Darryl K. Taft

IBM has taken its Watson cognitive computing system on a road trip to the West Coast to tap students at the University of Southern California for new ideas and innovation based on the supercomputer’s capabilities. Two years after seeing it challenge human competitors on “Jeopardy,” IBM is putting Watson to work in ways that will […]

SALT LAKE CITY–Adobe announced it has improved the ability for digital marketing professionals to work with creative professionals by linking the Adobe Marketing Cloud with the Adobe Creative Cloud. Part of this comes in the fact that Adobe announced the availability of a new Digital Asset Management (DAM) offering within its Adobe Experience Manager, a […]

IBM’s Ginni Rometty gave her first public speech since becoming CEO last year and she totally delivered. Not to say I was surprised; I wasn’t. Turned out in all black and subtly accessorized – to a T – Rometty did IBM proud, speaking for IBMers worldwide, chanting the company’s core values as eagerly and sincerely […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Adobe said more Web users are employing tablets than smartphones to visit Websites, view content and conduct commerce online, and companies might be more inclined to optimize tablet content to provide for a more engaging Website experience. At its Adobe Summit 2013 here, Adobe released the latest information from its Adobe Digital Index, […]

In her first public speech since becoming CEO of IBM, Virginia “Ginni” Rometty showed the world what IBMers have known for years: That she is a force to be reckoned with. A poised and polished Rometty spoke at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York City March 7 and discussed […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Adobe announced a new predictive marketing workflow in Adobe Analytics that enables marketers to quickly identify and target high-value audiences in minutes. The company made the predictive analytics announcement about Adobe Analytics, a key element of Adobe Marketing Cloud, at its digital marketing conference, Adobe Summit 2013, held here March 4 to 8. […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Adobe Systems has added mobile marketing capabilities to each of the five solutions in the Adobe Marketing Cloud. Adobe customers now have access to new mobile capabilities for analytics, social app development, targeting content on smartphones and tablets, advertising and mobile content management and delivery, the company announced at its Adobe Summit 2013 […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Adobe Systems unveiled a new social-enabled user interface for Adobe Marketing Cloud and announced that the marketing cloud now links with the Adobe Creative Cloud. The Adobe Marketing Cloud provides data and insights to marketers that enable them to gauge the impact of their marketing dollars more easily and to understand how campaigns […]

LAS VEGAS – IBM’s new OpenStack-based SmartCloud Orchestrator is a big win for Chef, the open-source systems integration and management framework. As part of its announcement of IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator, Big Blue also announced support for Chef and Chef recipes, which prompted at least one analyst and open-source software watcher to gush over the news. […]

IBM’s Systems and Technology Group Pitches Servers, Storage, Services to Partners At the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference Feb. 25 to 28, Rod Adkins, IBM’s senior vice president of the IBM Systems and Technology Group (STG), explained how IBM is beating the competition with its Power systems, PureSystems and storage systems to give partners superior technology […]