Darryl K. Taft

ActiveState, which supports dynamic language app development from code to cloud, has announced the release of Komodo IDE 7.1, the latest version of its polyglot programming integrated development environment. With the tag line as the €œworld€™s fiercest IDE,€ Komodo is an integrated development environment for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl and Web development. Komodo IDE […]

PORTLAND, Ore. €” Morphlabs , a provider of dynamic infrastructure services for the enterprise, has launched the mCloud Helix, a new converged private cloud infrastructures for enterprise IT consumers. The mCloud Helix, a compact, scalable and efficient form of private cloud infrastructure, is powered by the open-source OpenStack cloud computing platform, and combines high performance […]

SEATTLE €” Cloud computing leader Amazon Web Services shed a little more light on its upcoming first-ever user conference, re:Invent, which will be held in Las Vegas at the end of November. The re:Invent conference, which will run Nov. 27 through 29 at Las Vegas€™ Venetian casino and resort, will host AWS customers from around […]

Blue Gene/Q This machine, Victoria Life Sciences Computation Initiative’s IBM Blue Gene/Q at the University of Melbourne, is helping researchers search for a cure for the common cold. Scale The profile of the IBM Blue Gene/Q system and the University of Melbourne illustrates a formidable machine, one of the most powerful in the world. The […]

SEATTLE €” With its first-ever AWS re:Invent conference coming up in November, Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants the world to know it is focused on the developer. As in so many platform battles, the way to the lead is through the developers that build applications and create businesses and services that run on that platform. […]

IBM technology is helping fight the common cold. Researchers in Melbourne, Australia, are now simulating in 3D the motion of the complete human rhinovirus (HRV), the most frequent cause of the common cold, using Australia€™s fastest supercomputer, an IBM Blue Gene/Q. A new antiviral drug to treat rhinovirus infections is being developed by Melbourne company […]

OpenStack, a popular open-source platform for public and private clouds, celebrates its second anniversary this week. The O€™Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) will hold an €œOpenStack Day€ to help celebrate the milestone. The OpenStack mission is to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware. OpenStack is used by […]

Mass of Contributors OpenStack community officials say Linux is a great example of an open-source technology that has been widely adopted. However, comparatively, OpenStack has been and is being adopted and supported faster than Linux. For instance, OpenStack reached the same amount of contributors as Linux in one-seventh the time. Contributing Companies OpenStack reached the […]

The Business Software Alliance applauded the recent indictment of Baltimore resident Naveed Sheikh, who illegally sold more than 1,000 copyrighted commercial software programs from BSA members Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and others that totaled a retail value of more than $4 million. From 2004-2008, Sheikh led a conspiracy that involved recruiting and compensating individuals running multiple […]

The Application Developers Alliance announced four new members€”Flurry, Twilio, Ooomf and Meemo€”as corporate partners joining the alliance€™s 8,000 individual developers and 90 companies. The Washington, D.C.-based alliance is an industry association that advocates for application developers and helps foster the apps ecosystem. €œWe are thrilled to welcome Flurry, Twilio, Meemo and Ooomf to our membership,€ […]