Darryl K. Taft

IBM has announced a new analytics appliance that enables users to analyze up to 10 petabytes of data in a matter of minutes, the IBM Netezza High Capacity Appliance. IBM officials said the new technology is designed to help industries uncover patterns and trends from large data sets while meeting compliance mandates. The new IBM […]

IBM has expanded its social business initiative with the release of its new IBM Connections software, which Big Blue identifies as a social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities. IBM launched its social business strategy at the company’s Lotusphere 2011 conference in February as a way to help its customers and partners leverage social networking […]

IBM has announced two new cloud services that enable users to protect, store and retrieve their most critical data in minutes-versus days-in the event of a disaster. The new IBM SmartCloud Resilience services enable customers to protect their data and applications faster, cheaper and in a more flexible manner than they could before within a […]

PolitiFact by St. Petersburg Times PolitiFact helps users find the truth in politics. Created by the St. Petersburg Times, the newspapers reporters and researchers examine statements by members of Congress, the president, cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, people who testify before Congress and anyone else who speaks up in Washington, and then rate the accuracy on the […]

When Scott Farnum of McDonald’s saw the opportunity to move the fast-food chain’s application-development tooling environment to the cloud, he did not hesitate. Farnum, who is global infrastructure lab manager for McDonald’s Corp. and is responsible for the company’s application-development strategy, saw the cloud as a way to cut costs and enhance flexibility for his […]

On June 20, Adobe announced a new Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management, delivering on a new directional push for Adobe. eWEEK senior editor Darryl K. Taft recently connected with Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president and general manager of Digital Enterprise Solutions at Adobe, to get his perspective on the CEM challenges that companies […]

Adobe Systems has announced its new Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management (CEM). Adobe’s new CEM platform enables enterprises to build immersive, multichannel digital interactions for the social and mobile customers of today, Adobe officials said. The new platform is a significant milestone in the delivery of Adobe’s CEM vision, according to Rob […]

Adobe Systems announced a new version of its Flash Builder and Flex technology for developers of smartphone and tablet applications. The company’s new Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software enables developers to build applications for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook, as well as Android devices. Support for Android devices was released in April […]

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. – In celebration of its 100 years in business, IBM employees around the world took part in activities in their respective communities in one collective IBM Centennial Day of Service on June 15. At IBM’s centennial celebration event here on June 16, Stan Litow, IBM’s vice president of corporate citizenship and corporate […]

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.–To celebrate its 100thanniversary IBM threw itself a party and, oh, what a bash it was. In attendance at the signature event here were former IBM CEOs and chairmen, IBM Nobel laureates, IBM board members, CEOs and representatives of IBM’s major customers, former top IBM executives and engineers, more than 20 IBMers who […]

Appcelerator, a mobile cloud platform for rapidly developing native mobile, HTML5, desktop, web and tablet applications using web technologies, has announced the availability of Appcelerator Titanium Studio for building, testing, and deploying cross-platform applications. Titanium Studio offers companies of any size the ability to rapidly create rich cloud-connected applications using their existing web teams and […]

Parasoft, a maker of tools for professional software developers, has announced Parasoft Virtualize, a new platform for creating virtual test environments. Parasoft Virtualize is the company’s fourth generation of Application-Behavior Virtualization (ABV) software, and it helps developers and testers eliminate the testing constraints associated with heterogeneous composite applications. The new Parasoft platform enables organizations to […]