Darryl K. Taft

10 Best Practices for Managing Modern Data in Motion Modern databases need to be managed differently from old-school models. Here are 10 tips for managing data movement in a system. Limit Hand Coding As Much As Possible It has been commonplace to write custom code to ingest data from sources into your data store. This […]

10 Things Every Enterprise Should Ask Its Cloud Collaboration Service Cloud collaboration tools increasingly are becoming mainstream. Here are 10 things enterprises should consider when choosing cloud collaboration tools. External Collaboration Collaboration shouldn’t be confined to the corporate firewall. To succeed, today’s agile enterprise must be able to connect and collaborate seamlessly with external stakeholders […]

Blockchain has the potential to be the most significant technological innovation since the Internet, according to a recent survey of financial services executives. A new study released today from Pegasystems, Cognizant and Marketforce found that 60 percent of global financial services retailers with an understanding of blockchain believe it is potentially game-changing technology. However, that […]

IBM announced a collaboration with cloud communications platform provider Twilio around the company’s Watson cognitive computing technology. At Twilio’s Signal 2016 conference, IBM announced two new offerings, IBM Watson Message Sentiment and IBM Watson Message Insights, which will be available as Add-ons in Twilio’s recently announced marketplace. Patrick Malatack, vice president of product marketing at […]

IBM is applying the strength of its cloud computing platform and its extensive research organization to help combat the Zika virus. Big Blue’s World Community Grid has launched an international study to identify drug candidates to cure Zika, a fast spreading virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency. Known […]

5 Questions to Ask When Choosing Cloud Service Providers Determining which cloud service providers might be the best fit for an organization isn’t easy. Here are five questions to ask. Does This SLA Fit My Needs? A service-level agreement (SLA) only exists to protect you financially. Don’t simply look at percent uptime; technology failures will […]

Appian World 2016 Highlights the Rise of the Citizen Developer At Appian World, Appian released Quick Apps, which enable citizen developers to create enterprise apps in 15 minutes or less with no technical knowledge. Appian CEO Talks Strong Growth Appian CEO Matt Calkins spoke to the more than 1,200 attendees about his company’s strong growth […]

Building on its strategy of taking .NET open-source and cross-platform, Microsoft this week improved the platform by delivering .NET Core Release Candidate 2, which features several enhancements over the previous release. Microsoft also released ASP.NET Core RC2. Developers can use .NET Core RC2 to build ASP.NET Core, console apps and class libraries for Windows, Mac […]

Microsoft announced it is partnering with the open-source Jenkins project to advance the Jenkins software automation platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Microsoft will be working with the Jenkins community to move the Jenkins project infrastructure to Azure to improve security and capacity and to offer more services to the project. The technology giant announced […]

IBM continues to deliver on its pledge to infuse its products with cognitive technology, as Big Blue works to turn both itself and its customers into cognitive businesses. At its Amplify 2016 conference in Tampa, Fla., IBM announced new and expanded solutions and features including cognitive technologies that enable companies to deliver personalized customer experiences. […]

Five IT Tools for Managing Bimodal Enterprise IT Bimodal IT can help companies increase their speed to market without sacrificing stability or quality. Here are five tools for bimodal IT environments. PagerDuty With a rising demand for uptime and speed, it’s more important than ever for today’s businesses to deliver reliable service to customers and […]

An IBM official testified on May 16 before the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cyber Security about the potential for blockchain to become the technology foundation for conducting transactions over the Internet. Jerry Cuomo, IBM’s vice president of blockchain, testified before the commission in New York City, stating that he believes the technology could potentially […]