Darryl K. Taft

IBM Fellows of 2013 Include Experts in Data Analytics, Supercomputers by Darryl K. Taft 50 Years Ago Thomas Watson Jr. Announced the First Class of IBM Fellows In 1963, the IBM Fellows program was launched by then-CEO Thomas Watson Jr. to serve a specific purpose beyond recognizing technical excellence. The company’s most brilliant scientists and […]

Adobe announced the general availability of Adobe Primetime, which brings TV content to connected screens, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas. Adobe Primetime, formerly “Project Primetime,” is an advanced TV publishing and monetization platform for programmers and pay TV service providers. In an April 9 blog post, Stefan Offermann, an […]

IBM announced that—based on Gartner’s definition of the application infrastructure and middleware market—the technology company has been named the overall market share leader for 2012. This marks the 12th year in a row that IBM has taken the leading spot for middleware. According to the Gartner report: Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2012, IBM […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache Struts 1 has reached its end of life (EOL) and is no longer officially supported. With Struts 1 now at the EOL stage, Apache is recommending Struts 2 as an open-source, extensible successor framework for creating enterprise-ready Java Web applications. Created in 2000 to provide an […]

As Agile software development practices like continuous integration catch on in development shops, vendors are moving in to provide tooling and support to the developer community. Continuous integration (CI) is the practice, in software engineering, of merging all developer workspaces with a shared mainline several times a day. It was first named and proposed as […]

Accenture has launched its new Cloud Platform and has pledged to invest more than $400 million in cloud capabilities to help clients implement digital technologies to drive greater flexibility, innovation and growth. As more and more clients are going digital, the Accenture Cloud Platform provides services and solutions designed to help organizations integrate and manage […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–With the threat of cyber-security breaches impacting the electric power sector increasing, IBM has come up with a set of best practices for energy and utility organizations to adopt and live by. At an event featuring leaders from various parts of the electric power ecosystem here, IBM opened up the floor for discussion about […]

IBM announced that The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling, University of Warsaw (ICM) of Poland is using an IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer to gather and process biomedical big data. Code-named Nostromo, the IBM machine is the most powerful single-architecture supercomputer in Poland, and it is supporting one of the country’s key biomedical and […]

IBM announced a key expansion of its SmartCloud for Social Business capabilities with the opening of a new IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Data Center in Europe. The new data center, based in Germany, will serve the needs of IBM’s customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) who face the regulatory and compliance […]

Microsoft announced that it has released Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2), the latest version of its flagship software development tool suite. The new release adds features and improvements in five main categories: Agile planning, quality enablement, line-of-business development, Windows Store development and developer experience. Consistent with Microsoft’s commitment to releasing updates on a shorter […]