Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced two new technologies to help enterprises tackle big data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. At an event at its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., on April 3, IBM announced BLU Acceleration and the IBM PureData System for Hadoop. BLU Acceleration represents the […]

Ever-focused on advancing the Web, Mozilla’s research arm has joined forces with Samsung to create a new browser engine based on a new programming language called Rust. Mozilla Research is collaborating with Samsung to deliver an advanced technology Web browser engine called Servo that will take advantage of the faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing architectures on […]

Compuware announced the availability of the free Compuware APM Mobile Application Monitoring Service, a free solution that combines crash, performance and business analytics for native mobile applications. Compuware says it pioneered mobile APM, first delivering solutions more than three years ago. Users interested in gaining early access to the company’s new free offering can register […]

IBM Gets PureSystems Into the Market Since April 2012, more than 2,300 PureFlex systems have shipped to more than 77 nations, with strong adoption in global growth markets. With PureSystems, IBM has completely integrated all the technology components—virtualized servers, storage, networking and cloud management software—needed for a customer to turn on a secure private cloud […]

New data from Synergy Research Group shows that IBM’s share of the cloud infrastructure equipment market hit a two-year high in the fourth quarter of 2012, reaching just over 19 percent, thanks to a year-end jump in sales. Synergy said HP has seen its fortunes in the market gradually declining, but it too saw a […]

The adoption of Agile software development practices is on the rise as enterprises have begun to see benefits from implementing Agile into their development shops. However, the questions quickly become how much Agile actually pays off and even how much Agile is enough. The answers here are not so simple, as there is no one-size-fits-all […]

I was looking for something special to write about for enterprise developers, and I think Tasktop Technologies’ Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) announcement from EclipseCon this week fits the bill. Tasktop, which plays in the application lifecycle management (ALM) integration world, on March 25, announced its SLI initiative, which aims to address the growing fragmentation and […]

IBM has announced the winners of its 2012 Master the Mainframe contest, which is part of the company’s effort to prepare a new generation of workers with skills for the mainframe as it continues to evolve. IBM’s Master the Mainframe Contest, part of the company’s Academic Initiative, equips high school and college students with the […]

OpenOffice In the realm of robust, full-featured products, OpenOffice (and derivatives, such as LibreOffice and IBM Lotus Symphony) certainly belong on this list just because of its depth of functionality. These products may interest IT pros in situations where older versions of Office are still in use and money doesn’t exist to upgrade them, or […]

MapR Technologies, a Hadoop and big data specialist, and Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu OS, have teamed up to deliver an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR said they also are working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other […]