Darryl K. Taft

IBM’s acquisition of UrbanCode gives Big Blue an end-to-end story for software developers to take software production from the idea stage all the way through to delivered code. IBM on April 22 announced its acquisition of UrbanCode. Based in Cleveland, UrbanCode automates the delivery of software, helping businesses quickly release and update mobile, social, big […]

Opscode, provider of the Chef open-source automation platform, is wrapping up its second annual user conference, ChefConf, marking increased momentum for the company and platform, including partnerships with the likes of IBM and Microsoft. ChefConf 2013 ran April 24 through 26 in San Francisco, where a sell-out crowd of 700 attendees gathered for technical sessions, […]

SAP Innovation: How the Company Keeps Its Technology Moving Forward by Darryl K. Taft SAP HANA Provides Real-Time Insights on Big Data SAP HANA captures and analyzes transactional and analytical data in real time on a single data platform based on in-memory technology. It delivers speedy data analysis, solving problems across industries, including health, security, […]

SAP HANA is SAP AG‘s implementation of in-memory database technology. HANA DB takes advantage of the low cost of main memory (RAM), data processing abilities of multi-core processors and the fast data access of solid-state drives relative to traditional hard drives to deliver better performance of analytical and transactional applications. It offers a multi-engine query-processing […]

Opscode, the maker of Chef, an open-source automation platform, has announced it is collaborating with IBM to bring the power of Opscode Chef and the Open Source Chef Community to enterprise businesses. IBM will support Chef Server in IBM SmartCloud. IBM SmartCloud is built on an open architecture for flexibility and interoperability, leveraging open-source communities, […]

Using a unique combination of augmented reality and robotics, IBM has developed a new system to deliver information and remote expertise to field engineers performing maintenance and repairs on critical equipment. IBM Research scientists announced a new mobile maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) prototype which is designed to help manufacturers and companies supplying and maintaining […]

IBM announced its involvement in a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2,000 times and converting 80 percent of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The effort to develop a High Concentration Photovoltaic Thermal (HCPVT) system is funded by a three-year, $2.4 million grant from the Swiss Commission for […]

IBM announced that for the fourth consecutive year, market research firm IDC has ranked IBM number one in worldwide market share for enterprise social software. According to IDC, the worldwide enterprise social market segment reached 1 billion in 2012, representing growth of 25 percent over 2011. “Businesses today are operating in the social age where […]

In 2011, Charles Boicey looked at Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo and other major Web entities and said to himself, “Why do those guys get to have all the fun?” Boicey, an informatics solutions architect at the UC Irvine Medical Center, said he could very much see that the underlying big data technologies driving the big Web […]

IBM and Infor, a business software maker, have announced an agreement for Infor to offer its enterprise application software through IBM’s public, private and hybrid SmartCloud services. Infor offers enterprise software solutions for CRM, supply-chain management, enterprise asset management and more, which will now be available through IBM’s cloud offerings. Infor’s business application software serves […]