Darryl K. Taft

IBM and the United States Tennis Association have teamed up to deliver new technologies for tennis fans watching the 2012 US Open tennis tournament. During the two-week event, IBM will apply its predictive analytics, cloud computing and mobile technology expertise to connect tennis fans to what is happening on the courts at the USTA Billie […]

New Relic, a SaaS-based cloud application performance management provider, has announced Windows support for New Relic Server Monitoring. New Relic Server Monitoring is a core capability of the company’s free SaaS, or software as a service, application performance management (APM) tool that gives users visibility into server resource utilization as well as deeper insight into […]

AppFog, provider of a polyglot platform as a service for cloud-based application deployment and management, has announced its acquisition of Nodester, the provider of a PaaS for the Node.js environment. Lucas Carlson, CEO of AppFog, said the move not only further consolidates the PaaS industry, but also enhances AppFog’s large active community of developers. AppFog […]

Most Americans are confused by the term “the cloud” and do not associate it with the IT business, according to a new survey. The national survey by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix, showed that most respondents believe the cloud is related to weather, while some referred to pillows, drugs and toilet paper. However, even those […]

Adobe Systems has announced a new set of Adobe Illustrator features exclusively for Adobe Creative Cloud members. Adobe officials said these new features come ahead of the September release of new Adobe Dreamweaver features and the addition of the Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition to Adobe Creative Cloud. Delivering on the promise that Creative Cloud […]

IBM has announced a new mainframe system, the zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server. Big Blue calls its new mainframe the most powerful and technologically advanced version of an IBM system that has been the linchpin of enterprise computing for 48 years. The new enterprise system, unveiled on Aug. 28, features technologies that demonstrate IBM’s ongoing commitment […]

Cryptographic Support zEC12 includes a state-of-the-art, tamper-resistant cryptographic coprocessor called Crypto Express4S, which provides privacy for transactions and sensitive data. Crypto Express4S includes new firmware developed with IBM Research to meet the security requirements of different industries and geographies. For example, it can be configured to provide support for high-quality digital signatures used with applications […]

IBM announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire social business company Kenexa for approximately $1.3 billion. The deal, announced Aug. 27, is aimed at bolstering Big Blue’s ability to help its customers embrace social business capabilities while gaining actionable insights from the enormous streams of information generated from social networks. Wayne, Pa.-based […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has launched a new initiative that will standardize OData, a REST-based protocol that simplifies the querying and sharing of data across applications for reuse in the enterprise, cloud and mobile devices. OData, largely developed at Microsoft, enables information to be accessed from a variety of […]

Microsoft announced that Santa Clara County, Calif., is the latest cloud customer to adopt the company’s Office 365 solution. Santa Clara County announced it will upgrade and consolidate its multiple, countywide email systems as part of its ongoing efforts to transform its operations, improve the quality and efficiency of its services to county residents and […]