Darryl K. Taft

INETCO Systems, a provider of network-based application performance monitoring (APM) software, announced its latest APM release, INETCO Insight 5.3. The new release makes it easier and faster for IT operations teams to isolate enterprise service issues in service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications deployed within private, public and hybrid cloud environments. Version 5.3 is now available for […]

Equinix’s Newest D.C. Data Center: A Walk-Through by Darryl K. Taft Equinix DC11 Expands Largest Data Center Campus DC11, a new state-of-the-art Equinix data center in the Washington, D.C., metro area, expands the largest Internet exchange in North America and the largest Equinix campus in the world. Equinix Data Center Expansion to Continue DC11 is […]

Adobe announced that it has acquired privately held Ideacodes, a creative consultancy, based in San Francisco. Terms of Adobe’s deal to acquire Ideacodes, which specializes in the design and user experience of smart applications, digital products and networked communities, were not disclosed. “For the last nine years we’ve worked to re-envision the design of digital […]

Equinix, a global interconnection and data center company, announced the opening of its new Washington, D.C., data center known as DC11 at a major ceremony earlier this month. The new data center at the Equinix campus in Ashburn, Va., adds to existing data center property on the site and makes the Ashburn campus the largest […]

Syncsort, a provider of big data integration and protection solutions, recently announced the availability of its Spring ’13 release, including two brand-new Hadoop products and enhancements to its DMX technology that turn Hadoop into an easy-to-use extract, transform and load (ETL) solution. Big data is prompting organizations to look at Hadoop to process more data […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—IBM and Perficient, a technology consulting firm, have teamed to work with The Men’s Wearhouse to help it better engage customers and improve productivity through a Smarter Commerce approach that puts the clients’ customers at the center of their operations. Perficient joined IBM in sharing some of its best practices at the IBM Smarter […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—IBM has announced a four-year contract with CEVA Logistics, a global supply chain management company, to accelerate business delivery results for CEVA’s customers through a new cloud-based information exchange for its supply network. Announced at the IBM Smarter Commerce Summit 2013 here, this solution is a combination of CEVA’s technology and an element of […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—When The Dannon Company needs to figure out the proper blend of yogurt products to increase its bottom line, it takes a big dip of IBM analytics technology. At its Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2013 here, IBM announced that Dannon, one of the top-selling yogurt companies in the U.S., is using IBM’s cloud-based predictive […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—At its Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2013 here, IBM announced a study that says companies with high performing procurement organizations are driving better bottom-line results. According to the study, these organizations report profit margins of 7.12 percent as compared with just 5.83 percent for companies with low performing procurement organizations. Also, companies with top […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—IBM is calling on its Watson cognitive system supercomputer to help enterprises rapidly sift through big data to provide better service to customers and users. At the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2013 here, the company on May 21 unveiled its new Watson Engagement Advisor. According to the company, it’s a technology breakthrough that […]