Darryl K. Taft

IBM said its 10-year, multi-billion deal with UniCredit is representative of the kind of services deals the giant systems maker expects to see over the next several years. In a call with the press to discuss the deal announced July 18, Dennis Quan, vice president in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise in the company’s Global Technology Services […]

Citing a decline in the PC market, Microsoft missed analyst estimates of its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 earnings, announced July 18. Microsoft announced quarterly revenue of $19.90 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $6.07 billion, $4.97 billion and $0.59 per share, […]

Apigee, which refers to itself as the API company, has launched a new platform to help enterprises monetize their APIs, the Apigee Enterprise – Monetization Services. Apigee officials said this new offering that makes it easy for customers to maximize the business value and foster rapid growth of their API-based digital initiatives. Apigee Monetization Services […]

IBM beat expectations in its second-quarter 2013 earnings, despite a shortfall of 12 percent in its Systems and Technology revenue. Excluding a $1 billion “workforce rebalancing” charge, IBM exceeded analyst expectations and reported earnings per share(EPS) of $3.91, which beat analyst expectations of $3.77 per share. With the restructuring, IBM net income dropped 17 percent, […]

Sencha, a provider of HTML5 development tools for building desktop and mobile applications, has announced Sencha Space, a secure and managed environment for deploying mobile HTML5 business applications. In an interview with eWEEK, Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha, called Space the “missing link” to multi-device app development and management. He said Space is a key […]

Less than half of all developers use a security development process when building applications, according to a recent Microsoft study. In a blog post, Tim Rains, director of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing effort, said results of a Microsoft study conducted by ComScore showed that security was not considered a “top priority” by 42 percent of developers […]

IBM has transformed its training business from an internal IBM-run model to a partner-led one, farming its IT training capability out to four key channel partners. Big Blue has long offered a comprehensive portfolio of technical training and education services designed for individuals, companies and public organizations to acquire, maintain and optimize their IT skills […]

Amazon Web Services announced the availability of MapR M7 on Amazon Elastic MapReduce. MapR Technologies’ M7 is a big data platform, now available through Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), that provides ease of use, dependability and greater performance of NoSQL and Apache Hadoop applications. Amazon EMR makes it easy and cost-effective to deploy and operate elastic […]

Microsoft Highlights New Ways for Partners, Customers to Embrace Cloud by Darryl K. Taft George R. Brown Convention Center Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center gets gussied up for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2013. Microsoft Takes Over Microsoft takes over downtown Houston as 15,000 partners from all over the world converge on the […]

Microsoft’s Reorg: Who Will Take the Lead in Massive Corporate Shakeup by Darryl K. Taft CEO: Steve Ballmer Ballmer retains his role as CEO and architect of this reorg. Despite the increasing buzz from a subsection of the crowd of onlookers and shareholders calling for his head, Ballmer remains firmly in control of Microsoft. The […]