Darryl K. Taft

Adobe’s announcement that it is shifting everything to its Creative Cloud subscription program is a move that excites the longtime design software maker, but it is not very welcome to some customers. At Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, in Los Angeles on May 6, Adobe announced that the company will focus creative software development efforts […]

CloudShare, a provider of virtual environments in the cloud, has announced CloudShare Labs, a new self-service solution for agile application development and testing. CloudShare officials said the solution expands the company’s platform to meet the growing demand for customized IT environments. CloudShare Labs is the newest of CloudShare’s integrated suite of self-service solutions for creating, […]

Jelastic, a provider of a Java and PHP cloud hosting platform, has announced the integration of the Jelastic platform with NetBeans IDE, one of the most popular integrated development environments for Java development. With the new Jelastic plug-in for the NetBeans IDE, users can access their development, test and production deployments without leaving their familiar […]

Klocwork, a maker of automated source-code analysis (SCA) solutions, has announced Klocwork Cahoots, a new peer code review tool that simplifies the code review process. Known for delivering tools to help programmers develop more secure software, Klocwork unveils Cahoots, as a language-agnostic tool designed for development teams of all sizes. Cahoots fits into the developer […]

IBM recently announced enhancements to its IBM PureSystems family of expert integrated systems that improve disaster recovery capabilities. New features enable enterprises that are accelerating cloud deployments using IBM PureApplication System to get disaster recovery services up and running in four clicks. IBM announced these enhancements at its IBM Impact 2013 conference in Las Vegas. […]

Cloudera, a provider of Apache Hadoop solutions for the enterprise, recently announced the general availability of Cloudera Impala, its open-source, interactive SQL query engine for analyzing data stored in Hadoop clusters in real time. Cloudera claims to have been first to market with a SQL-on-Hadoop offering, releasing Impala to open source as a public beta […]

IBM’s MessageSight: Unboxing the New Machine-to-Machine Appliance by Darryl K. Taft IBM MessageSight Unboxed and Operational in 30 minutes This demo will show that IBM’s new MessageSight appliance can be unboxed and set up in 30 minutes. Thinking Inside the Box Here’s a new IBM MessageSight appliance inside its box with the seals newly broken. […]

Ever busy working on projects that others only dream about, IBM scientists unveiled the world’s smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. The movie, named “A Boy and His Atom,” used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action, and was verified as the […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM unveiled new business process and integration software and services that will enable enterprise organizations to accelerate adoption of core technologies of the day, including big data, cloud, mobile and social business technologies. In addition to announcing the MessageSight, an appliance designed to help organizations manage and communicate with the billions of mobile devices […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM announced new software, hardware and services in support of its Smarter Planet strategy, including an extension of its MobileFirst initiative, at the IBM Impact 2013 conference held here April 28 to May 2. IBM extended its MobileFirst portfolio with the introduction of new mobile analytics capabilities and cloud services that enable users to […]