Darryl K. Taft

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that for the third consecutive year, IDC has ranked Big Blue No. 1 in worldwide market share for enterprise social software. According to IDC’s analysis of 2011 revenue, IBM grew faster than its competitors and nearly two times faster than the overall market which grew approximately 40 percent, IBM said. The […]

An IBM supercomputer has been ranked as the world€™s fastest, according to the Top500 list of the world€™s fastest supercomputers. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on June 18 announced that a supercomputer called Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was ranked the world€™s most powerful computing system. This is the first time since […]

Keeping with its theme of making the Web easier and more familiar for the masses, Mozilla has launched Thimble, a new tool for beginners to learn to create Websites. In a June 18 blog post, Matt Thompson, communications director at Mozilla, said Thimble €œmakes it incredibly simple for anyone to create and share their own […]

In addition to nabbing the world€™s fastest supercomputer title, IBM also can boast producing the first commercial hot-water-cooled supercomputer. IBM announced June 18 that the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), in collaboration with Big Blue has delivered what the company claims is the world’s first commercially available hot-water-cooled supercomputer. The new high-performance system is designed to […]

Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced the availability of Adobe Captivate 6, a significant upgrade to its eLearning authoring software for rapidly creating a wide range of interactive eLearning and HTML5-based mobile Learning content. Adobe said the new release is designed with today€™s mobile learners in mind, as it enables eLearning developers, corporate trainers, educators and […]

Yammer has agreed to an acquisition by Microsoft, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing a source familiar with the deal. The report states that Microsoft will pay upwards of $1.2 billion for Yammer, which brings the power of social networking to the enterprise in a private and secure environment. Rumors have been rampant […]

Continuing along on its run of successfully integrating analytics companies, IBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced the completion of its acquisition of Tealeaf Technology, a provider of digital customer experience management and customer behavior analysis solutions. The acquisition extends IBM€™s Smarter Commerce initiative with qualitative analytics software that helps organizations deliver an optimal digital experience to their […]

Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) has announced Adobe Connect 9, the latest version of the company€™s Web conferencing software for enterprises and government agencies. Adobe Connect 9 delivers an all-in-one solution for producing webinars, as well as innovations in mobile-to-mobile collaboration and mobile learning. Adobe Connect 9 for webinars helps marketers reduce costs and dependency on […]

VMware has announced a new open-source project, dubbed Serengeti, to enable enterprises to quickly deploy, manage and scale Apache Hadoop in virtual and cloud environments. In addition, VMware announced enhancements to Spring for Apache Hadoop as well as integrations with vSphere and Apache Hadoop to deploy a highly available Hadoop platform. VMware is working with […]

ORLANDO, Fla. €” In a broad-ranging keynote at TechEd 2012 set to establish Windows 8 as a viable tool for business, Microsoft demonstrated several key technologies the company hopes will make the upcoming OS welcome in the enterprise. At TechEd North America 2012 here, Microsoft did its best to detail the value Windows 8 brings […]