Darryl K. Taft

Bask in Agile’s Bright Light, but Don’t Be a Moth to a Flame Every software movement since the days of punch cards (or pre-Internet/pre-smartphone, for younger people) has had its share of acolytes, many of whom over-rotated on a good idea, upset existing processes and flirted with business disaster, all for wholesale, seemingly magical technical […]

IBM announced it is opening a new technology center in downtown Baton Rouge, La., that will bring 800 new jobs to the area. On March 27, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and IBM Senior Vice President Colleen Arnold revealed that IBM will establish the technology center on an old Baton Rouge Advocate newspaper site. The center […]

The Linux Foundation has announced the findings of its 2013 Enterprise End User Report that shows enterprises increasing their investment in Linux. The foundation’s report, “Linux Adoption: Third Annual Survey of World’s Largest Enterprise Linux Users,” is based on a study conducted in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. It tracks the growth of Linux use […]

Tasktop Technologies, a provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) integration solutions, recently announced its Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) initiative that aims to address the growing fragmentation and complexity enterprises face in large-scale software delivery. SLI is a new kind of infrastructure for connecting the software lifecycle to help enterprises achieve cross-discipline collaboration and lean ALM, […]

Microsoft has announced that its next developer conference, Build 2013, will take place June 26 through June 28 in San Francisco. This will be the third Build event for Microsoft, which launched the conference in 2011 in Anaheim, Calif., as an event to prepare developers for Windows 8. Last year, Microsoft held the Build 2012 […]

Achieve Enterprise Agility Throughout the Complete Lifecycle HP has extended its enterprise software strategy, adding new application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities as well as enhanced support for agile software development and project management. Traditional Delivery Is Risky The biggest problem with waterfall software development is that risks can be uncovered too late in the project […]

HP Makes ALM Work for the Enterprise Hewlett-Packard helps enterprises transform their application lifecycles to foster innovation. The Complexity of the Application Lifecycle Historically, ALM consisted of integrated, single-platform tool suites that managed the application lifecycle through requirements, testing, change impact and defect resolution. But this integrated approach did not align with business needs: Technology […]

IBM has announced new business consulting services and software aimed at helping decision makers predict and prevent damaging supply-chain disruptions. The Predictive Asset Optimization solution, which features IBM’s predictive analytics software and business consulting services, harnesses big data from instrumented assets and identifies irregularities in the manufacturing process, spots product irregularities and forecasts a range […]

IBM has announced a materials science breakthrough at the atomic level that could pave the way for a new class of non-volatile memory and logic chips that would use less power than today’s silicon-based devices, according to Big Blue. Rather than using conventional electrical means that operate today’s semiconducting devices, IBM’s scientists discovered a new […]

Genuitec, a maker of Eclipse-based tools, said it plans to release My Eclipse 2013, the Enterprise Anywhere edition with HTML5 support on April 1. With Enterprise Anywhere and MyEclipse 2013, Genuitec is bringing development and deployment of new and legacy apps to any mobile device. Genuitec will demonstrate MyEclipse 2013 at the EclipseCon 2013 conference, […]