Darryl K. Taft

Forrester Research has cited IBM as a leader in enterprise mobility services for the role IBM Interactive is playing in delivering key mobile services to customers. In its February 2013 report, The Forrester Wave Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013, Forrester gave IBM the highest score possible on its current offering. Based on an analysis of […]

62 Percent Almost two-thirds—62 percent of—respondents to Microsoft’s big data survey said they currently store at least 100 terabytes of data. Double Down Nearly one-third, or 32 percent, of respondents said they expect the amount of data they store to double in the next two to three years. BI Needed Forty-nine percent rated managing data […]

Adobe delivered a new wave of HTML5 tooling to its Creative Cloud subscribers with a set of new Web design and development offerings. The design tools leader announced the first public preview of Adobe Edge Reflow, a new responsive tool for Web designers and developers creating Websites and content for screens of virtually all sizes. […]

Rally Software, a provider of agile software development tools, announced it has acquired Flowdock, a social collaboration hub for teams. Rally’s acquisition of Helsinki-based Flowdock brings unified communication and collaboration to Rally’s Agile ALM platform to keep teams connected and make the status and progress of work transparent. Financial terms of the deal were not […]

Zend, a maker of software for PHP developers, has launched a new version of its application platform and tools for building PHP applications, particularly mobile apps. Zend announced Zend Server 6, the latest version of its application platform for Web and mobile applications. The new release provides tools, processes and infrastructure to enable teams to […]

15,000 B.C. Lascaux Cave drawings found in what is now France use imagery to capture and depict hunting knowledge. 3400 B.C. Hieroglyphics emerge as a sophisticated way to document spoken language. 77 A.D. The first encyclopedia was written by Roman author Pliny, setting the model for organizing and archiving knowledge of the outside world. Late […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache OpenOffice has a value of $21 million a day. ASF officials said Apache OpenOffice has averaged 131,455 downloads per day since its 3.4 release last May. That represents an average value to the public of $21 million per day or $7.61 billion per year, ASF said. Apache […]

Microsoft has kicked off a week of big data news with the results of a survey showing that more than 75 percent of midsize to large businesses are implementing big data-related solutions within the next 12 months. Of those solutions, customer care, marketing and sales departments are increasingly driving demand, according to the new Microsoft […]

Cognos Jan. 31, 2008: IBM completed its acquisition of Cognos, a Canadian company whose products range from business intelligence to financial performance and strategy management to analytics applications. SPSS Oct. 2, 2009: IBM closed its acquisition of SPSS. The purchase of the Chicago company strengthened IBM’s business analytics and optimization strategy by providing predictive analytic […]

IBM’s Watson supercomputer celebrated the second anniversary of its trouncing human competitors on “Jeopardy” with the announcement of two new medical applications aimed at helping battle cancer. In the past year, IBM has partnered separately with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and WellPoint to develop Watson health care products starting in the areas of […]