Darryl K. Taft

System z “Over the past nine years, IBM and our clients that require mission-critical IT skills have worked with schools around the world to teach enterprise computing as part of the IBM System z Academic Initiative. Skilled students entering the job market have a vibrant ecosystem that allows them to continue to enhance their skills […]

NEW YORK – Windows 8 will be the catalyst for a major shift in the enterprise, but not necessarily in a way Microsoft would like, according to Salesforce.com’s leader. Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com reiterated his notion that the Windows era is over and said Windows 8 will be the key turning point […]

NEW YORK – Salesforce.com brought its Dreamforce event east to New York to hammer home its message that “business is social” to enterprise customers and partners in the Big Apple. At the New York event, known as Cloudforce 2012, Salesforce.com set forth is social business agenda and introduced some new pieces to its cloud computing […]

Microsoft reported a 22 percent decline in profit and a dip of 8 percent in revenues for its first fiscal quarter of 2013, as the company prepares for the launch of Windows 8 on Oct. 26. The software giant said the decline came as customers put off purchases to wait for Windows 8, which is […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache OpenOffice has graduated from the Apache incubator to become a top-level project (TLP). Though relatively new to Apache, the OpenOffice open-source office productivity software suite has been around for more than 25 years. The technology started out as StarOffice—created by Star Division—in 1984. Sun Microsystems acquired […]

Teradata has announced its Aster Big Analytics Appliance, which brings together open-source Apache Hadoop and Teradata Aster into a single, integrated and optimized appliance. Leveraging Teradata Aster SQL-MapReduce and Aster SQL-H, the Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance offers users access to Hadoop and provides business analytics to a broad set of knowledge workers. The appliance […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced third-quarter revenue of $24.7 billion, down 5 percent from the same quarter last year. Despite the dip in revenue, IBM delivered net income of $3.9 billion, which indicates flat growth compared with the same period a year ago. Bright spots for IBM in the third quarter included Smarter Planet, cloud and […]

Hadapt, provider of a big data analytics solution, has announced version 2.0 of its Adaptive Analytical Platform. Cambridge, Mass.-based Hadapt said the new release features interactive applications on Hadoop via Hadapt Interactive Query, which the company claims is an industry first. Version 2 of the platform also features the Hadapt Development Kit (HDK) for custom […]

IBM announced that it has appointed one of its staff attorneys as the company’s chief privacy officer. Christina Peters, who has worked as a practicing attorney at IBM since 1996, has been appointed to the role, which IBM initiated in 2000. Peters will guide and oversee IBM’s global information policy and practices affecting more than […]

JSON Expertise in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is the No. 1 skill sought after on CyberCoders. JSON is a text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange. It is derived from the JavaScript scripting language for representing simple data structures and associative arrays, called objects.– Job types associated with this skill: Web developer– Average salary […]

Quant5, a predictive customer analytics software as a service (SaaS) startup, and Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, have teamed up to help users prepare for the onslaught of big data. The two companies have joined forces to begin to educate businesses on strategies for increasing profits and operational efficiencies by […]

Analytics and business intelligence software provider SAS has announced that its High-Performance Analytics Server now supports even more analytics, including text mining and optimization. In addition, the predictive modeling capabilities of SAS High-Performance Analytics Server will now also use the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), the popular open-source big data infrastructure, SAS officials said. In-memory […]