Darryl K. Taft

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that Twitter has joined the foundation. In addition to Twitter, the Linux Foundation also announced that Inktank and Servergy have also become members. “Linux and its ability to be heavily tweaked is fundamental to our technology infrastructure,” said Chris Aniszczyk, […]

Typesafe, provider of a Scala-based software stack, announced it closed a $14 million Series B round of funding led by Shasta Ventures. In addition to the funding, Typesafe appointed Shasta Ventures Managing Director Jason Pressman to its board. Other investors that participated in the new round include Juniper Networks through its Junos Innovation Fund, as […]

ServiceMesh, provider of an enterprise-grade cloud management platform, has announced its DevOps Accelerator solution, which enables enterprise customers to accelerate the pace and frequency of their software releases. The ServiceMesh DevOps Accelerator solution helps align software development and IT operations teams with a practical starting point to implement DevOps within the enterprise to remove software […]

Amazon Web Services recently announced a new service known as Amazon Glacier, which enables users to store data at low cost-as low as 1 cent per gigabyte per month. As with all AWS services, you pay for what you use. There is no up-front fee; users simply pay for the storage they use, said AWS […]

Two-Thirds Two-thirds of Americans access the Web through mobile devices, according to Engine Yard research. Thirty-Four Percent And 34 percent of the world’s top 100 Websites are using HTML5. The Rise of the Real-Time Web Engine Yard says the growth of mobile plus the popularity of HTML5 equals the rise of the real-time Web. And […]

Google has released a new JavaScript benchmark suite known as Octane. In a blog post about the new benchmark, Stefano Cazzulani, a Google product manager, said the Web is evolving and so should the JavaScript benchmarks that measure its performance. Octane, he said, is Google’s way of measuring a browser’s performance when running the complex […]

OpenLogic, a provider of open-source scanners, open-source governance solutions and community-backed open-source support for the data center and the cloud, said it has seen an increase in open-source license compliance among mobile apps. OpenLogic announced the results of a source-code scan and license compliance assessment of 66 leading mobile applications containing open-source software, showing that […]

Engine Yard, provider of a multi-language platform as a service (PaaS) offering, has announced the general availability of Node.js on Engine Yard Cloud. Node.js is a popular JavaScript-based framework for building highly scalable, real-time Web applications. It uses JavaScript-the language of the browser-to unify development of front-end and server-side architectures. Engine Yard Cloud is a […]

Adobe has announced a roadmap for its Adobe Creative Cloud as well as an update of its Muse design tool. The recently released Adobe Muse, for graphic designers who want to create Websites without writing code, has received a new product update that further expands on its capabilities for planning, designing and publishing original HTML […]

IBM announced the opening of its Natural Resources Industry Solutions Lab (NRIS Lab) in Sao Paulo celebrating yet another lab Big Blue has installed in emerging markets. IBM also recently announced a new research lab in Kenya. IBM said its new Brazilian lab will help mining, oil and gas companies use innovative technology to meet […]