Darryl K. Taft

You just never know where IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology will pop up next, whether in concierge robots at hotels, as an advisor to cancer patients, as a shopping assistant to consumers or, even now, as an aid in food preparation. It seems like Watson is almost everywhere. IBM today announced that it is collaborating […]

10 Reasons for Enterprises to Adopt OpenStack Flexibility, low cost and openness are just a few of the benefits of OpenStack. Here are other reasons why it is so appealing to the enterprise. Dominant Platform for Private Cloud In a September 2015 brief, Forrester Research called OpenStack “the dominant platform for private cloud.” De Facto […]

IBM has extended the reach of its new Cloud Video unit with a series of new customer wins and product innovations, including snagging entertainment giant Lionsgate and introducing new Aspera software for streaming broadcast-quality video. Big Blue made these announcements at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas on Monday. Launched in […]

Although making progress in its key focus areas, IBM’s first-quarter earnings dropped to $2.01 billion from $2.33 billion for the same period last year while revenues in this interval fell 2 percent from $19.6 billion to $18.7 billion. The first quarter marks the 16th straight quarter that IBM’s revenue has dipped, yet Big Blue remains […]

Industry research firm Ovum gave IBM high marks for its software development capabilities for building hybrid cloud applications. Other industry watchers agree with this assessment although they say that some old perceptions about the company’s role in software persist. Ovum named IBM as a market leader in three areas that are key to creating hybrid […]

Starting next month, Coursera, the education platform that forms partnerships with top universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses online, is teaming up with IBM to develop an online course to teach programming for the Internet of things (IoT). The new course, “A developer’s guide to the Internet of Things (IoT),” is aimed at providing […]

Microsoft today released version 1.0 of its Visual Studio Code lightweight text editor. Initially released in alpha at the Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event in New York as a project code-named Monaco and then tweaked and launched in preview last year at Microsoft’s Build conference as Visual Studio Code, the tool can now claim two […]

Koding, which provides a software development automation platform for developers, has extended its platform for team development. In a blog post welcoming the new “Koding for Teams” environment, Devrim Yasar, CEO and co-founder of Koding, said Koding is “now a development environment as a service that helps you and your team hit the ground coding […]

API platform-as-a service provider Restlet and Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced integration between HPE’s Systinet API management software with the Restlet DHC Web-based testing tool for REST APIs. According to the agreement between the companies, HPE Systinet users will be able to use DHC from within the Systinet graphical user interface to perform test calls […]

NoSQL database provider DataStax has announced its entry into the graph database space with DataStax Enterprise (DSE) Graph. Martin Van Ryswyk, the company’s executive vice president of engineering, described DataStax Enterprise Graph as a scale-out graph database built for cloud applications that need to manage highly connected data. The new offering is built on the […]

IBM and the American Cancer Society (ACS) today announced a partnership to develop a Watson-based advisor for people fighting cancer—to bring the cognitive power of IBM’s Watson, not only to physicians treating cancer, but to those suffering from the disease. IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty announced the collaboration at the 13th Annual World […]