Darryl K. Taft

Red Hat announced it has extended the production life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years in response to enterprise customer demand. With this move, enterprise customers now have additional deployment alternatives for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system implementations as they plan the future of their […]

IBM announced its plans to acquire Worklight, a move the company says will boost the mobile capabilities of its enterprise clients. IBM signed a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight a privately held Israel-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. IBM officials said with this acquisition, […]

Startup Sumo Logic has emerged from stealth mode to unveil its cloud-based log management and analytics service that leverages big data to deliver real-time IT insights. Sumo Logic’s software-as-a-service (SAAS) solution eliminates the need for expensive premises-based solutions, time-consuming software upgrades and ongoing system maintenance, the company said. Using powerful algorithms, the service provides enterprises […]

Pentaho announced that it has open-sourced its big data analytics tools, known as the Pentaho Kettle project, under the Apache 2.0 license. Pentaho said it has made freely available under open source all of its big data capabilities in the new Pentaho Kettle 4.3 release, and has moved the entire Pentaho Kettle project to the […]

As the need for more IT workers becomes more and more dire, major vendors are making efforts to seed the industry with trained technology staff by reaching out to potential candidates in high school. Lenovo recently announced an effort with the National Academy Foundation to launch a program to help high school students learn mobile […]

Microsoft announced its new BizSpark Plus, an extension to its BizSpark program to help startups get off the ground faster, as well as a new partnership with startup accelerator TechStars to make free cloud computing services available to select, high potential startups. Microsoft and TechStars are working together to help startups fast-track their businesses. On […]

Storage Breakthroughs Nip at -Digital Dark Age’ The volume of digital data will grow to 2.7 zettabytes in 2012, up 48 percent from 2011. Still, digital storage often can be more perishable than paper. Disks corrode, bits rot and hardware becomes obsolete, all of which could create a Digital Dark Age, where digital storage techniques […]

Google is telling Android developers to stop using its Menu button and begin using the Action Bar that was introduced with the Android 3.0 Honeycomb release. Scott Main, lead tech writer for developer.android.com, penned a Jan. 26 blog post titled “Say Goodbye to the menu Button” to help wean developers off the Menu button. Cutting […]

With HTML5 and CSS all the rage with developers, particularly Web developers, a new site has emerged to advise developers on the use of HTML5 and CSS 3 features: HTML5 Please. The HTML Please site, as first reported by Webmonkey, offers up expert advice on which features to use and not use when developing apps. […]

EnterpriseDB, a provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle database compatibility products and services, announced the general availability of the Postgres Plus Cloud Database on Amazon Web Services. Postgres Plus Cloud Database is an enterprise-class PostgreSQL database as a service (DBaaS). EnterpriseDB also announced that CloudBees and Engine Yard have selected Postgres Plus Cloud Database as one […]

Amazon Web Services has announced the AWS Storage Gateway, a service that provides enterprises with a new way to securely upload data to the AWS cloud. The AWS Storage Gateway connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to integrate on-premises IT environments and the AWS storage infrastructure. The new AWS service provides low-latency performance […]

IBM has announced a new analytics appliance that analyzes petabytes worth of big data, including consumer sales data and online shopping trends to help retailers gain insight on buying patterns. The new appliance, the IBM Netezza Customer Intelligence Appliance, is part of IBM’s Smarter Commerce strategy to help its retail clients use analytics to better […]