Darryl K. Taft

CloudBees, provider of a Java platform as a service (PaaS), announced upgraded support for GlassFish v3 while also making Java EE 7 immediately available to developers. Oracle announced the availability of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) and GlassFish 4 on June 12. CloudBees claims to be the first PaaS provider to offer […]

IBM Puts DevOps to Work by Darryl K. Taft Put Development Closer to Operations Delivering quality software on time and on target isn’t easy. A large chunk of time is often spent troubleshooting application issues in test and production. And the resulting bottlenecks can stifle progress and innovation. With mobile, social, big data and cloud […]

Oracle and the Java Community Process (JCP) announced the availability of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) and the Java EE 7 Software Development Kit (SDK). Java EE 7 features a scalable infrastructure that facilitates building HTML5 applications by reducing response times through low-latency, bidirectional communication with WebSockets; simplifying data parsing and exchange […]

SmartBear Software, a provider of quality-assurance products for developers and testers, has announced a new version of TestComplete, its tool for testing Web and HTML5 applications. The new version of TestComplete features several upgrades over the previous release, including support for Sencha Ext JS, a popular HTML5/JavaScript framework for building rich Internet applications. The latest […]

Red Hat has announced the availability of OpenShift Online, its public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud offering, beginning June 11. The company also announced an expansion of its ecosystem for OpenShift. Since its debut in developer preview in 2011, more than 1 million applications have been created on OpenShift Online. This new offering gives Red Hat a […]

IBM announced a series of enhancements across its systems portfolio that are designed to help organizations adopt cloud computing as they build toward software-defined environments (SDE). At its IBM Edge 2013 conference in Las Vegas on June 10, IBM announced enhancements to the company’s Smarter Storage line of flash, disk and tape systems, new high-performance […]

No strangers to major scientific breakthroughs, IBM researchers have again pushed the technologic envelope–this time inventing a new semiconductor solution that brings together four integrated circuits (ICs) and 64 antennas in a single package for mobile and transportation systems. IBM officials said Big Blue scientists–in an effort partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects […]

Compuware recently announced the release of its new PureStack Technology, the company’s solution to expose how IT infrastructure conditions impede the performance of critical business applications. The new PureStack Technology works with Compuware’s dynaTrace PurePath Technology to correlate guest and host infrastructure health to individual application transactions and affected users in real-time. This new Compuware […]

Jelastic, provider of a platform as a service (PaaS) for Java and PHP apps, has bolstered its development team with the addition of a former Microsoft architect and developer. Jelastic announced that Mark Zbikowski, a former Microsoft software architect and prominent software developer with more than 30 years of experience, is joining the Palo Alto, […]

Mirantis, an OpenStack systems integrator, announced that Ericsson, Red Hat and SAP Ventures, along with existing investor WestSummit Capital, have invested $10 million in the second round of Series A financing for Mirantis since December. This investment brings the total capital raised by the company to $20 million. Mirantis previously raised $10 million in December […]