in Africa, South America and Asia, among other areas. Saigon Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank Vietnam has a labor force of more […]

Oracle has announced new releases in its Java Embedded family of products that are aimed at helping Java power machine-to-machine (M2M) environments and the Internet of Things. At the JavaOne Shanghai 2013 conference, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) Embedded 3.3 and Oracle Java ME Software Development Kit (SDK) […]

SUSE has launched a beta release of SUSE Cloud 2.0 to give users an early look at the company’s latest enterprise-ready technology for building private clouds. Announced at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2013 (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., SUSE Cloud 2.0 is based on the open-source OpenStack Grizzly release–the latest version of the OpenStack project. […]

IBM is enabling Android mobile device users to share their device power to assist researchers in solving some of the world’s great challenges. With the new capability, Android device users can empower IBM research projects and other scientific efforts such as fighting AIDS and discovering new stars. IBM announced that for the first time, owners […]

Cloudant, a provider of a distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), announced that it has delivered on its promise to integrate core capabilities of its distributed database service to the open-source Apache CouchDB project. CouchDB serves as the foundation of Cloudant’s technology stack in the form of BigCouch, an open-source variant of CouchDB that the company developed to […]

AppScale Systems has announced the release of the App Inventor Cloud Appliance, which the company refers to as a private cloud in a box. The makers of the AppScale Cloud Platform, an open source runtime system for Web applications and mobile application back ends, announced the appliance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s App Inventor […]