Darryl K. Taft

Amazon Web Services has announced several enhancements and offers for its customers, including lower prices for its Amazon Simple Storage Solution and Reduced Redundancy Storage, and the addition of auto discovery to Amazon ElastiCache. In its 24th price reduction, AWS reduced Amazon S3 standard storage and Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) prices by 24 to 27 […]

Mobile Office Mobile devices enable small businesses to work flexibly, when and where they want. Using the phone as the office opens the door to remote working, which gives small business owners flexibility in where they work, improves productivity and saves money on physical office space. By 2016, 43 percent of the U.S. workforce will […]

IBM’s opening of a first-of-a-kind Advanced Analytics Solutions Center in Columbus, Ohio, is intended to accelerate innovation and job opportunities by advancing understanding of big data and expanding analytics skills. Big Blue said the center will create 500 new jobs and foster economic competitiveness in the region, and the U.S. broadly, by bringing together IBM […]

Amazon Web Services has announced the limited preview of Amazon Redshift, its new data warehouse in the cloud. Amazon said its new petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud provides a fast and powerful solution that increases the speed of query performance when users are analyzing virtually any size data set, using the same SQL-based […]

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, the first official update for Visual Studio 2012. The update is now available for developers to install. Microsoft said updates to Visual Studio 2012 will be released regularly, on a shorter interval, to keep it aligned with core software development trends in the market, ensuring developers and […]

With more developers beginning to look to the cloud as a development platform, Cloud9 IDE, provider of a cloud-based integrated development environment, has launched a new suite of products for the enterprise. The new suite of products includes a co-branded and on-premise online IDE that enables professional Web and mobile developers in the enterprise to […]

Eucalyptus Systems, a provider of private and hybrid cloud computing software, has announced several new capabilities within its open-source cloud software including new management and storage features. Eucalyptus 3.2 introduces several new features that increase control and management of cloud resources including a new graphical user interface that enables self-service capabilities, simplified cloud administration and […]

In a move that has been a long time in the making, IBM is dropping the Lotus brand and moving forward with the IBM brand, only to identify products like Notes and Domino. IBM plans to deliver a public beta of IBM Notes/Domino 9.0 Social Edition that will not carry the Lotus brand, Ed Brill, […]

To address the growing needs of the mobile enterprise, IBM has expanded its software and services capabilities to provide clients with all of the resources needed to develop a mobile computing strategy. The new offerings build on software IBM attained in its acquisition of Worklight—a privately held Israeli-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and […]

Microsoft released a new preview version of its Internet Explorer 10 browser for Windows 7 Nov. 13. With the IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7, consumers can now enjoy a “fast and fluid” Web with the updated IE10 engine on their Windows 7 devices. IE10 is the default browser on Windows 8 and is built […]