Darryl K. Taft

The Unveiling The first PureSystems family members were announced in April 2012. Rodney Adkins, senior vice president in charge of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, stands beside one of IBM’s new PureSystems at a company lab in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Powder for IBMs new Babies Large quantities of baby powder were sucked through the […]

Mozilla has announced the availability of a new, faster, more personalized version of Firefox for Android. The redesigned mobile browser features performance improvements to speed up everything from startup and page-load times to panning and zooming and Web app performance when you just want to play Mozilla€™s BrowserQuest game with your friends, the company said […]

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has announced the business model and pricing plans for its OpenShift platform as a service (PaaS) offering to provide support to companies in application development and deployment. Available as a free service since May 2011, OpenShift PaaS delivers to developers a cloud application platform with a choice of programming languages, frameworks […]

Don’t Compromise on User Experience Good apps are engaging. They are designed for performance and customized to deliver the functionality your users need in a simple and easy-to-use manner. However, achieving a seamless transition of code across multiple platforms, while maintaining an optimized user experience on each device, is easier said than done. When choosing […]

Syncsort, a provider of high-performance data integration solutions, has announced a new relationship with high-performance computing database and analytics software maker Greenplum to make big data analytics available faster to provide real business value to organizations. Syncsort has announced that it has certified its DMExpress data integration software for high-performance loading of Greenplum database. The […]

Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE) announced that its Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 software is now available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud membership. Lightroom is a digital photography workflow solution that helps amateur and professional photographers quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase images. A new membership-based offering centered around the company€™s design, Web, video and digital imaging […]

IBM and the All England Club recently launched an all-new interactive digital experience for tennis fans, featuring an enhanced Wimbledon Website powered by IBM analytics and cloud computing technology to help fans better track Wimbledon 2012 results, including Venus Williams€™ first first-round defeat in 15 years. The redesigned Wimbledon site enables sports fans on the […]

Red Hat announced that it has added a bunch of new capabilities to its Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) solution. The new version, JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.3, is a comprehensive platform for the development and automation of business processes, including integrated support for business-rules management, business-process management (BPM) and complex event processing (CEP). It […]

Though Hadoop is all the rage in big data circles, it may not be the best solution for all situations and sometimes should be sidelined for alternative solutions, so said a big data expert at a recent event. Dean Wampler, principal consultant at Think Big Analytics, a big data solution integrator, said Hadoop needs to […]

Ten Advantages Java Has Over C++ Garbage Collection Java is known for its garbage collection. Garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim garbage, or memory, occupied by objects that are no longer in use by the program. A significant portion of C++ code is dedicated to […]